What I'm talking about
Upcoming talks
April 24-25, 2025:
"What markedness patterns in polar questions reveal about the syntax-pragmatics interface." Polar Question Form[s] Across Languages, University of Amsterdam
May 7-9 2025
"The acquisition of interactional language and what it tells us about the architecture of grammar." Invited speaker at The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. UNED Madrid
May 19-23, 2025
I will present a series of lectures as a Randolph Quirk Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
All talks will be given in hybrid mode.
"What do humans know when they use language?"Workshop 1: How do children acquire knowledge of language use?Workshop 2: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we talk to ourselves?Workshop 3: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we express emotions?
Public lecture: Language makes us think AI knows stuff
June 4, 2025
online talk with Nicolas Rivera Bobadillo. at Theory and Analysis of Language (Buenos Aires) https://talk-group.org/
June 10, 2025
online talk at the lecture series on Syntactic Pathways to Morphology, Sao Paolo (title tba)
June 26, 2025
online talk at the Inner Speech Colloquium: "Linguistic evidence for different modes of self-talk and what it might tell us about inner speech."
July 10-11, 2025
invited talk at the Colloquium on Philosophy and Generative Grammar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Recent talks
Towards a typology of expressive interjections: a modular approach. Workshop on Expressivity: Variation and Change, DGFS Mainz, Germany, March 5-7 2025 (with Nicolás Rivera Bobadilla)
Self-talk as a window into the syntax-pragmatics interface. The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno. (Online event) November 16-17 2024.
What we can learn about human language by interacting with LLM´s. Beyond Words Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Approaches to Language, Contexts, and Modalities, University of Gotheborg, Sweden. October 3-4 2024.
Grammar Plays a Role in Human-Computer Interaction, Huh? (with Matthew Galbraith and Preeti Kumari), Beyond Words Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Approaches to Language, Contexts, and Modalities. October 3-4, 2024.
The grammar of self-talk: What different modes of talking reveal about language. IIT Delhi, Colloquium. October 18 2024
Is egophoricity part of the TAM system? Evidence from Kathmandu Newā(r) (with Shahani Singh Shrestha). Tense, Aspect and Modality in South Asian Languages, INALCO, Paris. October 29-30 2024. Grammar Plays a Role in Human-Computer Interaction, Huh?(with Matthew Galbraith and Preeti Kumari) The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2024), August 9 2024. AI's truth is not my truth and what language has to do with it. (with Preeti Kumari). 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind. Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic), July 12 2024 Politeness: at the crossroads of mind and culture. (with Preeti Kumari). 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind. Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic), July 11 2024 The emergence of syntactic structure through the lens of interaction. (with Johannes Heim). Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University (UK), July 10, 2024. Tree tops: the big picture and the details that come with it. Commentary on S. Miyagawa. Workshop on Speech Act related operators (SARO) Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, June 27 2024 Emotions don´t enter grammar because they are constructed (by grammar) Plenary talk, Tabu Dag, Groningen University, June 14th 2024 I am here and this is new. You are there and that is old. The role of speaker and addressee in the interpretation of demonstratives (with Valentina Colasanti); Talk presented at Workshop Functional categories, dimensions of meaning, and expletiveness, Universitat Autonoma de Barelona. June 14), presented by V. Colasanti. What grammar tells us about knowledge. Philosophy and Generative Grammar 2, Online workshop, May 8, 2024 I argue that knowledge is a grammatical construct, just as truth is. Early management of common ground: lessons from L1 acquisition of interactional language (with Johannes Heim); Talk presented at the workshop Common Ground in linguistics: from its construction to its role in mapping meaning, Nanterre University (France), April 24 2024. Beyond polar truth: evidence from polar response markers and their kin, Colloquium, University of Nantes (France), April 19 2024. The syntax of knowing and beyond. Plenary talk, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Ruhr Universität Bochum, March 1 2024) You can enter syntax and save your face in different ways. Charting Honorific and Addressee morphosyntactic processes (CHAMP 2, Goettingen, Germany, February 2 2024)
Grammar Plays a Role in Human-Computer Interaction, Huh? (with Matthew Galbraith and Preeti Kumari), Beyond Words Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Approaches to Language, Contexts, and Modalities. October 3-4, 2024.
The grammar of self-talk: What different modes of talking reveal about language. IIT Delhi, Colloquium. October 18 2024
Is egophoricity part of the TAM system? Evidence from Kathmandu Newā(r) (with Shahani Singh Shrestha). Tense, Aspect and Modality in South Asian Languages, INALCO, Paris. October 29-30 2024. Grammar Plays a Role in Human-Computer Interaction, Huh?(with Matthew Galbraith and Preeti Kumari) The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2024), August 9 2024. AI's truth is not my truth and what language has to do with it. (with Preeti Kumari). 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind. Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic), July 12 2024 Politeness: at the crossroads of mind and culture. (with Preeti Kumari). 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind. Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic), July 11 2024 The emergence of syntactic structure through the lens of interaction. (with Johannes Heim). Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University (UK), July 10, 2024. Tree tops: the big picture and the details that come with it. Commentary on S. Miyagawa. Workshop on Speech Act related operators (SARO) Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, June 27 2024 Emotions don´t enter grammar because they are constructed (by grammar) Plenary talk, Tabu Dag, Groningen University, June 14th 2024 I am here and this is new. You are there and that is old. The role of speaker and addressee in the interpretation of demonstratives (with Valentina Colasanti); Talk presented at Workshop Functional categories, dimensions of meaning, and expletiveness, Universitat Autonoma de Barelona. June 14), presented by V. Colasanti. What grammar tells us about knowledge. Philosophy and Generative Grammar 2, Online workshop, May 8, 2024 I argue that knowledge is a grammatical construct, just as truth is. Early management of common ground: lessons from L1 acquisition of interactional language (with Johannes Heim); Talk presented at the workshop Common Ground in linguistics: from its construction to its role in mapping meaning, Nanterre University (France), April 24 2024. Beyond polar truth: evidence from polar response markers and their kin, Colloquium, University of Nantes (France), April 19 2024. The syntax of knowing and beyond. Plenary talk, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Ruhr Universität Bochum, March 1 2024) You can enter syntax and save your face in different ways. Charting Honorific and Addressee morphosyntactic processes (CHAMP 2, Goettingen, Germany, February 2 2024)
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