Conference Presentations

  • TBA, Invited Plenary Lecture: Workshop on Number, Numerals and Plurality, 12th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 12), Brno, Czech Republic, September, 2019.
  • ''Artifactual Aggregate Nouns: Reference and Countability'' (Invited): GLif Colloquium, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, June, 2019.
  • With Rebecca Everson and Wolf Honoré. “An Online Platform for Community-Based Language Description and Documentation” (Technology Showcase Presentation). 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), March 2019, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI.
  • ''Counting Artifacts and Abstract Objects'' (Invited): Challenges to Compositionality: Mismatches between form and meaning. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, February, 2019.
  • ''Plurality and Reference'' (Invited): Semantics and Pragmatics Exchange, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, January, 2019.
  • ''Quantifying Nominal Meaning'' (Invited): Center for Integrated Computing Symposium. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, January, 2019.
  • With Julianne Kapner. ''The Non-Uniqueness of Weak Definites'' (poster), Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2019, New York City, NY.
  • With Maya Abtahian et al. ''The Extension of (Positive) anymore'' (poster), American Dialect Society Annual Conference, January 2019, New York City, NY.
  • ''Determining Countability Classes'', Count and Mass Workshop, May 2018, Bochum, Germany.
  • With Chigusa Kurumada. ''Roles of meaning predictability in language production and learning'', Meaning in Flux: Connecting Development, Variation, and Change, October 2017, Yale, New Haven, CT.
  • With Chigusa Kurumada, Joseph Plvan-Franke, and Wesley Orth. ''Communicative efficiency in language production and evolution: Optional plural marking'' (poster), CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 2017, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
  • With Rebecca Everson. ''From Toolbox Database to LaTeX Dictionary'' (poster), 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), March 2017, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.
  • ''Plurality and Reference'' (Invited): Northwestern Linguistics Colloquium. Northwestern, Evanston, IL, March, 2017.
  • ``Artifact Nouns: Reference and Countability'' (poster) : 47th Northeast Linguistic Society (NELS 47), October 2016, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA.
  • ''Determining the Semantics of Nominalizations'' (Invited): Dimensions of D Workshop. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September, 2016.
  • With L. McNally. ``An Ontologically Parsimonious Approach to -ing Nominalizations'': 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, September 2016
  • With B. Levin ''Artifacts: Reference, Countability, and Categorization'' (Invited): Countability Workshop, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, June, 2016.
  • ''The Information Packaging Particle la in Dagaare'': Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 47, University of California Berkeley, Berkely, California, March 2016.
  • ''Furniture and Other Artifactual Aggregates'' (Invited): GLif Colloquium, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, January, 2016.
  • ''Abstract Nouns and Countability'' (Invited): 11th International Symposium of Cognition, Language and Communication—Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, December, 2015.
  • ''The Empirical Basis of Countability'' and ''The Scale of Individuation, Mereotopology, and Artifactual Aggregates'' (Invited): Lectures delivered at 7th International School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, December, 2015.
  • ''Event description, individuation, and reference: Re-building the semantics of nominalizations'' (Invited): JeNom 6 (Journées d’étude sur les nominalisations), University of Verona, Verona, Italy, July, 2015.
  • With L. McNally. ''The -ing Dynasty: Re-Building the Semantics of Nominalizations'': Semantic and Linguistic Theory (SALT), Stanford Universtiy, Stanford, CA, May 2015.
  • With L. McNally. '''The+VPing' as anaphoric event-type reference'': West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 33), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 2015.
  • ''The Information Packaging Particle la in Dagaare'': Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 46, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, March 2015.
  • ``Number and Individuation'' (Invited): Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, February, 2015.
  • ``Plurality and Reference'' (Invited): 4th Cornell Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November, 2014.
  • With M. Dočekal and M. Ziková. ``How do you count a leaf?: On the rigidity of Czech noun semantics'': Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, June 2014.
  • With L. Hogeweg, S. Lestrade, E. A. Smith and H. Zeevat. ``Lexical Meaning and Meaning in Use'': Workshop Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics (BRIDGE-14), Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • ``Inclusive and exclusive plurality: Experimental investigations'' (Invited): New Directions in Experimental Semantics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 2014.
  • With L. McNally. ``No ordered arguments needed for nouns''. Workshop on Quantitative Data in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, The 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013.
  • ``Abstract Nouns and Countability'' (Invited): CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy, November 2013.
  • ``Number and Individuation'', ``Empirical Explorations in the Semantics of Abstract Nouns'', and ``Plurality and Referentiality'' (Invited): Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, November 2013.
  • ``Degrees of Countability: A Mereotopological Approach'' (Invited): Countability Workshop, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 2013.
  • ``Number and Individuation'' (Invited): Linguistic Department, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2013.
  • ``Plurality and Referentiality'' (Invited): Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, Spain, April 2013.
  • ``A Mereotopological Approach to the Mass/Count Distinction'' (Invited): DIP Colloquium, Institue for Logic, Language and Compuation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2013.
  • ``Nombre et individuation'' (Invited): Department of Linguistics, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, February 2013.
  • ``Grammatical Number and Individuation'' (Invited): Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, February 2013.
  • With B. Levin. ``Who Has More Furniture? An Exploration of the Bases for Comparison'', Mass/Count in Linguistics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science Conference, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, December, 2012. slides
  • ``Grammatical Number and Individuation'' (Invited): Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium, University of California Berkeley, CA, February 2012.
  • ``The Empirical Foundation of the Mass/Count Distinction'' (Invited): Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 2012.
  • ``Nominal Semantics and Countability'' (Invited): Leiden-Utrecht Semantics Happenings, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, January 2012.
  • ``Plurality is Distinct from Number Neutrality'' (Invited): Weak Referentiality Project Meeting, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, January 2012.
  • ``Towards a Typology of Countability'' (Invited): Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, January 2012.
  • ``Abstract Nouns and Countability''. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. January 7, 2012. slides
  • ``Countability in Dagaare'' (Invited) : Department of African Studies, Humboldt University, December 2011, Berlin, Germany.
  • With B. Levin. ``Furniture and Other Functional Aggregates: More and Less Countable than Mass Nouns'', Sinn und Bedeutung 16, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 6-8, 2011.
  • ``Towards Understanding Raising-to-Subject'' (Invited) : Berkeley Syntax Circle, April 2011, Berkely University, CA, USA. slides
  • With A. Djalali, D. Clausen and B. Levin. ``What Can Be Ground? Noun Type, Constructions, and the Universal Grinder'' : Berkely Linguistics Society, February 2011, Berkeley University, CA, USA. abstract slides
  • With A. Djalali, D. Clausen and B. Levin. ``What Can Be Ground? Noun Type, Constructions, and the Universal Grinder'' : SPLaT!, Stanford Psychology and Language Tea, January 2011, Stanford University, USA.
  • With B. Levin. ``Between count and mass: Furniture and other functional collectives'' : Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2011, Pittsburgh, USA. slides
  • ``Distinguishing Plurality and Number Neutrality'' (Invited) : UC Santa Cruz SemLab, November 2010, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • ``Plurality Is Distinct from Number-Neutrality'' : California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics 3 (CUSP3), November 2010, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • ``Plurality Is Distinct from Number Neutrality'' (poster): The 41st Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS), October 2010, The University of Pennsylvania.
  • With D. Clausen, A. Djalali, S. Lauer, T. Rojas-Esponda and B. Levin. ``Extension, Ontological Type, and Morphosyntactic Class: Three Ingredients of Countability'': Conference on Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language, September 2010, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. slides (updated)
  • ``The semantics of the intensional genitive in Russian'' (poster): Scott Grimm and Olga Kagan. Linguistic Evidence 2010, February 2010, Tübingen, Germany. abstract
  • ``Number Marking in Dagaare'' (Invited) : Department of African Studies, Humboldt University, November 2009, Berlin, Germany.
  • ``Number and Markedness: A View from Dagaare'' : Sinn und Bedeutung 14, September 2009, Vienna, Austria. slides
  • With Joan Bresnan. ``Spatiotemporal variation in the dative alternation: a study of four corpora of British and American English : Grammar & Corpora 2009, September 2009, Mannheim, Germany. slides
  • ``Not a simple yes or no: Uncertainty in indirect answers.'' (poster): Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Scott Grimm, and Chris Potts. SigDial 2009, September 2009, UCL, London, England.
  • ``Individuation and Inverse Number Marking'' (poster) : Workshop on Linguistic Relativity, September 2009, CSLI, Stanford Univeristy, USA.
  • ``Number Marking and Individuation: A View from Dagaare'' : California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP), May 2009, UCLA, USA.
  • ``Number Marking and Individuation: A View from Dagaare'' (Invited) : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, March 2009, Berlin, Germany.
  • ``An Empirical View on Raising-to-Subject'' (Invited): Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, March 2009, Berlin, Germany.
  • ``An Empirical View on Raising-to-Subject'' : Workshop on Linking of Sentential Arguments, DGfS, March 2009, Osnabrück, Germany. slides
  • ``Number Marking and Individuation: A View from Dagaare'' : Mass/Count Workshop, February 2009, University of Toronto, Canada.
  • ``Grammatical Number in Dagaare'' : Center for African Studies, January 2009, Stanford University, USA.
  • ``An Empirical View on Raising-to-Subject'' : Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2009, San Francisco, USA.
  • ``Agency and the Semantic Foundations of Case '' (Invited): A Non-Canonical View on CaseWorkshop, May 2008, University of Konstanz, Germany.
  • With Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. ``Re-examining instrumental subjects from an empirical stance '' : Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2008, Chicago, USA.
  • ``Instrumental Subjects'' (Invited): Department of Linguistics, November 2007; University of Konstanz, Germany.
  • ``Semantics of Case and the Accusative/Genitive Alternation in Russian'' : Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Morphological Case, July 2007, Linguistics Society of America Summer School, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • With Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Uriel Cohen Priva, Sander Lestrade, Gorkem Ozbek, Tyler Schnoebelen, Susannah Kirby, Misha Becker, Vivienne Fong & Joan Bresnan. A statistical Model of Grammatical Choices in Childrens Productions of Dative Sentences. Workshop on Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax, May 2007, University of York, United Kingdom. slides
  • ``Subject Marking in Hindi/Urdu: A Study in Case and Agency.'' (poster): ESSLLI Student Session, August 2006. Malaga, Spain.
  • With Miriam Butt and Tafseer Ahmed. ``Dative Subjects'': NWO/DFG Workshop on Optimal Sentence Processing , June 2006, Radboud University, Nijmegen , The Netherlands.
  • ``Agency and Case: A lattice-based framework'': 15th Amsterdam Colloquium, December 2005, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • ``Case Attraction and Agentivity Effects'' (Invited) : NWO-DFG Workshop `Modelling incremental interpretation', November, 2005, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • ``Optimal Case Attraction'' : Sixth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, September 2005, Batumi, Republic of Georgia.
  • ``Dynamic Semantics and `Why Don't You' Constructions'' (poster) : Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics Student Session, April 2005, Bordeaux, France.
  • ``Questionable Imperatives'': Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, February 2005, Szklarska Poreba, Poland.