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• [May 6-8, 2021]     A theory of null subjects and its implications for the selective opacity of adjuncts. 57th Annual                                         Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 57). University of Chicago. 

• Dec. 10-11, 2020   Cancelled. Workshop on the Argument Structure of Adverbs and Prepositions (WASSAP 5).                                             Research Center on Basque Language (IKER), CNRS.  Bayonne, Basque Country.

• May 2019               The privileged roles of Person and Perspective: the case of anaphora.  Workshop: On Person and                                    Perspective. University of Southern California.

• April 2019              When exceptions and rules co-exist: the case of indexical shift. Princeton Symposium on Syntactic                                 Theory (PSST) 2019. Princeton University.

• Sept. 2018             What agreement and person asymmetries can tell us about anaphora. LinG1:Agreement &                                               Anaphoricity. University of Göttingen.

• Sept 2018              Unequal anaphors: the privileged place of person & perspective. WorkshopANA-LOG (Anaphoricity                                   and Logophoricity). Harvard University.

• April 2018              Silent pro-forms in competition: tracing PRO and pro to a single source (based on joint work with                                   Thomas McFadden). Pronouns in Competition Workshop. UCSC.

• June 2017              A new hybrid approach to indexical shift: modelling variation and exceptions to Shift Together. The                                  Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 4). University of Gothenburg.

• May 2016               On the grammar of Monsters and Imposters: two types of mismatch. Studentische Tagung                                               Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), Universität Leipzig.

• April 2016              Proxy control: a new species of obligatory control under modality” (based on joint work with Aaron                                 Doliana). NonFinite Subjects Conference, Université de Nantes, France.

• June 2015              Perspectival anaphora and predication. Workshop on “Perspective and context-shift in language",                                    Universität Köln.

• Jan. 2015               Interactions between dependencies: phi-features, reference, and agreement. Workshop on Case                                       and Phi-features. Department of theoretical and applied linguistics. University of Cambridge.

• Sept. 2011             Clausal (in)dependence, subject (in)dependence, and Case. Workshop on Case and Related Issues,                                    University of Lund, Sweden.

• March 26, 2021:   TBD. Syntax Reading Group. UMass, Amherst. 

• March 16, 2021:    On proxy control: a new form of control in grammar. HUJI Linguistics Colloquium. Hebrew                                                  University. 

• March 4, 2021:      Deriving varieties of C-agreement (with Thomas McFadden). Leiden Comparative Syntax (ComSyn)                                     talks series. University of Leiden.

• Feb. 9, 2021:          Guest seminar on path-based locality and selective opacity. (based on joint work with Thomas                                           McFadden & Hedde Zeijlstra). University of Göttingen.

• Jan. 21, 2021         Towards a path-based theory of syntactic locality and selective opacity (with Thomas McFadden). V-                                 NYI  Winter Institute, St. Petersburg. 

• Dec. 3, 2020           Flash-mob discussion on anaphora (with Eric Reuland). Linguistics Flash-Mobs.

• June 2020              Some linguistic puzzles from Tamil: what they can teach us and why we should care. Job Talk.                                           Stonybrook  University (SUNY).

• ​March 2020           Surprising agreements: the Anaphor Agreement Effect. Job Talk. University of British Columbia.

• March. 2020          Indexical shift and the grammar of intensionality. Job talk. University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

• Feb. 2020               Indexical shift and the grammar of intensionality. Job talk. University of Southern California. 

• Feb. 2020               Indexical shift and the grammar of intensionality. Job talk. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

• Dec. 2019               Deriving selective opacity for adjuncts vs. complements via path-based locality” (with Thomas                                           McFadden). University of Vienna.

• Dec. 2019               Deriving selective opacity for adjuncts vs. complements via path-based locality” (with Thomas                                           McFadden). University College London.

• Nov. 2019               An alternative theory of indexical shift. University of Cambridge. 

• Nov. 2019              Deriving Selective Opacity via Path-based Locality (with Thomas McFadden). University of Edinburgh.

• March 2019           A single source for PRO and pro (with Thomas McFadden). Georgetown University.

• March 2019           When exceptions and rules co-exist: accommodating Shift Together & its exceptions in indexical                                         shift. University of Maryland.

• March 2018           An Alternative Treatment of Indexical Shift: Modelling Shift Together Exceptions, Dual Contexts, and                                  Selectional Variation, MIT Linguistics Colloquium. MIT.

• Oct. 2017               Proxy control: extending the typology of control in grammar” (joint work with Aaron Doliana).                                             Linguistics Colloquium Series. Universität zu Köln.

• June 2016             Anaphora vs. Agreement: Investigating the Anaphor Agreement Effect” (DFG Project SU 835/1 & ZE                                   1040/3). With Guru Jegan Murugesan, Louise Raynaud, and Hedde Zeijlstra. Colloquium Talk.                                             University of Göttingen.

• June 2016             Anaphora vs. Agreement: Introducing a new Anaphor Agreement Effect. Oberseminar lecture.                                            University of Göttingen.

• May 2016              Locality vs. perspective: the curious case of reflexives in Tamil. HSS Linguistics Colloquium, Indian                                    Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India.

• Jan. 2016              Proxy Control (with Aaron Doliana). Syntaxzirkel, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin.

• June 2015             Failure to control isn’t a failure: it’s pro” (joint work with Thomas McFadden). University                                                       of Göttingen.

• May 2014              A plea for syntax: monstrous agreement. Semantikzirkel, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin.

• Feb. 2014              Anaphors in disagreement: inside the Anaphor Agreement Effect.” University of Olomouc, Olomouc.

• June 2013             Perspectival features in the syntax: unifying logophoricity and anaphoricity. UMass, Amherst.

• May 2013              A perspectival model of anaphora. UiL OTS Syntax-Interface Meetings,University of Utrecht.

• April 2013             Perspectival features in syntax: unifying logophoricity & anaphoricity. Job Talk. Universität                                                  Leipzig.

• April 2013             Giving syntax a perspective unifies logophoricity and anaphoricity.” University of Göttingen.

• Aug. 2012             Monsters are more agreeable than anaphors: An argument from Tamil for the morphosyntactic                                         representation of contextual features in clausal embedding. Job Talk. Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin.

• Jan. 2012             Nominative case, finiteness and subject (in)dependence” (with Thomas McFadden). UCSC.

• Jan. 2011             Against the dependence of nominative case on finiteness” (with Thomas McFadden). JNU, Delhi.

• April 2010            What syncretism and allomorphy can tell us about syntax-morphology mapping” (with Thomas                                         McFadden). New York University.

• March 2010         An allomorphy hypothesis for the PRO/anaphor distinction. CASTL Colloquium Series, University of                                   Tromsø.

• March 2009         DP distribution and control: selection instead of Case” (with Thomas Mc-Fadden). English and Foreign                               Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad.

• March 2009         Structure, sound, meaning, and context: linguistics and its interfaces withina Minimalist framework”                                 (with Thomas McFadden). Centre for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, India.

• April 2021. On certain crosslinguistic variations: Universal fseq vs. Gricean reasoning (with Thomas McFadden &                              Hedde Zeijlstra). Targeted Collaborative Debate. GLOW 44.

• March 2020   Adjunct islands and the interplay of theoretical and empirical factors in refining universal claims” (with                         Thomas McFadden and Hedde Zeijlstra). Workshop (AG 4): Empirical consequences of universal claims                           in grammatical theorizing. DGfS 2020. University of Hamburg.

• May 2019       Deriving selective opacity in adjuncts (with Thomas McFadden and Hedde Zeijlstra). GLOW 42 Main                                 Colloquium. Oslo.

• Sept. 2018     Unorthodox C-domain agreements: complementizer agreement vs. allocutive agreement” (with Thomas                        McFadden). CGSW 33, University of Göttingen.

• April 2018     Unequal anaphors in an enriched person system. WCCFL 36. UCLA.

• April 2018     Modelling selectional variation for indexical shift. GLOW 41 (Main Colloquium). Research Institute for                              Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

• Dec. 2017      Distinct featural classes of anaphor against an enriched person system. BCGL 10: The morphology and                          semantics of person and number. CRISSP, Brussels.

• Nov. 2017      Modelling selectional variation for indexical shift. Selection Fest. Humboldt Universität & Leibniz-ZAS,                            Berlin.

