Presentations
2024 "On Multiple Right Dislocation in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of California, Berkeley. April 2024
2023 "Multiple PP Topicalization in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL) Workshop. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. May 2023.
2023 "Syntactic and Prosodic Topicalization in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Poster presented at the 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. March 2023.
2023 "Three Types of Deverbal Nominalization in Chukchansi Yokuts." (with John Boyle) Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, January 2023.
2022 "On Ross's have-X-to-Y Construction." (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University Fresno, November 2022.**
2021 "Verb Stranding and Argument Ellipsis in Chukchansi Yokuts." (with John Boyle) Presented at the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of Arizona, April 2021.
2021 "Feature Splitting and Lexical Insertion." (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Nanzan Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition Workshop #11, Nanzan University - Japan, February 2021.
2021 "Argument Ellipsis in Chukchansi Yokuts," (with John Boyle) Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting, January 2021.
2020 "Feature Splitting Lexical Insertion in Tough Constructions," (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University Fresno, November 2020.
2020 "Syntactic and Prosodic Sluicing in Japanese," (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK28), University of Central Lancashire, September 2020.
2020 "Multiple Sluicing Constructions in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), August 2020.
2020 "On Multiple Sluicing in Japanese," (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of British Columbia, March 2020.
2019 "Multiple Clefts in Japanese," (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 15, Lomonosov Moscow State University, September 2019.
2019 "Subordination and Nominalization in Chukchansi Yokuts: A Preliminary Analysis," (with John Boyle) Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Summer Workshop, UC Davis, July 2019.
2019 "On Multiple Cleft Constructions." (with Toru Ishii), Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), University of Chicago, May 2019.
2018 "The Propositional Syntax of the Yokuts Verbal Complex," (with John Boyle) Presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UC Santa Barbara, April 2018.
2017 "Configurationality in Chukchansi." (with John Boyle) Presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UC Santa Barbara, May 2017.**
2016 “Prosodic Scrambling in Ukrainian,” (with Chris Golston and Victoria Teliga) Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2016.
2015 “Phonological Movement in Ukrainian,” (with Chris Golston and Victoria Teliga) Presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Vancouver, October 2015.
2015 "Agreement with Verbs in Chukchansi Yokuts," (with Niken Adisasmito-Smith, John Boyle, Chris Golston, and Holly Wyatt) Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon, January 2015.**
2014 "Movement of Phonological Constituents and Prosodic Recursion in Latin," (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, MIT, September 2014.**
2014 “The Split Lexical Insertion Hypothesis,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, UC Berkeley, February 2014. **
2012 “Chukchansi Documentation and Revitalization,” Panel on Google’s Endangered Languages Project, Google Research Campus, August 2012. (invited speaker) **
2011 “Clitic Order in Hittite,” (with Chris Golston) UCLA Proto-Indo-European Workshop, UCLA, October 2011. **
2011 “Phonology Has Movement Too: Movement of Phonological Constituents in Latin,” (with Chris Golston) Parallel Domains Workshop in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, USC, May 2011. **
2010 “Prosody Drives the Major Early Indo-European Word Orders,” (with Chris Golston) UCLA Proto-Indo-European Workshop, UCLA, November 2010.
2010 “Prosodic Scrambling,” (with Chris Golston and Toru Ishii) Presented at Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5, UC Santa Cruz, May 2010.
2010 “Prosodic Movement,” (with Chris Golston and Dasha Henderer) Presented at the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, USC, February 2010.
2010 “Movement of Prosodic Constituents,” (with Chris Golston and Dasha Henderer) Presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, UC Berkeley, February 2010.
2009 “Phonological Movement in Greek and Latin,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 21st Annual UCLA Proto-Indo-European Workshop, UCLA, October 2009.
2009 “Phonological Movement in Classical Greek,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at UCLA (invited speakers), March 2009.
2008 “A PF Movement Analysis of Non-constituent Scrambling,” (with Chris Golston and Toru Ishii) Presented at the 36th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), UC Davis, November 2008.
2008 “Prosodic Scrambling in Japanese,” (with Chris Golston and Toru Ishii) Presented at the 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 2008.
2008 “Split Lexical Insertion Scrambling in Japanese,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 2008.
