What I'm talking about
Recent talks
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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