Publications and Talks
Selected papers and handouts.
Under review
with Hadil Karawani. Aspects of aspect in counterfactuals. In Tense and Aspect in Counterfactuals.
To appear
with Suzana Fong. A-dependencies. In The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax.
The Augment. In The Oxford Handbook of Bantu Linguistics.
Cyclicity. In The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program.
2022
Overt subjects and agreement in Zulu infinitives. In Sibanda, Galen, Deo Ngonyani, Jonathan Choti, and Ann Biersteker, eds., Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press, p 195-209.
2021
Licensing external arguments: some Bantu case puzzles revisited. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 51-2). University of Florida. April 2021.
2019
How to be an embedded clause: say-complementizers in Bantu. In Bochnak, Ryan, Miriam Butt, Erlinde Meertens, and Mark-Matthias Zymla, eds., Proceedings of TripleA 5: Fieldwork perspectives on the semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian languages. Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Publikationssystem, p. 31-46.
Raising, unphased. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-9407-2
2018
with Michael Diercks. More on have and need. In African Linguistics on the Prairie: Selected Proceedings from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
2017
with Carter Griffith. CPs in North Azeri: New evidence for extraposition. In Proceedings of WAFL 10. MITWPL, Cambridge, MA
Existential crisis: The curious case of borrowed adjectives in Zulu. In Halpert, Claire, Hadas Kotek, and Coppe Van Urk, eds., A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky, 411-420. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
with Bronwyn Bjorkman. In an imperfect world: deriving the typology of counterfactual marking. In Ana Arregui, Mara Luisa Rivero and Andres Pablo Salanova, eds, Modality across syntactic categories. Oxford University Press.
Prosody/syntax mismatches in the Zulu conjoint/disjoint alternation. In Hyman, Larry and Jenneke van der Wal, eds., The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu, Trends in Linguistics series. Mouton de Gruyter.
2016
Surmountable barriers. ACAL 47, UC Berkeley. March 24, 2016. (handout)
Raising parameters. Proceedings of WCCFL 33, ed. Kim et al. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 186-195.
2015
Argument licensing and agreement. Oxford University Press. (publisher page, Google books)
with Jochen Zeller. Right dislocation and raising-to-object in Zulu. The Linguistic Review, 32(3), 475–513. DOI 10.1515/tlr-2014-0029.
2014
Licensing and vP in Bantu. University of Chicago Workshop on Languge Variation and Change (handout).
with Maria Stolen. Fixed aspect in Amharic conditionals. LSA annual meeting (handout).
2013
with David Schueler. That sentential subjects are (linked to) DPs is explained herein. Snippets.
Structural case and the nature of vP in Zulu. In Proceedings of NELS42. GLSA: Amherst, MA.
with Bronwyn Bjorkman. In search of (im)perfection: the illusion of counterfactual aspect. In Proceedings of NELS42. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
2012
Argument licensing and agreement in Zulu. PhD dissertation, MIT.
Overlap-driven consequences of nasal place assimilation. In Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, Mooshammer, Pouplier, Hoole, and Kühnert, eds. Mouton de Gruyter.
Case, agreement, EPP, and information structure: a quadruple dissociation in Zulu. In Proceedings of WCCFL29, Choi et al, eds. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
with Hadil Karawani. Aspect in counterfactuals from A(rabic) to Z(ulu). In Proceedings of WCCFL29, Choi et al, eds. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Zulu counterfactuals in and out of conditionals. In Selected Proceedings of ACAL 41, Connell and Rolle, eds. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2011
Zulu counterfactuals in and out of conditionals: consequences for counterfactual typology. MIT Generals paper.
2009
Superiority effects in Zulu and Kinande inversion. Bantu3, Tervuren, Belgium, March 25-28. (handout)
Light verb constructions and case patterns in Uyghur. Ms., MIT.