2024
Event roles and binding theory: The view from English prepositional phrases. Colloquium at Rutgers University. [slides]
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]
2025
Argument sharing as a syntactic dependency (with Iva Kovač and Susi Wurmbrand). Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective (workshop), 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 47).
The cause and effect of English reflexivization. 99th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025). [slides]
2024
Event roles and English reflexivization. 15th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2024 Paris). [slides]
Close vs. cloze: The role(s) of contact and expectancy in English pronoun preferences. 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). 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]