2008 “Feature/Category Chains in Parasitic Gap Constructions,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the 1st International Workshop on Chains in Minimalism, Yokohama University, Japan, August 2008.
2008 “PF Movement in Latin,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, Cornell University, August 2008.
2007 “PP-Splitting in Ancient Greek,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 35th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), UC San Diego, December 2007.
2007 “Feature Splitting Under External Merge: Some Theoretical and Empirical Consequences,” Presented at Osaka University, Japan (invited speaker), September 2007.
2007 Lecture series on Minimalist Syntax, Presented at Osaka University, Japan (invited speaker), September 2007.
2007 “Split Lexical Insertion in Parasitic Gap Constructions,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Anaheim, CA, January 2007.
2006 “Restructuring Effects in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar), Presented at South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) 26, Kannada University, Hampi, India, December 2006.
2006 “Seemingly Non-complex Complex Predicates and Restructuring in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar), Rice Linguistics Symposium, Rice University, March 2006
2006 “Scattered Exponence in Ancient Greek Coordination,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Albuquerque, NM, January 2006.
2005 “Conditions on PF Movement,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Oakland, CA, January 2005.
2004 “Move F and PF/LF Defectiveness,” (with Masao Ochi) Workshop on Minimalist Theorizing (in conjunction with Syntaxfest 2004), Indiana University, Bloomington, June 2004.
2003 “Accusative-Nominative Case Conversion and Complex Predicates in Kannada and Japanese,” (with Chandra Shekar) Annual Conference of the South Asian Languages Association (SALA) 23, University of Texas, Austin, October 2003.
2003 “A Sideward Movement Approach to Non-Constituent Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Arizona, September 2003.
2003 “Accusative-Nominative Case Conversion in Kannada and Japanese: A Preliminary Investigation,” (with Chandra Shekar) Poster at the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Arizona, September 2003.
2002 “The Trouble with Wh-Subjects,” Presented at the Workshop on Wh-Movement, Univ. of Leiden and Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2002.
2002 “Wackernagel’s Law in Hittite,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 14th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, UCLA, November 2002.
2002 “Non-Constituent Deletion and Directionality,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Pasadena, CA, October 2002.
2002 “From Theory to Practice: Making the Connection in the Pedagogical Grammar Course,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Saroyan Chapter of CATESOL, California State University, Fresno (invited speaker), April 2002.
2002 “Wackernagel Clitics in Hittite and the Syntax of ‘Second Position’,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the University of California, Irvine (invited speakers), January 2002.
2002 “EPP Asymmetries,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, January 2002.
2002 “Not to be Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2002.
2001 “Verbal Deletion—A Moving Experience,” Presented at California State University, Fresno (invited speaker), April 2001.
2001 “Pseudogapping: ATB Movement, not Verb Phrase Ellipsis,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Fourth Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS), March 2001.
2001 “Moving Away from Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2001.
2000 “Pseudogapping and Gapping: The Same, but Different,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 29th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno, October 2000.
2000 “An Implicational Typology of ‘Deletion’ Phenomena,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, May 2000.
2000 “Unifying Left-Peripheral Deletion, Gapping and Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), University of Chicago, April 2000.
2000 “Two Types of Optionality,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2000.
1998 “The Locality and Optionality of Scrambling,” Presented at the 29th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Delaware, October 1998.
1998 “Optional Movement and Feature Attraction,” Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Arizona State University, October 1998.
1997 “Generalized Pied-Piping and Island Effects,” Presented at the 28th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Toronto, October 1997.
1997 "A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications: Some Notes on the Architecture of Small Clauses in Chinese and English,” (with Sze-Wing Tang) Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, May 1997.
1997 “A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications,” Presented at the 9th Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL), Eastern Michigan University, May 1997.
1996 “Phonological Constraints and Base-Reduplicant Non-Identity: The Case of Vietnamese,” Presented at the 2nd South Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT), University of California, Irvine, May 1996.
1995 “Interpretation of Noun Phrases and Feature Licensing,” Presented at ConSOLE 4, University of Paris 10, France, December 1995.
1995 “Feature Licensing and the Theory of Phrase Structure,” Presented at the Workshop on Clausal Architecture: Aspectual and Verbal Projections, University of Bergamo, Italy, November 1995.
