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Selected Paper Presentations

"The Agree-relation in two types of imperatives in Cantonese", GLOW in Asia XIV, Chinese University of Hong Kong. March 8, 2024. [poster]

“Visual cognition of contextual allography: an eye-movement study of the interword spacing effect in Arabic”, Department of English, American University of Sharjah. March 21, 2022.

“Emirati Arabic linguistics: Past, present, and future”, Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference (EXAL 2021), Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Dubai, UAE. April 4, 2021. (with Dimitrios Ntelitheos)

“From Emirati Arabic grammar to Emirati Arabic dictionary.” Workshop on The New Arabic Lexicon: Challenges of unity, diversity and curriculum. Arabic Language Center of Excellence, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, UAE. March 22-23, 2021. (with Meera Al Kaabi and Dimitrios Ntelitheos)

“Eye Movement, Word Recognition, and Phonological Awareness”, School of Foreign Languages, Ludong University, November 28, 2019.

“Eye Movement Research Methods and Language Processing”, College of International Studies, Yangzhou University, August 5, 2019.

“Interdisciplinary research between theoretical and experimental linguistics”, Jiangsu University, May 30, 2019.

“Eye movement and language processing research. College of Foreign Languages, Jiangsu University, May 30, 2019.

“Where syntactic theory meets grammaticalization: An analysis of semi-complementizers in Cantonese”, Department of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, January 18, 2019.

“The syntactic function of the Cantonese ‘semi-complementizer’”, School of Linguistics Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou. July 6th, 2018.

“Element Theory for Syntax”, Arezzo, Italy. June 20-24, 2016.

“Sluicing may repair LF-constraints”, The Forty-Eighth Annual Conference of Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS-48), University of Chicago, IL. April 19th-21st, 2012. [handout]

"Panelist in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Parallel Domains: a Workshop in Honor of the Work of Jean-Roger Vergnaud," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. May 5-7th, 2011. (invited talk)

(2011) (with Aamna Shemeili) “Making the First Step Correct in Syntax - Evidence from Emirati Arabic Sluicing”, The Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS-47), University of Chicago, IL. April 7-9th, 2011. [handout]

(2011) “Modes of interrogatives entail modes of sluicing - evidence from Emirati Arabic”, The Twenty Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ALS-25), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 4th-6th, 2011.  

“Typology of chain repair”, Workshop on Chains in Minimalism. Yokohama National University, Japan. February 12th-13th, 2011. [handout]

“The independence between movement and reconstruction: evidence from wh-constructions in Emirati Arabic”, GLOW in ASIA VIII, Beijing University, China. August 2010. [handout]

“Wh-fronting and wh-cleft in Emirati Arabic”, Seminar talk, Department of Linguistics, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain. May 17th, 2010. 

“On two types of wh-constructions in Emirati Arabic”, The Forty-Sixth Annual Conference of Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS-46), University of Chicago, IL. April 10th, 2010. [handout]

“Wh-Constructions in Emirati Arabic and the Nature of Syntactic Constraints”, Syntax + (Invited talk), Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California. April 5th, 2010. 

“Conditional agreement and feature matrix in Amharic”, The First Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL), Brisbane, Australia. Sep 11th-13th, 2009. [handout]

“Mood feature as case licensor in Modern Standard Arabic”, The Twentieth-Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ALS-23), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Apr 3rd-5th, 2009. 

“Wh-phrasal movement and the adjunction analysis of free relatives”, The Seventh GLOW in Asia Conference, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Feb 25th-28th, 2009. [handout]

“Negations in Sha'm Shehhi Arabic”, Linguistics in the Gulf 2, Qatar University, Doha. Mar 11th-12, 2009. [handout]

“What is so Special about Structural Case in Modern Standard Arabic?”, Department Seminar, Department of Linguistics, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain.

“The comparative correlative construction in Standard Arabic.”, The Ninth Annual Research Conference (ARC-9), United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain. [powerpoint slides]

“On the mathematical foundations of crash-proof syntax.”, Conference on Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN 

“On correlative constructions: a typological and theoretical perspective.”, Invited talk given in Department of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 

“On the typology of correlative constructions”, The Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Association  of Linguistic Typology (ALV VII). Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. (handout)

“Phonology in Syntax", Proceedings of the Ninth Seoul International Conference of Generative Grammar (SICOGG-9), Kwangwoon University, Seoul. (handout) 

“Correlatives and the conditions on chain formation”, International Conference on Linguistics in Korea (ICLK 2007). Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (handout) 

“Free Relatives and their implication for cyclic derivation”, The 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG7), Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. (handout) 

“Typology and universals of comparative correlatives”, The Sixth International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Padang Indonesia. (handout) 

“Thai ying and the syntax-semantics interface of comparative correlatives”, The Fourteenth Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XIV), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. (handout)