Presentations

Presentations by SynSem people

  • June, 2022.
    Kristie Denlinger and Stephen Wechsler. A frequency-based account of kind-denoting participle modifiers in English. Workshop on the Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles X, June 16th-17th, University of Greenwich, London.
  • June, 2022
    John Beavers. TBA. Keynote at the Workshop on the Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles X, June 16th-17th, University of Greenwich, London.
  • April, 2022
    Caitie Coons. “Be as Literal as Possible”: How Literal Language Creates Barriers to Due Process for Deaf Defendants. Panel on Access to and Access through Sign Languages, Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2022, Boulder, CO.
  • February 26, 2022
    David Beaver. Author meets critics session on The Politics of Language: An essay in non-ideal theory, at Central Division APA 2022.
  • February 23, 2022
    John Beavers, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, and Scott Spicer. Degrees and Standards in the Roots and Templates of Change-of-State Verbs. Workshop on Change of State Verbs — Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives, Annual German Linguistic Society – DGfS 2022, February 23-25, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. (Joint work with Andrew Koontz-Garboden)
  • January 7, 2022
    Kristie Denlinger. Five-minute linguist presentation. LSA Annual Meeting.
  • January, 2022
    Caitie Coons. Relative Clause Typology Across Signed and Spoken Languages. Linguistic Society of America 96th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
  • November 18, 2021
    John Beavers. The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations. Cambridge University.
  • November 18, 2021
    Scott Spicer. The causative-inchoative alternation is morphosemantically sensitive. Workshop on Linguistic Variations at the Interfaces II, Barcelona.
  • November 13, 2021
    James Tandy. ‘Evaluating Mayan perfect -b’il as a Lowland diffusion.’ Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 6, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (Online).
  • October 21, 2021
     James Tandy. ‘Poqomam p’ as a “stone soup” phonological borrowing.’ New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49, University of Texas at Austin (Online).
  • July 2, 2021
    David Beaver. Two minutes hate, at International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Keynote, 2021. 
  • April 11, 2021
    John Beavers, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, and Scott Spicer. Degrees and Standards in the Meanings of Roots. 39th West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics, April 11, University of Arizona. (joint work with Andrew Koontz-Garboden)
  • April 1, 2021
    John Beavers. ‘Degrees and Standards in the Roots and Templates of Change-of-State Verbs.’ Nouvelles perspectives sur l’aspect: du « modèle slave » vers les autres langues, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, France.
  • March 24, 2021
    David Beaver. Oppressive Resonance, at Oppressive Practices & Norms: Speech Acts, Conversational Dynamics, ZAS, Berlin, 2021.
  • January 29, 2021
    David Beaver. From Dog Whistles to Bullhorns, at Silencing, Speaking up & Free Speech, ZAS, Berlin, 2021
  • January 16, 2021
    John Beavers. Applicativization and Root-Sensitivity in Argument Alternations. Abralin ao Vivo, Brazilian Association of Linguistics.
  • September 18, 2020
    John Beavers. Event Structures and The Semantic Typology of Verbal Roots Across Languages. Colloquium talk, Linguistics Department, Seoul National University.
  • September 15, 2020
    Scott Spicer. An experimental argument for causative-inchoative derivationality. Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar Workshop, Oxford.
  • March, 2020
    Caitie Coons. The Deaf as a linguistic minority in police interactions: Wisconsin v. Hind- sley. American Association for Applied Linguistics 2020, Denver, CO. (Canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
  • February 14, 2020
    James Tandy. ‘Innovation and Contact in the K’iche’an Mayan Perfect: The case of -maj.’ Texas Linguistics Society XIX, University of Texas at Austin.
  • January, 2020
    John Beavers, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, and Scott Spicer. Degrees and Standards in the Roots and Templates of Change-of-State Verbs. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2-5, New Orleans, LA. (joint work with Andrew Koontz-Garboden)