Here is an overview of the talks I have given (or am going to give) since 2000 (ordered chronologically). For all talks since 2006 you can also download the handout. If you are interested in the handout of an earlier talk, or if you have any other questions or comments, you can always contact me.
2009
[Title TBA]. Linguistics Colloquium,
UMass at Amherst, USA, April 2009. (invited talk)
What sluicing can do, what it can’t
and where. On the cross-linguistic syntax of ellipsis. With Anikó Lipták. Diagnosing syntax: perspectives, procedures
and tools. University of Leiden & Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
January 2009. (invited talk)
2008
What does silence look like? On the unpronounced syntax of sluicing. Syntax Reading Group talk, University of Chicago, USA, December 2008. (invited talk)
About something. Towards a syntactic decomposition of polarity. Syntax Supper, CUNY Graduate Center, USA, November 2008. (invited talk)
On becoming a pronoun. Towards a unified theory of ellipsis. With Mark Baltin. The 10th CUNY/SUNY/NYU/YU-miniconference. CUNY Graduate Center, USA, November 2008.
Much ado about something. Polarity, widening and N-of-N. Brown Bag talk, NYU, USA, November 2008.
On becoming a pronoun. With Mark Baltin. Brown Bag talk, NYU, USA, November 2008.
More ado about nothing: sluicing, copular clauses and case. Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz, USA, October 2008. (invited talk)
Invisible optionality: on the recoverability and licensing requirements of sluicing. Linguistics Colloquium, Yale University, USA, October 2008. (invited talk)
On the limits of elliptical repair: sluicing, clefts and
LF-copy. MUST-talk, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands, April 2008. (invited talk)
There’s something about
something. A polarity sensitive N-of-N-construction in dialect Dutch. Annual
Linguistics in the Netherlands Meeting,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, February 2008.
2007
Invisible syntax.
Sluicing, clefts and LF-copy. Syntax Seminar, University of Leiden, December
2007. (invited talk)
What lies beneath. On
the hidden syntax of sluicing. Brown Bag talk, NYU, New York, USA, December
2007. (invited talk)
Something about
something. Manufacturing polarity items in Dutch. Microvariation in DP, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, October
2007. (invited talk)
Object agreement and
raising in dialect Dutch imperatives. With Marjo van Koppen. CGSW 22, University of Stuttgart, Germany, June 2007.
Ellipsis bleeding movement:
the interrogative suffix in Hungarian. With Anikó Lipták. The 8th
International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, CUNY Graduate Center/CUNY Queens college/NYU,
New York, USA, May 2007.
Where do wh-phrases go
in a split CP? CLS 43,
University of Chicago, USA, May 2007.
PF-deletion vs. pro: towards a unified theory of ellipsis. LingLunch
talk, University of Chicago,
USA, May 2007. (invited talk)
On the interaction
between verb movement and ellipsis: new evidence from Hungarian. With Anikó Lipták.
WCCFL 26, University of
California at Berkeley, USA, April 2007.
Feature inheritance and
multiple phase boundaries. With Marjo van Koppen. GLOW 30, CASTL, University of Tromsö, Norway, April
2007.
Transitivity in the
Venetian left periphery: a challenge for cartography. The 2nd
Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, Cambridge University, Great Britain, January 2007.
2006
Silence in the left
periphery: on the cross-linguistic syntax of sluicing. With Anikó Lipták. Edges
in Syntax, Cyprus College,
Cyprus, May 2006.
Complex wh-phrases don't
move: the interaction between the split CP-hypothesis and the syntax of
wh-movement. Alternate paper. Edges in Syntax, Cyprus College, Cyprus, May 2006.
Repel your way out of
transitivity failures. Staff Seminar Grammatical Models Group, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, April
2006. (invited talk)
Clitic doubling and
coordination: towards a micro-typology of pronominal doubling in Dutch
dialects. With Marjo van Koppen. Syntactic Doubling in European Dialects
Workshop, Meertens Institute,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2006. (invited talk)
Transitivity allures in
the left periphery and foot-driven movement chains. Annual Linguistics in
the Netherlands Meeting, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands, February 2006.
Verb movement bled by
ellipsis: morphological evidence from Hungarian. With Anikó Lipták. Annual
Linguistics in the Netherlands Meeting,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, February 2006.
2005
Guess what about?
Adverbial modifiers and the syntax of sluicing, Sounds of Silence workshop, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, October
2005.
Empty relatives and the
typology of sluicing. With Anikó Lipták. Sounds of Silence workshop, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, October
2005.
The verb leaves IP in
subject initial V2. With Liliane Haegeman. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Association of Great Britain,
Cambridge University, Great Britain, August/September 2005.
Adverbial modification
under sluicing. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Konkuk University, South-Korea, August 2005.
Ellipsis in Hungarian
and the typology of sluicing. With Anikó Lipták. Seoul International
Conference on Generative Grammar.
Konkuk University, South-Korea, August 2005.
If control raises, it
fails to copy, reconstruct or linearize. With Johan Rooryck en Guido Vanden
Wyngaerd. New horizons in the grammar of raising and control. Harvard University, USA, July 2005.
2004
PF-deletion versus pro: a tentative and speculative bird’s eye view. ULCL
Workshop on ellipsis, gaps and empty categories, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, October
2004.
PF-deletion versus pro: new evidence from Dutch dialects. Annual
Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Surrey, Roehampton, Great
Britain, August/September 2004.
Stranding under sluicing
and the structure of the left periphery in Germanic. Colloquium talk.
University of Tübingen, Germany, July 2004. (invited talk)
2003
Stranding under
sluicing. NELS 34, Stony
Brook, USA, November 2003.
Sluicing in Dutch
dialects and the structure of the left periphery. CGSW 18, Durham University, Great Britain, September
2003.
2002
Congruentie
en lokaliteit in de Nederlandse dialecten. With Marjo van Koppen. Taal en
Tongval Colloquium, Royal
Flemish Academy for Dutch Linguistics and Literature, Ghent, November 2002.
C-agreement.
With Marjo van Koppen. Hungarian-Dutch workshop, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, October
2002.
The locality of
agreement and the CP-domain. With Marjo van Koppen. GLOW 25, Meertens Institute/ Utrecht University, The
Netherlands, April 2002.
2001
A
new approach to comp-agreement.
With Marjo van Koppen. Syntactic Microvariation Workshop, University of Freiburg, Germany,
November/December 2001.
The left periphery in
three southern Dutch dialects. With Marjo van Koppen. CGSW 16, University of Montréal, Canada, May 2001.
Why cliticisation to C°
is not complementizer agreement. With Marjo van Koppen. Annual Linguistics
in the Netherlands Meeting,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, February 2001.
2000
Pronominal subject
doubling in Dutch dialects. With Marjo van Koppen. 9th Conference
of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), Lund University, Norway, December 2000.
Dutch
clitics and phonology. With Marjo van Koppen. Phonologica Lvgdvno Batavorum
Extra Muros MM, Meertens
Institute, The Netherlands, September 2000.
On
subject clitic doubling and object clitic placement in Dutch dialects. With
Marjo van Koppen. Syntactic Microvariation Workshop, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
August 2000.
Van as a marker of dissociation: microvariation in
Dutch. CGSW 15, University of
Groningen, The Netherlands, May 2000.
Complementerend van: microvariatie in het Nederlands. Annual Linguistics
in the Netherlands Meeting,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, February 2000.
Be- opnieuw beargumenteerd. With Ineke van der
Meulen. Annual Linguistics in the Netherlands Meeting, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, February
2000.