• Feb. 2017      Binding and agreement in Icelandic ECM constructions: from nominative reflexives to pronouns (with                              Gurujegan Murugesan, Louise Raynaud, and Hedde Zeijlstra). Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns.                                      Hungary Academy of Sciences, Debrecen. 

• Feb. 2017      PERSON: motivating a four-way distinction & binary features. GLOW-in-Asia XI. National University of                              Singapore.

• Feb. 2017      Introducing “proxy control”: a new form of obligatory control” (with Aaron Doliana). GLOW-in-Asia XI.                                National University of Singapore.

• Feb. 2017      Binding and agreement in Icelandic ECM constructions: from nominative reflexives to pronouns (with                              Gurujegan Murugesan, Louise Raynaud, and Hedde Zeijlstra). Anaphora Resolution In Sign And Spoken                          languages: theoretical and experimental dimensions (ARISAS) Workshop. University of                                                      Göttingen.

• Nov./Dec. 2016 Proxy Control (with Aaron Doliana). 31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 31).                                      Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• Oct. 2016       Proxy Control (with Aaron Doliana). 32nd annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical                                     Linguistics (IATL 32). Hebrew University ofJerusalem, Israel.

• Aug./Sept. 2016   The four-way person distinction: evidence from anaphora. Workshop on “Notions of ‘feature’ in                                 linguistic theory: cross-theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives.” SLE 2016. Naples.

• April/May 2016 When grammatical perspective and reflexives meet: evidence from Tamil(Accepted but not                                           presented). WCCFL 34, University of Utah.

• April 2016      Obligatorily Control is fallible: failure of OC PRO yields pro” (with ThomasMcFadden). GLOW 39 (Main                               Session), University of Göttingen.

• April 2016      Perspective and reflexivity: why reflexives resist being perspectival”. GLOW39 (Workshop I:                                               Perspectivization), University of Göttingen.

• April 2016      Subject alternations in non-finite clauses: OC PRO vs. pro (with Thomas McFadden). NonFinite Subjects                         Conference, Université de Nantes, France.

• Jan. 2016       Obligatory Control under modality: Real Exceptions to Visser’s Generalisation and ‘Proxy’ control” (with                           Aaron Doliana). Pronouns: Morphosyntax, Semantics, Processing, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.

• Jan. 2016       A unified treatment of two silent pronouns:provs. PRO” (with Thomas McFadden). Pronouns:                                             Morphosyntax, Semantics, Processing, UniversidadeFederal da Bahia, Brazil.

• Oct. 2015        Failure to control isn’t a failure: it’s pro (with Thomas McFadden). NELS 46, University of Montreal,                                   Canada.

• Sept. 2015      Accepted but not presented: “Failure to control isn’t a failure: it’s pro” (with Thomas McFadden).                                       Workshop - How to Make Things Happen in the Grammar: the Implementation of Obligatoriness.                                     TbiLLC 2015. Tbilisi, Georgia.

• Sept. 2015      Accepted but not presented: Asymmetry effects as a movement diagnostic in ditransitives. LAGB                                      Annual Meeting 2015, University College, London.

• May 2015        The finiteness/pro-drop generalization. Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCos) 4, University of                                    Cambridge.

• April 2015       Different routes to reflexivity: Voice vs. Perspective. The Fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian                                      Languages Workshop (FASAL 5), Yale University.

• March 2015    Prosodic EPP, no formal features!” (with Thomas McFadden). AG 3: Whatdrives syntactic computation?                            Alternatives to formal features. DGfS 37,Universität Leipzig.

• Sept. 2014      Towards a syntax-semantics of linguistic perspective” (with Hazel Pearson). LAGB Annual Meeting                                  2014, Oxford.

• July 2014        Accepted but not presented: Isolating default nominative case from the distractions of finiteness and                             control (with Thomas McFadden). 1st Seminar on Control and Finiteness at USP, São Paulo, Brazil.

• June 2014       In support of an articulated event layer” (with Thomas McFadden). OlomoucLinguistics Colloquium                                  (Olinco), University of Olomouc, Czech Republic.

• April 2014       In support of an articulated event layer (with Thomas McFadden). GLOW37 (main session), CRISSP,                                 Brussels.

