Talks

 

Invited


  1. •April 2009. ‘Predicate Fronting and its Consequences: Ergativity in Chol.’ To be presented at New York University, New York. [handout]

  2. •March 2009. ‘Predicate Fronting and its Consequences: Ergativity in Chol Mayan.’ CUNY Syntax Supper, City University of New York, New York.

  3. •January 2008. ‘The Source of Split Ergativity in Chol.’ The SSILA Annual Meeting, Mayan Symposium, Chicago, Illinois. [handout]

  4. •June 2007. ‘VOS as Predicate Fronting in Chol Mayan.’ Presented at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.


Conferences and Workshops


  1. •April 2009. ‘A Biclausal Analysis of Aspect Based Split Ergativity.’ Presented at WSCLA 14, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [handout, proceedings paper]

  2. •November 2008 (with Omer Preminger). ‘Posicionales y Pasivos en Chol.’ Presented at 10 Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noreste, University of Sonora, Sonora, Mexico. [handout]

  3. •May 2008. ‘When Ergative = Genitive: Nominals and Split Ergativity.’ Presented at WCCFL 27, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. [proceedings paper]

  4. •February 2008 (with Andrés Salanova). ‘Nominalization and Predicate Fronting: Two Sources of Ergativity.’ Presented at PLC 32, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [proceedings paper]

  5. •January 2008 (with Gillian Gallagher). ‘Identity and Consonant Harmony in Chol.’ Presented at ConSOLE 16, Paris, France. [handout]

  6. •January 2008. ‘Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-Piping in Chol.’ Presented at 82nd Annual Meeting of the LSA, Chicago, Illinois. [handout]

  7. •October 2007 (with Gillian Gallagher). ‘Similarity and Correspondence in Chol Roots.’ Presented at NELS 38, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. [proceedings paper]

  8. •October 2007. ‘Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-Piping in Chol.’ Presented at NELS 38, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

  9. •June 2007. ‘Counting with Verbs in Chol Mayan.’ Presented at Workshop on Determiners and Classifiers, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. [handout]

  10. •April 2007. ‘VOS as Predicate Fronting in Chol Mayan.’ Presented at Workshop on V1/V2, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.

  11. •January 2007. ‘Right-specifiers vs. V-movement: VOS in Chol.’ Presented at The SSILA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California.

  12. •March 2006. ‘Existentials and Negation in Chol Mayan.’ Presented at CamLing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [proceedings paper]

  13. •January 2005 (with Kirill Shkovsky). ‘Cliticization and Affixation in Two Mayan Languages.’ Presented at The SSILA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

  14. •April 2004. ‘Nominal Roots and Stem Formation in Chol Mayan.’ Presented at The Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  15. •February 2004: ‘Nominal Constructions and Split-Ergativity in Chol Mayan.’ Presented at BLS 30, University of California, Berkeley, California.