Presentations and lectures

  1. TBA. Invited talk. Workshop: Diagnosing Syntax: Perspectives, procedures, and tools. Leiden University and Utrecht University. 29-31 January 2009.
  2. Multiple wh-fronting and spurious coordination. Graduate Alumni Conference. University of California, Santa Cruz. 12-13 September 2008.
  3. TBA. Invited talk. Workshop on context and communication. Leverhulme Foundation workshop series. Kent University, England, Sept 20, 2008.
  4. Implicit arguments. Invited talk. Workshop: Argument Structure. 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 10). Seoul, Korea. 31 July-2 August 2008.
  5. Why ellipsis is a problem for surface lexicalism. Invited talk. Workshop on elliptical constructions. U Jussieu, Paris, 20 June 2008.
  6. PF and LF locality: Evidence from Greek comparatives. Invited talk. Maryland Mayfest: Islands and wh-movement. University of Maryland, College Park. 9-11 May 2008.
  7. Aleut case matters. (handout) Pragmatics, Grammatical Interfaces, and Jerry Sadock Conference. University of Chicago, 2-3 May 2008.
  8. Explorations of the dark side of ellipsis. Invited talk. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. April 4, 2008.
  9. Consequences of voice mismatch asymmetries in ellipsis: Bad news for strict lexicalism. Invited talk. Syntax Circle, Leiden University (Meertens Institute, Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Leiden). March 28, 2008.
  10. Syntax is simple, but also abstact. Invited talk, Northeastern Illinois University. 5 March 2008.
  11. Nonsententials and moderate contextualism. Workshop on Context-dependence, perspective and relativity in language and thought, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. November 9-11, 2007.
  12. Spurious coordination in Vlach multiple wh-fronting. (handout) Mid-America Linguistics Conference. University of Kansas, Lawrence. October 26-28, 2007.
  13. Three kinds of ellipsis: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic?. Invited talk, Semantics workshop. Rutgers University. 5-6 October 2007.
  14. Voice and ellipsis. Invited departmental talk, New York University. 4 October 2007.
  15. Greek comparatives: Implications for the architecture of grammar. 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Ioannina, Greece. August 29, 2007.
  16. The syntax of voice and implicit indefinite arguments. (handout) Invited talk, 'Funny indefinites: Workshop on Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages'. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Center for General Linguistics), Berlin. 7 July 2007.
  17. Metalinguistic comparison in Greek. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Invited talk, Potsdam University. 6 July 2007.
  18. On varieties of abstractness in syntax. Invited talk, Tübingen University. 4 July 2007.
  19. What's in a name? On the syntax of names, NPs, and pronouns. Keynote lecture, Linguistics at Santa Cruz, March 3, 2007.
  20. VP-ellipsis is VP ellipsis; pseudogapping is vP ellipsis. 83rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, Ca. January 2007.
  21. Syntactic abstractness in ellipsis: Sluicing, wh-movement, islands. Ealing 4, Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Superieure. Paris, France. 18-22 September 2006.
  22. On the identity conditions in ellipsis: Evidence from voice mismatches and islands in VPE, sluicing, and comparatives. Ellipsis workshop, University of Stuttgart, Germany. 24 July 2006.
  23. Voice heads, multiple case, and the abstractness of syntax. Invited speaker. 42nd meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Parasession on case and voice. Chicago, Ill. April 2006.
  24. Variable island sensitivity in Greek phrasal and clausal comparatives. With Anastasia Giannakidou. 80th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 2006.
  25. Organized session: Ellipsis. With Christopher Kennedy. Invited speakers: Howard Lasnik, Peter Culicover, Sandra Chung, James McCloskey, William Ladusaw, Ivan Sag. 80th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 2006.
  26. LF redux? Invited colloquium talk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. November 2005.
  27. The genetic and neural bases of language. Humanities Open House, University of Chicago. October 2005.
  28. Revisiting syntactic identity conditions (handout). Invited speaker. Workshop on ellipsis. University of California, Berkeley. October 2005.