• Feb. 2014       A new type of Anaphor Agreement Effect. Agreement Workshop, Recife.

• Nov. 2013       A new type of Anaphor Agreement Effect: insights into the form-meaning                                                                             connection. Pronouns@Tübingen, Universität of Tübingen.

• Oct. 2013        In support of an articulated v layer: evidence from Tamil. Little v workshop, University of Leiden.

• Oct. 2013        Perspectival binding: a Dravidian perspective into Germanic. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop                           (CGSW), Universität Leipzig.

• Sept. 2013      Accepted but not presented. Perspectives on reflexivity and the get-passive:new insights from                                         Tamil. Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP),University of Paris 7.

• Sept. 2013      Accepted but not presented. A perspectival strategy to reflexivity: the Tamil kol morpheme. Workshop:                           Challenging reflexive strategies, SLE 46, University of Split, Croatia.

• March 2013    A syntactic treatment of logophoricity and anaphoricity: evidence from verbal agreement. GLOW 36                                 (main session), University of Lund, Sweden.

• Dec. 2011      The functional projections of monsters.” State of the Sequence 2, CASTL,University of Tromsø.

• Aug. 2011      Reflexivity vs. Reflexivity effects: a unified syntactico-semantics for Dravidian kol. World of Reflexives                            workshop, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

• May 2011       A plea for syntax: monsters, agreement, and de se. The 21st Semantics and Linguistics Theory                                        Conference (SALT 21), Rutgers.

• April 2011     A syntactic feature-calculus and double-access analysis for indexical shift inTamil. GLOW 34, Vienna,                              Austria.

• Feb. 2011      Monstrous agreement, de se attitudes, anaphora: evidence from Tamil. DGFS 11: Grammar of Attitudes,                          University of Göttingen.

• Dec. 2010      Nominative case is independent of finiteness and agreement” (joint talk withThomas McFadden), BCGL5,                        Case at the Interfaces, Brussels.

• Dec. 2010     Accepted but not presented. An allomorphy hypothesis for pro and overt anaphors. On Linguistic                                     Interfaces II (OnLI II), Ulster, UK.

• Oct. 2010      Monstrous agreement, anaphora, and context: evidence from Tamil. NELS41, University of Pennsylvania.

• Sept. 2010    Monstrous agreement: a peculiar binding phenomenon in Tamil. Workshop on Peculiar Binding                                       Configurations, Universität Stuttgart.

• Aug. 2010     Monstrous agreement and anaphora. GLOW-in-Asia VIII, Beijing.

• June 2010    PRO and anaphors are syntactically conditioned allomorphs. Workshop onTheoretical Morphology 5,                               Wittenberg.

• June 2010     Monstrous agreement: evidence from Tamil. Workshop: “Between you and me: local pronouns across                            modalities, Nijmegen.

• May 2010     A reductionist treatment of control and anaphora. Linguists of Tomorrow, Nicosia.

• Dec. 2009     A phase-based account of the PRO/anaphor distinction. ConSOLE XVIII, Barcelona.

• Oct. 2009      Control and anaphora: a reductionist treatment. South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) XXVIII, Denton.

• June 2009    DPs are selected, not licensed: evidence from Tamil and other languages”(with Thomas McFadden).                               Syntax Workshop, “Roots” conference, Universität Stuttgart.

• May 2009     A selectional account of DP distribution (with Thomas McFadden). Generative Grammatik des Südens                            (GGS), Leipzig.

• Oct. 2008     Nominative subjects in Tamil nonfinite clauses (with Thomas McFadden). South Asian Language Analysis                     (SALA) roundtable meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.

• April 2006   Dative alternation in Tamil: a non-derivational approach. WCCFL 25, Seattle, Washington.

• Feb. 2006    Two argument structures for Tamil ditransitives.” 30th Penn LinguisticsColloquium (PLC), UPenn.

• April 2005   A unified semantic analysis of the -aa marker in Tamil. Penn WorkingGroup in Language (PWGL), UPenn. 

• Spring 2004 Negation in Tamil and issues of scope and NPI licensing” (with Sudha Arunachalam). South Asian                                   Language Analysis (SALA) roundtable, Austin.