Our members are actively sharing their research at exciting venues! See below upcoming and past talks (both by invitation and at peer-reviewed conferences).
Spring 2024
January:
Joshua Dees1, Katie VanDyne1, and Anna Romaniuk2. The CΔG and Polish causative/anticausative deadjectival verbs. Talk at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2024). January 4-7.
Katie VanDyne. Relating the size and the specifier: Contrasts in intermediate wh-movement. Talk at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2024). January 4-7.
Aida Talić. You don’t need a definite article to have a DP: A view from Telugu domain of N and A. Poster at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2024). January 4-7.
Jonathan MacDonald. Eventive VPs project AspP; Stative VPs do not. Poster at the 54th North East Linguistics Conference (NELS54). January 26-27.
February:
March:
Joshua Dees. N-raising (and more) in Dholuo: Evidence of a D-layer in a bare-nominal language. Talk at Southern Illinois University‘s Linguistics Colloquium. March 29.
April:
Martine Gallardo & Stefano Castiglione. Diagnosing the structure of Italian absolute clauses. Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2024 (PLS2024). April 12-13.
Sid Bhushan. What You Kan and Kannot Do: Deletions and Mergers of Grammatical Gender in Kannada. University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium. April 21-27.
Joshua Dees. Temporal remoteness and the Jespersen Cycle: A diachronic study of temporality in Dholuo. Talk at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS60). April 26-28.
Martine Gallardo & Silvina Montrul. Revisiting the compounding parameter in second language acquisition. Poster at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS60). April 26-28.
May:
Joshua Dees. It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday: A diachronic study of temporality in Dholuo. Poster at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL55). May 2-5.
Joshua Dees. Times (and tenses) are changing: A study of temporality in Dholuo. Talk at the Grammatical Structures of Nilo-Saharan Workshop (NiSaGra). May 13-14.
June:
Martine Gallardo & Stefano Castiglione. Diagnosing the structure of Italian absolute clauses. Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics (LingO2024) June 19-20.
July:
Fall 2023
August:
Aida Talić. Cyclicity and empty moras leading to compensatory vowel lengthening. Talk at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS 18).
Aida Talić. Local Dislocation (LD) and prosodic structure building in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS)
truncated infinitives. Talk at 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea – Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb.
September:
Joshua Dees. A structural analysis of Tense in Dholuo. Poster presented at The 16th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 16). September 21-23.
October:
Sid Bhushan. A morphological analysis of gender in Kannada. Talk at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC17). October 27-28.
November:
Joshua Dees1, Katie VanDyne1, and Anna Romaniuk2. For better or for worse: An analysis of allomorphic variation in Polish deadjectival anticausatives. Talk at the 2023 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL2023). November 11-12.
Sid Bhushan. Gender in Kannada and Distributed Morphology: The role of impoverishment in gender/number alternations. Talk at the 2023 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL2023). November 11-12.
Jonathan MacDonald. Syntactic ingredients for telicity: An aspectual projection, an aspectual operator, and scalar points. Talk at Utrecht University.
Jonathan MacDonald. An inner aspectual functional projection: evidence from Spanish hacerlo. Talk at Going Romance 37. November 30-December 1.
December:
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Spring 2023
January:
Katie VanDyne. On the structural differences between shifted objects and clitic movement in Spanish. Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA97). January 5-8.
February:
Josh Dees. To D or not to D: Kannada as an NP language. Poster presented at the 22nd Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society (TLS 2023). February 18.
March:
Josh Dees. Non-uniformity in phonologizing phase heads: Evidence from Kazakh. Poster presented at the 8th Workshop on Turkic Language and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+ 8). March 4.
Kim, Myeong Hyeon, and Chae Eun Lee, and James Yoon. The structure and interpretation of two types of nominal coordination in Korean. The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK30). March 11-13.
Chae Eun Lee. Increasing second language learners’ production of agreement morphology: A priming study. 2023 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL 2023). March 18-21.
Josh Dees. Kannada through the lens of the NP/DP parameter. Talk at (formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages ((f)ASAL). March 31-April 2.
April:
Josh Dees. Phonological spell-out of K in Kazakh. Paper presented at the Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2023 (PLS2023). April 14-15.
Jonathan MacDonald. The scope of maximalization and the syntax-semantics interface. Plenary at the International Workshop on Maximalization Strategies in Event Domain. April 17-19.
Josh Dees. Phase head exception in phonological spell-out: An example from Kazakh. Poster at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS59). April 28-30.
Katie VanDyne. Examining the theoretical contradiction of Merge-over-Move and MERGE. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS59). April 28-30.
May:
Aida Talić. Phases and accent assignment domains. Talk at the Sunday Satellite Workshop at the 12th North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCxii). May 14.
Aida Talić. Timing of post-syntactic operations in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian truncated infinitives. Talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL). May 19-21.
Martine Gallardo. Bilingual knowledge of resultatives: A study of Spanish heritage speakers. Poster at Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: Cultural Context, Individual Differences and Methodologies (HL@Cross 2023). May 29-30.
June:
Martine Gallardo. Resultatives in the dominant and heritage language. Poster presented at the 14th Heritage Language Research Institute. June 5-8.
Martine Gallardo. Bilingual Knowledge of Resultatives: A Study of Spanish Heritage Speakers. Paper presented at the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). June 26-30.
July:
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