Presentations/Handouts

(Feel free to e-mail me for any handouts that are not downloadable here!)

*Invited talk* [with Timothy Gupton] Cadê o verbo? Accounting for the non-canonical behavior of cadê. Formal Approaches to Galician and Portuguese Grammar. Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY, USA).
[with Timothy Gupton] How to spot a defective verb: evidence from Brazilian Portuguese. Going Romance 2022. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).
[with Carlos Krapp López] What is special about pronouns? Agreement in Spanish copular sentences. Symposium on Spanish Subjects (online).
Accounting for agreement variation in copulas. III Formal Linguistics Meeting in México (IIIELF). Universidad Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico).
[with Timothy Gutpon] Defective interrogative verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. III Formal Linguistics Meeting in México (IIIELF). Universidad Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico).
Syntactic reanalysis as internal change: exploring the dangers of intake. Diachronic Generative Syntax 23 (DiGS23). New York University (New York City, NY, USA).
*Given at the workshop: Child learners in syntactic change: theory and models*
[with Timothy Gupton] U-la diferencia? The importance of Asturian for a microparametric account of Romance interrogatives. 1st International Conference of the Asturian Language (Madrid, Spain).
Weak objects and nominal licensing. 52nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL52). University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, USA).

How far does the PCC extend? Evidence from Romance causatives. Going Romance XXXV. University of Amsterdam/VU Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
Morphological distinctions for syntactic freedom: The PCC and causatives. Workshop on Linguistic Variation at the Interfaces II (VARINT21). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).
Person Case Constraints and Causatives. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2021 (HLS2021). Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC, USA).
DOM, object shift, and the Distinctness Condition. Colloquium on Generative Grammar 30 (CGG30). Universidá d’Uviéu (Asturias, Spain).
Probing for C: What Germanic can learn from Galician. 35th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW35). University di Trento (Trentino, Italy).
[with Monica Alexandrina Irimia] DOM co-occurrence restrictions and their repair strategies: evidence from Galician & Romanian. 51st Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL51). University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Champaign, IL, USA).

Only syntactic movement will do: Morphosyntactic variation in Galician and Icelandic. Cambridge Comparative Syntax 9 (CamCos9). University of Newcastle (Newcastle, UK).
Differential object marking and interface legibility. 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 50 (LSRL50). University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA).
*POSTPONED—COVID-19* How may grammaticalization precede degrammaticalization? A case from Galician. Third International Conference on Grammaticalization Theory and Data. University of Rouen (Rouen, France)
*CANCELED—COVID-19* The step beyond renumeration is labeling. 6th Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM6). University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA).

[with Tim Gupton] Brazilian Portuguese cadê as a morphologically defective verb. 23rd Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS23). University Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX, USA).
Accounting for superfluous clitics in Romance: a case for f. 23rd Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS23). University Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX, USA).
VSO and VOS orders: DOM and object shift in Galician. The Syntax and Semantics of Internal Arguments. University of Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania).
[with Tim Gupton] Microvariation and tenselessness: two cases from Romance. Tenselessness 2. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal).
From clitic to affix: nanoparameters and grammaticalization in Western Iberian. 21st Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGs21). Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona, USA).
Ditropic cliticization, object shift, and phases: post-verbal subject positions in Galician. 49th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL49). University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA).
[with Joshua Bousquette] Two Kinds of Complementizer Agreement: What Galician can tell us about German. 25th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC25). University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA, USA).
Bridging Western Germanic and Romance: C-AGR in Galician. 5th Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM5). University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA).