Presentations

2023

Expectancy and pronoun use in English locative prepositional phrases. Binding Group at UMass Amherst (BUMASA). [slides]

Beyond binding conditions: Pronoun choice in English and Mandarin prepositional phrases. Presented at Harvard Language & Cognition. [slides]

Who, What, and Where: Event rolls and pronoun choice in English locative prepositional phrases. Presented at the University of Vienna (virtual). [slides]

Complex events in first-phase syntax. Presentation at the Princeton University Ling Lunch. [slides]

Event structure and English pronoun choice. Colloquium at the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. [slides] [video]

Voice restructuring and its semantics (with Iva Kovač and Susi Wurmbrand). Presentation in a workshop on Restructuring in Austronesian (virtual). [handout]

Binding in English locative prepositional phrases. Presentation at Penn Syntax Lab. [slides]

Clausal complementation: The view from Oromo. Presentation at NYU Syntax Brown Bag. [handout]

Offline judgments in experimental syntax. Guest lecture in Ling 535: Experimental Methods at Rutgers University. [slides]

2024 

Close vs. cloze: The role(s) of contact and expectancy in English pronoun preferences. Talk at the 54th Annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 54). [abstract] [slides]

Comparing reflexive and personal pronouns in Chinese locative prepositional phrases (with Jiaxing Yu). Talk at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2024). [abstract] [slides]

2023

Forward, Backward, Crossed: Voice restructuring and its semantics (with Iva Kovač and Susi Wurmbrand). 53rd Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 53). [poster] [handout]

2022

Expectation as a predictor of pronoun acceptability in English Prepositional Phrases. 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2022). [poster]

Location, location, location: Anaphora selection in English locative prepositional phrases. 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2022). [abstract] [slides]

2021

A minimalist account of Balinese binding (with Deniz Satik). 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL39). [poster]

Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies. 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2021). (Student Abstract Award - 2nd place) [slides]

2020

Demystifying Picture Noun Anaphors (with Isabelle Charnavel). 38th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL38). [poster]

Situation types in complementation: Oromo attitude predication (with Diti Bhadra). Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30. [slides] [recording]

2019

Representing Self: the effects of creator role on binding into Picture Noun Phrases (with Isabelle Charnavel). 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS55). [slides]