Presentations
2024
A minimally sufficient account of minimal sufficiency. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, June 19.
Capturing degree uses of even. Talk presented at the 16th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Workshop in Semantics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, May 11.
2023
BACK: A postural gesture of surprise. Talk presented at the DGfS workshop on creativity and routine in linguistic feedback, University of Cologne, March 9 2023.
Even in presupposition denials. Talk presented at the University of Ottawa, January 25 2023.
2022
(with Patrick Georg Grosz and Pritty Patel-Grosz) The throwing away gesture: discourse management in the visual-gestural modality. Poster presented at SALT 32, Mexico City, Mexico (hybrid), June 8 2022.
(with Patrick Georg Grosz and Pritty Patel-Grosz) Analyzing the throwing away gesture as a common ground management device. Talk presented at the DGfS workshop Visual Communication: New theoretical and empirical developments (ViCom), Universität Tübingen (virtual), February 24 2022.
2021
Actually and the marking of (un)controversiality. Talk presented at LingORG (virtual). March 15 2021.
2020
(with Shuli Jones, Leo Rosenstein, and Martin Hackl) On the acquisition of either and too. Talk presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 1, University of Pennsylvania (virtual), September 16 2020.
Objecting to discourse moves with gestures. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 25 - Special session on gesture and natural language semantics, Queen Mary University of London and University College London (virtual), September 2 2020.
2019
Objecting to discourse moves: Presupposition denials with even and beyond. Super Linguistics Colloquium, University of Oslo, September 29.
(with Shuli Jones, Leo Rosenstein, and Martin Hackl) The path to polarity sensitivity: Acquisition of either and too. Talk presented at Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, September 9.
Licensing free choice any on an existential semantics for imperatives. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück, September 4.
Free choice any in imperatives. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, UBC, Vancouver, BC, June 1.
(with Leo Rosenstein and Martin Hackl) L1 acquisition of polarity sensitivity: The case of either and too. Poster presented at CUNY 32, Boulder, CO, March 29.
2018
Imperatives under even. Talk presented at NELS 49, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 7.
Presupposition-denying uses of even. Talk presented at SALT 28, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 19.
On even in presupposition denials. Poster presented at GLOW 41, Budapest, April 10.
2016
Modal scope in negative inversion constructions. Talk presented at WCCFL 34, Salt Lake City, UT, April 29.
Scope in negative inversion constructions: Evidence from positive polarity item modals. Talk presented at GLOW 39, Göttingen, April 5.
2015
A curious pattern in future-oriented if only conditionals. Talk presented at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, November 21.
2014
Predicates of personal taste, faultless disagreement, and the ideal judge. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, May 24.
This predicate is tasty: Predicates of personal taste, faultless disagreement, and the ideal judge. Talk presented at the 7th Toronto – Ottawa – Montreal Workshop in Semantics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, April 12.
2013
The marking of future uncertainty in Nata. Poster presented at the meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 2.
2012
(with Jamie Ma and Bryan Gick) Aerotactile acuity as a predictor of sibilant contrast. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Banff, AB, October 11.