Presentations (handouts and posters)

2024

The mass-count distinction in Seri (wtih Robert Henderson). August 2024. SLE, Helsinki, Finland.
Feature reinterpretation as a source of morphomes: the case of scalar morphology in Seri (with Helen Sims-Williams and Matthew Baerman). August 2024. IMM 21, Vienna, Austria.
Paradigmatic complexity as diachronic layering (with Helen Sims-Williams and Matthew Baerman). August 2024. LLCD 2024, Paris, France.
Scalar Morphology: how linguistic complexity can become redundant, yet be actively maintained by analogy (with Helen Sims-Williams and Matthew Baerman). May 2024. Evolang, Madison, USA.
Pluralia tantum nouns in Seri: constraints on uninterpreted plurals (with Robert Henderson). May 2024. "Syntactic Expletives and (non-)compositionality" workshop (org. Jesse Tseng), LLING, Nantes, France.
Workshop "An areal exploration of plural systems of the indigenous languages of Northwest Mexico and the Southwest United States" (co-organized with Heidi Harley and Robert Henderson). January 2024. SSILA 2024, New York, US.
Pluralia tantum nouns in Seri (with Robert Henderson). January 2024. "An areal exploration of plural systems of the indigenous languages of Northwest Mexico and the Southwest United States" workshop, SSILA 2024, New York, US.

2023

Distributive numerals in Seri (invited). November 2023. Workshop on distributive numerals, CNRS & U. Paris 8, Paris, France.
Reduplication across categories: a first look at numerals and verbs in Karata. October 2023. South Caucasian Chalk Circle 3, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
How analogical change can perpetuate a typologically rare morphological system (with M. Baerman and H. Sims-Williams). 2023 meeting of the Indo-European Society. University of Köln, Germany.
Imperfective tenses in Karata (Nakh-Daghestanian). September 2023. IMMOCAL workshop, Paris, France.
Scalar plurality, a rare type of morphology-semantics mapping (Invited). June 2023. TripleA 10, Potsdam, Germany.
On the syntax and semantics of -etz in Souletin Basque (with Irantzu Epelde and Ricardo Etxepare). June 2023, PaRL project workshop. Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France.

2022

The Kazakh progressive construction and the odd behavior of motion verbs (with David Gyorfi). Nov 4, 2022. NAMED 2022, Kyoto, Japan.
Reduplication in Karata numerals and verbs (Nakh-Daghestanian) as cross-categorial pluractionality. June 29, 2022. TripleAFLA. The University of Manchester, UK.
Survey of the Cmiique Iitom (Seri) Language (with Megan Harvey and Debora Perales). April 15, 2022. Symposium on American Indian Languages, University of Arizona, USA.
Pluriactionnalité et paradigme verbal en séri (with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr). March 24, 2022 CLLE - Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France.

2021

Can analogy account for relative features in Seri verbs? (with Matthew Baerman and Helen Sims-Williams). November 2021. Surrey Linguistic Circle.
Distributivity in Seri verbs and nouns as cross-categorial pluractionality (with Matthew Baerman and Carolyn O'Meara). October 2021. NELS 52, Rutgers University, USA.
Dependent pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman) (with Robert Henderson and John Powell). September 2021. Sinn und Bedeutung 26, University of Cologne, Germany.
Degree constructions in Seri (isolate) (with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr). September 2021. Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, Greece.
Adaptive analogy in Word-and-Paradigm morphology: the case of Seri (isolate) verbs (with Matthew Baerman and Helen Sims-Williams). September 2021. Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, Greece.
Scalar cross-domain plurality in Seri is recursive plurality (with Matthew Baerman and Carolyn O'Meara). August 2021. American International Morphology Meeting 5, Ohio State University, USA.
Pluractionality and nominal possession in Seri (with Matthew Baerman and Carolyn O'Meara). June 2021. Number categories workshop. Bremen, Germany.
Tense, aspect, and evidentiality in Karata (Nakh-Daghestanian). May 2021. Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Dependent pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman) (with Robert Henderson and John Powell). April 2021. WCCFL 39, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

2020

Pluractionality and Distributivity on the Edge of Mesoamerica (with Robert Henderson and John W. W. Powell). December 2020. WLMA workshop, UCSC, Santa Cruz, USA.
A unique operator for verbal pluractionality and numeral distributivity. October 2020. Third Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Moscow, Russia
Adaptive analogy in Word-and-Paradigm morphology (with Matthew Baerman and Helen Sims-Williams). September 2020. Workshop "How to fill a cell: computational approaches to inflectional morphology." University of York, York, U.K.
A unique operator for verbal pluractionality and numeral distributivity. September 2020. Sinn und Bedeutung, London, U.K
Roundtable on the methodology of semantic fieldwork (invited). September 2020. Sinn und Bedeutung, London, U.K.
Pluractional numerals in Seri: eventuality individuation and distributivity. August 2020. Semantics And Linguistic Theory (SALT), Ithaca, USA.
Two types of pluractionality in Seri (with P. Cabredo Hofherr). August 2020. Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Distributive numerals in Seri require the individuation of numeral states. August 2020. Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Pluractionality in Seri as derived lexical aspect (Cmiique Iitom, isolate, Sonora, Mexico) (with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr). Postponed. Chronos 14, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
Pluractionality across domains. April 2020. Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

