Presentations

2023

Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology in the Sinhala verb. FoRiM, Harvard University, September 15

Word-internal domains and Vowel Harmony: a close look at prefixes and suffixes. Morphology Circle, Penn State University, September 11 

Parametrizing the size of verbal domains across modules. The view from Japanaese and Sinhala. Verbal Domain Workshop, Newcastle University, June 2023.

2022

Words (a)cross domains. Syntactic and phonological domain effects in Japanese and Sinhala. Colloquium, Cornell University

Words (a)cross domains. Syntactic and phonological domain effects in Japanese and Sinhala. SynSem Colloquium, Potsdam

2021

I’m sticking with you. What phonology can tell us about the syntax of multiple agree, Keynote speaker at Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 19-20 May 2021

Coming to the party late: On the timing and limitations of word building, SyntaxLab, Cambridge University, 9 February

2020

Coming to the party late: On the timing and limitations of word building, Oberseminar English Linguistics, Göttingen, 24 November

2019

Words within words: the internal syntax of verbs,  NYU Syntax Brown Bag, April 19

2018

Together Alone: The underlying structure of Person Portmanteaux Agreement, Grammar and Cognition, UvA, 15 June.

2015

How impersonal does one get? A study of man-pronouns in Germanic. ACLC seminar lecture, Amsterdam, 26 June.

2013

Van Dialecten word je wijzer, Colloquium Bachelor Dutch Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, 23 May (Dutch).

2012

Micro-varation as a tool for linguistic analysis, Syntax-interface meetings, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS), Utrecht University, 29 October. With Jan Don, Olaf Koeneman

2023

Words (a)cross domains. Lessons from Japanese verbs. NELS 53, Göttingen.

Matching locality domains across modules. A case study from Sinhala. NELS 53, Göttingen. With Philipp Weisser

2022

Morphosyntactic constraints on phonological dominance, IMM 20, Budapest. With Jonathan Bobaljik and Maria Kouneli 

Syntactic limitations on phonological dominance, WCCFL 40, Stanford University. With Jonathan Bobaljik and Maria Kouneli

Limits of umlaut in Sinhala. Matching domains across syntax, morphology, and phonology, GLOW 45, QMUL. With Philipp Weisser

Limits of umlaut in Sinhala, talk at (F)ASAL 12, University of Utah. With Philipp Weisser

2021

The blocking effect of Negation on Initial Change: Rescue by affix deletion, The 53rd Algonquian Conference, Carleton University. With Ksenia Bogomolets, Adrian Stegovec

2019

One Classy number: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German, NELS 50, MIT. With Gísli Rúnar Harðarson

A n(umber) of things: linking morphemes in Dutch and German. Poster at CGSW 34. With Gísli Rúnar Harðarson

Sometimes two heads are better than one: Person portmanteaux meet person constraints. LSA.  With Adrian Stegovec. hand-out

2018

Size matters: auxiliary formation in the morpho-syntax and morpho-phonology, NELS 49, Cornell. 

Just take a number! On linking morphemes in Dutch, IMM 18, Budapest. With Gísli Rúnar Harðarson

Your ns are numbered! On linking morphemes in Dutch, LSA. With Gísli Rúnar Harðarson

2017

Multiple agreeing persons is not that special: restrictions on person portmanteaux, PLC 41.

Unifying V-C movement in Algonquian and Germanic: A view from the outliers, PLC 41. With Ksenia Bogomolets, Adrian Stegovec

Multiple agreeing persons is not that special: restrictions on person portmanteaux, GLOW 40, Leiden.

Unifying V-C movement in Algonquian and Germanic: A view from the outliers, GLOW 40, Leiden. With Ksenia Bogomolets, Adrian Stegovec

Two agreeing heads does not make you special: Restrictions on person portmanteaux. BLS 43.

Being exceptional is important for the whole family: Agreement paradigms in Algonquian. BLS 43. With Ksenia Bogomolets, Adrian Stegovec

2016

Arapaho, the English of Algonquian: V-C movement and its effect on agreement paradigms. NELS 47, UMass. With Ksenia Bogomolets, Adrian Stegovec

The case of impersonal pronouns. Speed talk at CamCOS 5, Cambridge. 

2015

Why Dutch men need to get high. On the syntactic distribution of dedicated impersonal pronouns, CGSW, Chigago.

Why Dutch men need to get high The syntactic distribution of impersonal pronouns, GLAC, Provo.

Dutch men must Agree (while Frisian men need not), Conference on R-impersonals, CNRS/Paris 8. 

2014

Stress and categorial flexibility of affixes as a consequence of morphological structure, NELS 45, MIT. With Ava Creemers, Jan Don

Categorial multifunctionality and stress (in)sensitivity of affixes, IMM, Budapfest. With Ava Creemers, Jan Don 

2013

A syntactic approach to stress-(in)sensitivity and (non-)flexibility of affixes, Morfologiedagen. With Ava Creemers, Jan Don  

Restricting language change through micro-comparative analysis, GLOW 36 Lund. With Jan Don, Olaf Koeneman

2012

Micro-variation as a tool for linguistic analysis, BCGL7, Brussels. With Jan Don, Olaf Koeneman