2023 "Multiple PP Topicalization in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL) Workshop. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. May 2023.
2023 "Syntactic and Prosodic Topicalization in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Poster presented at the 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. March 2023.
2023 "Three Types of Deverbal Nominalization in Chukchansi Yokuts." (with John Boyle) Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, January 2023.
2022 "On Ross's have-X-to-Y Construction." (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University Fresno, November 2022.**
2021 "Verb Stranding and Argument Ellipsis in Chukchansi Yokuts." (with John Boyle) Presented at the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of Arizona, April 2021.
2021 "Feature Splitting and Lexical Insertion." (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Nanzan Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition Workshop #11, Nanzan University - Japan, February 2021.
2021 "Argument Ellipsis in Chukchansi Yokuts," (with John Boyle) Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting, January 2021.
2020 "Feature Splitting Lexical Insertion in Tough Constructions," (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University Fresno, November 2020.
2020 "Syntactic and Prosodic Sluicing in Japanese," (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK28), University of Central Lancashire, September 2020.
2020 "Multiple Sluicing Constructions in Japanese." (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), August 2020.
2020 "On Multiple Sluicing in Japanese," (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of British Columbia, March 2020.
2019 "Multiple Clefts in Japanese," (with Toru Ishii) Presented at the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 15, Lomonosov Moscow State University, September 2019.
2019 "Subordination and Nominalization in Chukchansi Yokuts: A Preliminary Analysis," (with John Boyle) Presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Summer Workshop, UC Davis, July 2019.
2019 "On Multiple Cleft Constructions." (with Toru Ishii), Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), University of Chicago, May 2019.
2018 "The Propositional Syntax of the Yokuts Verbal Complex," (with John Boyle) Presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UC Santa Barbara, April 2018.
2017 "Configurationality in Chukchansi." (with John Boyle) Presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UC Santa Barbara, May 2017.**
2016 “Prosodic Scrambling in Ukrainian,” (with Chris Golston and Victoria Teliga) Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2016.
2015 “Phonological Movement in Ukrainian,” (with Chris Golston and Victoria Teliga) Presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Vancouver, October 2015.
2015 "Agreement with Verbs in Chukchansi Yokuts," (with Niken Adisasmito-Smith, John Boyle, Chris Golston, and Holly Wyatt) Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon, January 2015.**
2014 "Movement of Phonological Constituents and Prosodic Recursion in Latin," (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, MIT, September 2014.**
2014 “The Split Lexical Insertion Hypothesis,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, UC Berkeley, February 2014. **
2012 “Chukchansi Documentation and Revitalization,” Panel on Google’s Endangered Languages Project, Google Research Campus, August 2012. (invited speaker) **
2011 “Clitic Order in Hittite,” (with Chris Golston) UCLA Proto-Indo-European Workshop, UCLA, October 2011. **
2011 “Phonology Has Movement Too: Movement of Phonological Constituents in Latin,” (with Chris Golston) Parallel Domains Workshop in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, USC, May 2011. **
2010 “Prosody Drives the Major Early Indo-European Word Orders,” (with Chris Golston) UCLA Proto-Indo-European Workshop, UCLA, November 2010.
2010 “Prosodic Scrambling,” (with Chris Golston and Toru Ishii) Presented at Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5, UC Santa Cruz, May 2010.
2010 “Prosodic Movement,” (with Chris Golston and Dasha Henderer) Presented at the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, USC, February 2010.
2010 “Movement of Prosodic Constituents,” (with Chris Golston and Dasha Henderer) Presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, UC Berkeley, February 2010.
2009 “Phonological Movement in Greek and Latin,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 21st Annual UCLA Proto-Indo-European Workshop, UCLA, October 2009.
2009 “Phonological Movement in Classical Greek,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at UCLA (invited speakers), March 2009.
2008 “A PF Movement Analysis of Non-constituent Scrambling,” (with Chris Golston and Toru Ishii) Presented at the 36th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), UC Davis, November 2008.
2008 “Prosodic Scrambling in Japanese,” (with Chris Golston and Toru Ishii) Presented at the 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 2008.
2008 “Split Lexical Insertion Scrambling in Japanese,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 2008.