  29. Lectures on ellipsis (16 hours). Invited speaker, 7th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar (SICOGG 7). Seoul, South Korea. August 2005.
  30. On the role of unpronounced syntactic structures (handout). Invited talk, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 2005.
  31. On the role of unpronounced syntactic structures. Invited talk, Stanford University. March 2005.
  32. Do we need unpronounced syntactic structures? Invited colloquium talk, Harvard University. December 2004.
  33. Do we need unpronounced syntactic structures? Invited colloquium talk, University of California at Los Angeles. November 2004.
  34. Towards a taxonomy of elliptical repair. Workshop on morphosyntax, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2004. (Invited presentation.)
  35. How to say nothing. Invited colloquium talk, Michigan State University. April 2004.
  36. Fragments and ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, Indiana University. December 2003.
  37. A deletion solution to the ‘sloppy ellipsis’ puzzle (handout). 78th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Mass. January 2004.
  38. Fragments and ellipsis. Workshop on nonsententials, Wayne State University. September 2003.
  39. Fragmentarische Ausdrücke: Ellipse oder Anlass zu einer neuen Theorie der Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle? Workshop on ellipsis and focus, Tübingen University, Germany. July 2003.
  40. Fragments and ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, University of Patras, Greece. May 2003.
  41. Resumptivity and non-movement. 24th Annual Meeting on Greek Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. May 2003.
  42. Ellipsis and ‘nonsentential speech’. 16th international symposium of theoretical and applied linguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. April 2003.
  43. Linguistic and philosophical implications of fragments. Ellipsis workshop. University of California, Santa Cruz. January 2003.
  44. Fragmentary thoughts. Workshop on ellipsis, Kaken group. Kyushu University, Japan. December 2002.
  45. Fragments and the syntax-semantics interface. Invited colloquium talk, University of Maryland, College Park. September 2002.
  46. Eliminating modules in Minimalism. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Theoretical and experimental approaches to normal and impaired language. European Science Foundation, Corinth, Greece. June 2002.
  47. Modularity in the Minimalist Program. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Maryland Mayfest, University of Maryland at College Park. May 2002.
  48. Grammar sous rature. Invited colloquium talk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. April 2002.
  49. PF output constraints and elliptical repair in SAI comparatives. Presented at the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of California, Santa Cruz. April 2002.
  50. Illuminating the black hole of PF. Invited colloquium talk, University of Southern California. April 2002.
  51. Repair by deletion: Some puzzles from ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, University of Connecticut. March 2002.
  52. On selected repair effects. Workshop on ellipsis, Kaken Group, University of Kyoto. December 2001.
  53. Chomsky's theory of language. Humanities Open House, University of Chicago. October 2001.
  54. The syntax of silence, or Why silence is even more golden than we thought. Franke Institute New Faculty Series, University of Chicago. May 2001.
  55. The saving graces of ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May 2001.
  56. Delete and ye shall be saved! Workshop on ellipsis, Kaken Group, University of Kyoto. December 2000.
  57. Much ado about nothing, or, the story of E. Workshop on ellipsis, Kaken Group, University of Kyoto. December 2000.
  58. Sluicing and swiping in Germanic. Presented at the 15th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW). University of Groningen. May 2000.
  59. Guess what about? The syntax of ellipsis and islandhood [or, How to delete your way out of an island]. Invited talk, Northwestern University. May 2000.
  60. PF islands? Evidence from left-branch extractions and ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, University of Leiden. February 2000.
  61. Showdown on the semantics-phonology frontier: On saying nothing. Invited talk, University of Chicago. February 2000.
  62. The EPP as a PF-condition: Evidence from extraction out of subjects in sluicing. Presented at Taalkunde in Nederland (TIN)-Dag, Annual meeting of the Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap. University of Utrecht. February 2000.
  63. On the saving graces of ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, University of Groningen. January 2000.
  64. e-GIVENness vs. LF-identity in ellipsis. Invited talk, Workshop on ellipsis, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. November 1999.
