Research
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Publications
Proceedings Papers
Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a functional approach. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 29. 2024.
Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: cumulation vs. buildups. Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 3. 2024. [download]
Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: an `individual concept’ approach. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 34. 2024. [download]
Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: the case of cumulation. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. 2024. [download]
Modal ingredients of causative `have’. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. 2023. [download]
with Esmail Moghiseh \& Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Against Obligatory Wide Scope for `Any’. Proceedings of the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 2021. [download]
with Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Numeral `Any’: In Favor of Viability. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. 2020. [download]
Presentations
2024
Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a functional approach [Invited talk]. Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Noto, Sicily.
Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: cumulation vs. buildups [Poster Presentation]. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: an `individual concept’ approach [Poster Presentation]. 34th Annual Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Rochester, New York.
Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: the case of cumulation [Invited Talk]. 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2023
Tensed clauses as scope islands [Invited Talk]. The Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop, Montreal, Quebec.
Modal ingredients of causative `have’ [Invited Talk]. 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Göttingen, Germany.
2021
Unifying English causative and experiencer have: the affected argument [Invited Talk]. The annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Conference, Hamilton, Ontario.
with Esmail Moghiseh \& Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Against Obligatory Wide Scope for `Any’ [Poster Presentation]. The 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona.
2020
with Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Numeral `Any’: In Favor of Viability [Poster Presentation]. 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, Montreal, Quebec.
Manuscripts
- Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: paper exploring whether universal quantifiers can covertly scope shift out of relative clauses.
- Exceptional wide scope as cumulation: paper exploring whether universal quantifiers can covertly scope shift out of tensed clauses
- have causatives always project possibilities from facts: paper exploring the properties of causative have constructions, particularly the modal components (joint work with Luis Alonso-Ovalle)
- Covert reciprocals: paper exploring the treatment of covert reciprocals in English (joint work with Brendan Gillon and David Nicolas)
- Against obligatory wide scope for any: paper exploring the scopal properties of free choice any (joint work with Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh)