2024
- On the monotonicity of attitudes: NPIs and clausal embedding
- Joint work with Tanya Bondarenko
- Talk accepted at NELS 54, MIT.
2023
- On the monotonicity of attitudes: NPIs and clausal embedding
- Joint work with Tanya Bondarenko.
- Presented at PhLiP 8, November 11.
- Finding strength in contradiction
- Invited talk at PALLMYR workshop, UCL, November 18.
- Gluts in the logic of anaphoric dependencies
- Disjunctive donkeys and overlapping updates
- Poster presented at SALT 33.
- Poster.
2022
- Anaphora and simplification
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo
- Talk given at ZAS semantics circle.
- Slides
- Anaphora and simplification
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo
- Talk given at the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Meaning in Language colloquium series.
- Slides
- Against simplification: free choice with anaphora
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo
- Talk given at SuB 2022
- Slides
- Partee conjunctions and anaphora with free choice
- Disjunction in a predictive theory of anaphora
2021
- Meaning in linguistic theory: formal semantics and Montague grammar
- MIT Quest meaning representation workshop, September 11.
- Intensionalizing abstract meaning representations: non-veridicality and scope
- Joint work with Greg Williamson and Yuxin Ji.
- Talk given at the LAW-DMR 2021 workshop, November 10-11.
- Paper
- A scopal theory of pied-piping in relative clauses
- Externally dynamic dynamic semantics
- Trivalent foundations for a logic of anaphora
- Invited job talk given at MIT.
- Slides
- Radical successive cyclicity and the freedom of parasitic gaps
- Joint work with Colin Davis
- Talk given at LSA, January 8.
- Handout
2020
- What linguists can learn from functional programmers: a study in opacity and environment sensitivity
- Talk given at MIT CompLang, December 8.
- Classical negation in a dynamic alternative semantics
- Invited talk at LENLS 17.
- Slides.
- Coreference, negation, and modal subordination
- Talk at Rutgers SURGE meeting, October 27.
- Crossover and the dynamics of negation
- Talk at NYU semantics group, October 9.
- Generalized crossover
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo.
- Talk given at SALT
- Slides
- A flexible scope theory of intensionality
2019
- Nesting habits of flightless wh-expressions
- Invited talk given at the workshop Complex wh-expressions in Nantes.
- Two souls of disjunction
- Talk given at the workshop Asymmetries in language: presuppositions and beyond in Berlin.
- Binding back to the future
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo.
- Talk given at the workshop Asymmetries in language: presuppositions and beyond in Berlin.
- Nuclear intervention: deriving Beck effects via cyclic scope and local exhaustification
- Joint work with Uli Sauerland.
- Talk given at the workshop Exhaustivity in questions and answers in Tübingen.
- Nuclear intervention: towards a unified account of weak islands and Beck effects
- The dynamics of ellipsis identity
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo.
- Talk given at the workshop SLUICING+@50 in Chicago.
- Fuck compositionality
- Invited talk at the DGfS workshop Encoding emotive attitudes in non-truth-conditional meaning in Bremen.
- Slides
- Two souls of disjunction: making dynamic semantics (more) explanatory
- Movement as higher-order structure building
2018
- Deriving dynamic disjunction
- Talk given at the FB IV workshop, ZAS Berlin.
- Arguments and attitudes
- Guest lecture at the semantics of attitudes seminar series, UCL.
- On Prior's substitution problem
- Talk given at the UCL workshop on attitude predicates.
- Embedded exhaustification and plurality: two case studies
2017
- An algebraic theory of attitudes
- Arguments and attitudes
- Talk given at the FB IV workshop, ZAS Berlin.
2016
- Nested which-phrases: consequences for the syntax of wh-scope
- Talk given at the IGG 42, Lecce.
- Nested wh-questions and the locality of scope-taking
- Talk given at ConSOLE XXIV, York.
- Severing everything: substitution failures, and their consequences for the theory of argument structure
- Talk given at UCLA syntax round table.
- Handout
- Embedded declaratives as modifiers
- Talk given at SuB 21, University of Edinburgh.
- Slides
- Explaining DPs vs. CPs without syntax
- Talk given at CLS 52, Chicago.
- Handout
- Explain and the semantics of embedding
- Talk given at London Semantics Day.
- Handout
- Rethinking the semantics of embedding
- Talk given at the FB IV Workshop, ZAS Berlin.
- Handout
- Propositional content of events and individuals
- Poster presented at NASSLLI 2016.
- Poster
- Selection without Syntax
- Poster presented at OLINCO 2016.
- Poster
2015
- Optimizing the ellipsis site
- E-type readings of quantifiers under ellipsis
- Joint work with Yasu Sudo.
- Poster presented at SuB 20.
- Poster.
- Discourse even vs. attitude even
- Joint work with Elin McCready and Yasu Sudo.
- Poster presented at SALT 25.