2019

Multidimensional features with linear morphology: the case for an independent morphological level of representation (with M. Baerman). 16-17 December 2019. Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 12, Brussels, Belgium.
La pluriactionnalité à travers les catégories. December 2019. SynSem seminar. University of Nantes, Nantes, France.
Pluractional numerals: distributivity and event individuation. December 2019. Surrey Morphology Group. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Quantification At a Distance and Grammatical Illusions (work with B. Dillon and L. Frazier). October 2019. North East Linguistic Society, Boston, USA.
Nominal and verbal plurality (in Seri): an overview. October 2019. Colloquium on Verbal and Nominal Plurality (program available here). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City.
Proyectos en cmiique iitom (work with Debora Perales). October 2019. Diálogo para el fortalecimiento de proyectos lingüísticos en pueblos originarios de México. [Dialogue for the strengthening of linguistic projects by the peoples of Mexico.] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. Program available here.
Multiple event marking in the Seri verbal paradigm (work with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr). September 2019. International Symposium of Morphology, Paris, France.
Pluractional numerals in Seri are distributive. September 2019. Linguistics Society of Great Britain, London, U.K.
Polar particle responses preserve scope-relations. September 2019. Sinn und Bedeutung, Osnabrück, Germany.
Diagnosing pluractionality: the view from Seri (work with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr). August 2019. Societas linguistica Europaea meeting, Leipzig, Germany.
Extraparadigmatic inflection in Seri (work with Matthew Baerman). June 2019. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Polar responses to quantified utterances. London Semantics Day. May 2019. Queen Mary University, London, UK.
Pluractionality across subject number in Seri. (work with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr). March 2019. LACITO, Paris, France.
Valency alternations and paradigm augmentation in Seri. SSILA/LSA 2019, New York, USA.

2018

Pluractionality and distributivity in Seri (work with P. Cabredo-Hofherr). November 2018. Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America. University of California Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, USA.
Valency alternations and verbal number in Seri (with M. Baerman and C. O’Meara). November 2018. Encuentro internacional de lingüistica en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Mexico.
The interpretation of embedded non `no': preserving scope-relations. July 2018, Ambigo 2018, Göttingen, Germany, and September 2018 LAGB, Sheffield, UK.
Arguments for pluractionality in Seri (with P. Cabredo Hofherr). June 2018. Nantes, France.
The expression of event plurality in Seri (work with P. Cabredo-Hofherr). May 2018. Fieldwork workshop. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Event plurality in Seri (with P. Cabredo Hofherr and C. O'Meara). May 2018. SULA conference, Toronto, Canada.
Marcación de pluralidad de eventos en la morfología verbal del seri [Marking of plurality of events in the Seri language] (with M. Baerman, P. Cabredo-Hofherr, and C. O'Meara). April 2018. XIIth linguistics conference of the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico city, Mexico.

2017

An asymmetry in responses to questions and assertions in European French: the view from embedded yes/no particles. UCL, London, UK, and UCSC, CA, USA.
On the interpretation of non `no' as a function of the highest scope-bearing operator in its antecedent, Semantics workshop April 2017, UMass Amherst MA, USA.
French d'illusions: a case of grammatical illusion guided by a grammatical property (with Brian Dillon and Lyn Frazier), CUNY 2017, Boston MA, USA.
Karata is the unattested type 4 language of Cable's 2007 typology of wh-questions (with Rashidat Khalidova), LSA 2017, Austin TX, USA.
French d'illusions: a grammatical illusion guided by grammar (with Brian Dillon and Lyn Frazier), LSA 2017, Austin TX, USA.

2016

A closer look at oui `yes', non `no', and si : responding to a question vs responding to an assertion, séminaire SynSem, Université de Nantes, France.
Constituent questions in Karata (with Rashidat Khalidova), Workshop on Nakh-Daghestanian languages, Bamberg, Germany.
Q-movement in French nominal comparatives, GLOW Göttingen, Germany
French d'illusions (with Brian Dillon and Lyn Frazier), CUNY Gainesville, Florida, USA
On the embedding of polarity particles in French (mainly), Université Paris 8, France
La valence en karata: aperçu et comparaison avec les autres langues andis, Collège de France, TypoUlm, Paris, France

2015

Overt quantifier movement in French, Going Romance Nijmegen, The Netherlands & NELS 46 Montreal, Canada & TbiLLC 2015 Tbilissi, Georgia
The prodigal nominative: an Andic story, Language in Daghestan conference, CEERES, Chicago, USA

2014

Degrees of labiality, WCCFL 32 Los Angeles, USA & 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting Manchester, UK

2011

Why do Daghestanian spatial case systems leak? AFLICO IV, Université Lyon 2, France