2008 “Feature/Category Chains in Parasitic Gap Constructions,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the 1st International Workshop on Chains in Minimalism, Yokohama University, Japan, August 2008.
2008 “PF Movement in Latin,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, Cornell University, August 2008.
2007 “PP-Splitting in Ancient Greek,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 35th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), UC San Diego, December 2007.
2007 “Feature Splitting Under External Merge: Some Theoretical and Empirical Consequences,” Presented at Osaka University, Japan (invited speaker), September 2007.
2007 Lecture series on Minimalist Syntax, Presented at Osaka University, Japan (invited speaker), September 2007.
2007 “Split Lexical Insertion in Parasitic Gap Constructions,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Anaheim, CA, January 2007.
2006 “Restructuring Effects in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar), Presented at South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) 26, Kannada University, Hampi, India, December 2006.
2006 “Seemingly Non-complex Complex Predicates and Restructuring in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar), Rice Linguistics Symposium, Rice University, March 2006
2006 “Scattered Exponence in Ancient Greek Coordination,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Albuquerque, NM, January 2006.
2005 “Conditions on PF Movement,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Oakland, CA, January 2005.
2004 “Move F and PF/LF Defectiveness,” (with Masao Ochi) Workshop on Minimalist Theorizing (in conjunction with Syntaxfest 2004), Indiana University, Bloomington, June 2004.
2003 “Accusative-Nominative Case Conversion and Complex Predicates in Kannada and Japanese,” (with Chandra Shekar) Annual Conference of the South Asian Languages Association (SALA) 23, University of Texas, Austin, October 2003.
2003 “A Sideward Movement Approach to Non-Constituent Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Arizona, September 2003.
2003 “Accusative-Nominative Case Conversion in Kannada and Japanese: A Preliminary Investigation,” (with Chandra Shekar) Poster at the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Arizona, September 2003.
2002 “The Trouble with Wh-Subjects,” Presented at the Workshop on Wh-Movement, Univ. of Leiden and Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2002.
2002 “Wackernagel’s Law in Hittite,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 14th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, UCLA, November 2002.
2002 “Non-Constituent Deletion and Directionality,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Pasadena, CA, October 2002.
2002 “From Theory to Practice: Making the Connection in the Pedagogical Grammar Course,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Saroyan Chapter of CATESOL, California State University, Fresno (invited speaker), April 2002.
2002 “Wackernagel Clitics in Hittite and the Syntax of ‘Second Position’,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the University of California, Irvine (invited speakers), January 2002.
2002 “EPP Asymmetries,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, January 2002.
2002 “Not to be Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2002.
2001 “Verbal Deletion—A Moving Experience,” Presented at California State University, Fresno (invited speaker), April 2001.
2001 “Pseudogapping: ATB Movement, not Verb Phrase Ellipsis,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Fourth Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS), March 2001.
2001 “Moving Away from Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2001.
2000 “Pseudogapping and Gapping: The Same, but Different,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 29th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno, October 2000.
2000 “An Implicational Typology of ‘Deletion’ Phenomena,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, May 2000.
2000 “Unifying Left-Peripheral Deletion, Gapping and Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), University of Chicago, April 2000.
2000 “Two Types of Optionality,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2000.
1998 “The Locality and Optionality of Scrambling,” Presented at the 29th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Delaware, October 1998.
1998 “Optional Movement and Feature Attraction,” Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Arizona State University, October 1998.
1997 “Generalized Pied-Piping and Island Effects,” Presented at the 28th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Toronto, October 1997.
1997 "A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications: Some Notes on the Architecture of Small Clauses in Chinese and English,” (with Sze-Wing Tang) Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, May 1997.
1997 “A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications,” Presented at the 9th Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL), Eastern Michigan University, May 1997.
1996 “Phonological Constraints and Base-Reduplicant Non-Identity: The Case of Vietnamese,” Presented at the 2nd South Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT), University of California, Irvine, May 1996.
1995 “Interpretation of Noun Phrases and Feature Licensing,” Presented at ConSOLE 4, University of Paris 10, France, December 1995.
1995 “Feature Licensing and the Theory of Phrase Structure,” Presented at the Workshop on Clausal Architecture: Aspectual and Verbal Projections, University of Bergamo, Italy, November 1995.