  65. Ellipsis and the nature of islands. Invited colloquium talk, University of Chicago. October 1999.
  66. Deletion, sluicing, and the nature of islands. Invited colloquium talk, University of California, San Diego. May 1999.
  67. Sluicing out of islands? Syntactic and semantic explorations. Invited talk, University of California, Los Angeles. March 1999.
  68. Sluicing and the nature of islands or, the syntax of silence. Invited talk, University of Texas at Austin. March 1999.
  69. Resumptive operators, case, and sluicing. Presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the LSA; Los Angeles, California. January 1999.
  70. Case and identity in comparatives. With Chris Kennedy. Presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the LSA; Los Angeles, California. January 1999.
  71. Attributive comparatives, left branch extraction, and PF-deletion. With Chris Kennedy. Invited talk, Workshop on comparatives. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. November 1998.
  72. Islands, sluicing, and form-identity. Invited talk, Workshop on Coordination in Ellipsis. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. September 1998.
  73. On the extent of trace deletion in ACD. Presented at TABU-Dag, University of Groningen. June 1998.
  74. Deviant 'identity' in ellipsis: Vehicle change and the copy theory. Invited colloquium talk, Universität Tübingen. June 1998.
  75. Unbound variables under ellipsis and the syntax of sluicing. Invited colloquium talk, UiL/OTS, Utrecht Univ. March 1998.
  76. E-type A'-traces under sluicing. 17th annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. February 1998.
  77. Unbound variables under ellipsis and the syntax of sluicing. Invited colloquium talk, OOO, Leiden Univ. February 1998.
  78. Antecedent-contained deletion in negative polarity items. Taalkunde in Nederland (TIN)-Dag, Annual meeting of the Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap. Utrecht Univ. January 1998.
  79. Aspectual effects on donkey anaphora. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Presented at Sinn und Bedeutung (2nd annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semantik). Humboldt Univ. and Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. December 1997.
  80. 'Pseudosluicing': Elliptical clefts. Invited talk, Workshop on Syntax and Semantics of (Pseudo)Clefts. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. December 1997.
  81. Pronominal variables under ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. November 1997.
  82. Semantic and syntax-semantic interface issues in interrogatives: An overview. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Interface Questions group presentation, Univ. of Amsterdam. November 1997.
  83. Attributive comparatives and bound ellipsis. With Chris Kennedy. Presented at Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique de Paris (CSSP), Univ. of Paris-7. October 1997.
  84. The structure of sluices and the interpretation of wh-traces. Invited talk, Interfaces workshop, Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece. September 1997.
  85. Why Giannis can't scrub his plate clean: On the absence of resultative secondary predication in Greek. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Athens, Greece. September 1997.
  86. Anaphoric destressing and scrambling in Dutch and English. Poster presented at the Hopkins Optimality Theory workshop/Maryland Mayfest. Johns Hopkins Univ. and Univ. of Maryland. May 1997.
  87. An asymmetry in asymmetric donkey anaphora. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting on Greek Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. April 1997.
  88. Pronominal wh-traces under sluicing. Presented at the 71st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Chicago, Illinois. January 1997.
  89. Deviance from identity under ellipsis: The case of (multiple) sluicing. Invited colloquium talk given at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. October 1996.
  90. On the interpretation of null indefinite objects in Greek. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Presented at the 17th Annual Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece. April 1996.
  91. Reverse sluicing in English and Greek. With Anastasia Giannakidou. Presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Generative Linguists of the Old World (GLOW), Univ. of Athens, Greece. April 1996.
  92. Scrambling and quantifier float in German. Presented at the 26th annual meeting of the Northeastern Linguistic Society (NELS), Harvard and MIT. October 1995.
  93. MCat-PCat alignment and cyclic stress domains. Presented at Phonology Workshop, UCSC. April 1995.
  94. Noncrisp alignment: German [ç] and [x]. Presented at Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND), Stanford University. November? 1994.
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