Splitting the Imperative: What prohibitives tell us about the morpho-syntax of imperatives and negation. Invited talk at the ComSyn Lecture series, Leiden, June 26. Handout
The Negative Imperative Clash: why most languages cannot negate an imperative. Invited talk at 77. Studentischen Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). Universität Leipzig, May 15-18. Handout
The Subjecthood Requirement in Impersonal Pronouns. The view from Japanese. Invited talk at Bielefeld, June 26
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.
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
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
Coming to the party late: On the timing and limitations of word building, Oberseminar English Linguistics, Göttingen, 24 November
Words within words: the internal syntax of verbs, NYU Syntax Brown Bag, April 19
Together Alone: The underlying structure of Person Portmanteaux Agreement, Grammar and Cognition, UvA, 15 June.
How impersonal does one get? A study of man-pronouns in Germanic. ACLC seminar lecture, Amsterdam, 26 June.
Van Dialecten word je wijzer, Colloquium Bachelor Dutch Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, 23 May (Dutch).
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
Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification. DGfS, March 2025. With Nadja Fiebig, Sören Tebay and Philipp Weisser
Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification. NELS 55, Yale. With Nadja Fiebig, Sören Tebay and Philipp Weisser
Explaining the Size-Height Correlation, Myopia in Grammar Workshop, Leipzig, 13-14
June 2024. with Nadja Fiebig, Sören Tebay and Philipp Weisser
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
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
The blocking effect of Negation on Initial Change: Rescue by affix deletion, The 53rd Algonquian Conference, Carleton University. With Ksenia Bogomolets, Adrian Stegovec
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Micro-variation as a tool for linguistic analysis, BCGL7, Brussels. With Jan Don, Olaf Koeneman