What I'm talking about
Upcoming talks
January 29 "Where go, huh?" The acquisition of huh and what it tells us about language development (UPF GLIF Seminar)
May 6-8 2026, Invited talk at an Online conference on Philosophy and Generative Grammar
May 21-23, 2026, Invited talk at the Salzburg Workshop on Inner speech, University of Salzburg
June 8 - 10, Invited talk at the Workshop Doing things with emotions, Inter University Centre Dubrovnik
August 17-21 Above and beyond the sentence: the grammar of interaction Course at the DGFS summer school in Bielefeld:
Recent talks
Gesture in self-talk. Talk at Formal Approaches to Language MultiModality, 4-5 December 2025, Trinity College Dublin. (with Valentina Colasanti)
How dialogical is inner speech? The view from linguistics, Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk, UPF (December 4th 2025)
Why miratives are (un)expected. Valence Asymmetries Seminar. UPF (December 2, 2025)
What's in a mirative? And how did it get there? Invited talk at the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 37 , University of Zurich, November 10-11 2025,
What language tells us about emotions. Workshop Getting Your Act Together‘ – The Phenomenology of Affective Self-Regulation, Agency, and Inner Speech. Department of Philosophy, UPF (October 8th 2025)
The grammar of knowledge and its consequences for interacting with AI. Online colloquium University of the Western Cape, Department of Linguistics., October 1 2025
"Language is of two minds: evidence from sentence peripheries." invited talk at the Colloquium on Different Perspectives in Philosophy of Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. July 10-11, 2025 (slides)
"Linguistic evidence for different modes of self-talk and what it might tell us about inner speech." online talk at the Inner Speech Colloquium. June 26, 2025 (slides
“Three syntactic pathways to honorificity: Towards a typology of marking politeness”, Online talk at the lecture series on Syntactic Pathways to Morphology, Sao Paolo June 10, 2025 (slides) "Towards a typology of emotive markers: a case study of puta, damn and scheisse." Online talk with Nicolás Rivera Bobadilla. at the SADAF group SADAF group of the University of Buenos Aires. (June 4th 2025) (slides)
I presented a series of lectures as a Randolph Quirk Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (May 19-23, 2025) They evolved around the general theme of "What do humans know when they use language?" Workshop 1: How do children acquire knowledge of language use? (slides) Workshop 2: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we talk to ourselves? (slides) Workshop 3: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we express emotions? (slides)Public lecture: Language makes us think AI knows stuff (slides) "The acquisition of interactional language and what it tells us about the architecture of grammar." (slides) Invited speaker at The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. May 7-9 2025, UNED Madrid "What markedness patterns in polar questions reveal about the syntax-pragmatics interface." Polar Question Form[s] Across Languages, April 24-25, 2025: University of Amsterdam 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)
"Linguistic evidence for different modes of self-talk and what it might tell us about inner speech." online talk at the Inner Speech Colloquium. June 26, 2025 (slides
“Three syntactic pathways to honorificity: Towards a typology of marking politeness”, Online talk at the lecture series on Syntactic Pathways to Morphology, Sao Paolo June 10, 2025 (slides) "Towards a typology of emotive markers: a case study of puta, damn and scheisse." Online talk with Nicolás Rivera Bobadilla. at the SADAF group SADAF group of the University of Buenos Aires. (June 4th 2025) (slides)
I presented a series of lectures as a Randolph Quirk Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (May 19-23, 2025) They evolved around the general theme of "What do humans know when they use language?" Workshop 1: How do children acquire knowledge of language use? (slides) Workshop 2: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we talk to ourselves? (slides) Workshop 3: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we express emotions? (slides)Public lecture: Language makes us think AI knows stuff (slides) "The acquisition of interactional language and what it tells us about the architecture of grammar." (slides) Invited speaker at The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. May 7-9 2025, UNED Madrid "What markedness patterns in polar questions reveal about the syntax-pragmatics interface." Polar Question Form[s] Across Languages, April 24-25, 2025: University of Amsterdam 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)
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