Brent Henderson University of Florida

Presentations

INVITED TALKS

2012. More than Words: the need for a Development Approach to Language Revitalization. Invited talk given at Pomona College, 9/13/12

 

2012. Chimiini Instrumentals and the Typology of Applicatives in Bantu. Invited talk given at Pomona College, 9/14/12.

 

2011. War, Language Endangerment, and Ex Situ Documentation.  Invited talk given at Emory University, 3/2/11

 

2010.  When an Endangered Language Goes Global: the Case of Chimwiini. Invited talk at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, June 2010.

 

2010.  The Role of Local Languages in Refugee Communities and Development Work. Talk given at the founding of the student chapter of Survivors International at Exeter College, Oxford, June 17th, 2010

 

2009. African Languages and Syntactic Theory. Plenary talk at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Illinois, April 11th.

2008. What Makes Us Human? Two Perspectives from Linguistics. Christian Study Center, Gainesville, FL, September 22nd.

2006. Rethinking Resumption and Object Marking in Bantu. University of Florida, February 16th.

2006. Case-Agreement Asymmetries in Bantu. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. February 9th.

2005. Sources of Agreement and Case in Bantu. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. November 11th.

 
CONFERENCE AND COLLOQUIA PRESENTATIONS

2013. Local vs. Global Rules in the Chimwiini Perfective. Presentation at Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Massachussetts, 1/4/13.

 

2012. w/ C. Kisseberth. Instrumental applicatives in Chimwiini. Presentation at Linguistic Society of America, Portland, Oregon. 1/7/12

 

2012. War, language endangerment, and ex-situ documentation. Presentation at Linguistic Society of America, Portland, Oregon. 1/6/12. [NOTE: this talk was selected from hundreds of talks for LSA’s media advisory release advertising the conference]

 

2011. w/ Charles Kisseberth. Possessor and Possessum Raising in Chimiini. Presentation at the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/8/11

 

2011. Language Documentation in Refugee Immigrant Contexts. Presentation at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Univ of Hawaii Manoa, HI, 2/11/11

                

2011. Varieties of External Possession in Chimwiini. Talk given at Language Documentation and Linguistic theory, SOAS, London, 11/ 19/11

 

2011. Is ex-situ documentation valid?  Language documentation in immigrant and refugee communities. Talk given at Language Documentation and Linguistic theory, SOAS, London, 11/20/11.

 

2010. Out of Context: Language Documentation in Refugee and Recent Immigrant Communities, presentation at the workshop Africa’s Response to Language Endangerment, University of Florida, 12/3/10.

 

2009. Anti-agreement: locality of movement or locality of agreement? Presented at the Chicago Linguistics Society annual meeting, April 16^th-18^th.

 

2009. Copy Control in Chimwiini?  Presented at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference (workshop on Bantu syntax), Columbia, MO, Oct. 9-11^th.

 

2008. Differential Object Marking in Tigre and Tigrinya. Presented at National Conference on Afro-asiatic Linguistics, Chicago, IL, March 21-23.

 

2008. Agreement, Case, and Focus in Bantu OVS Clauses. Presented at the Movement and Word Order in Bantu conference, Leiden, March 7-9.

 

2007. Perception and Linguistic Structure. Presented at Biolinguistic Investigations, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 22-25.

 

2007. Anti-Agreement and Person in Bantu. Presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Florida, March 22-24^th.

 

2006. Case, Agreement and Concord in Bantu. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 80), Albuquerque, NM. January 5-8^th.

 

2006. The Bantu Object Marker: Pronoun or Agreement? Presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 37), University of Oregon, April 6-9.

 

2005. Bantu Relatives and the Left Periphery. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 79), Oakland, CA.  January 8-11^th. 

 

2005. Multiple Agreement, Concord, and Case Checking in Bantu. Presentation at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 36), Savannah, GA. March 31^st-April 3^rd.

 

2005. The Syntax and Typology of Bantu Relatives. Presentation at the Department of Linguistics weekly linguistics seminar, UIUC.  September 22^nd.

 

2005. The Case for Concord: Multiple Agreement in Bantu. Presentation at the annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 36), Amherst, MA. October 28-30^th.

 

2005. The Syntax of Agreement in Bantu Relatives. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society (TLS 9), Austin, TX. November 4-6^th.

 

2004. Matching and Raising Unified. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society, Flint, MI.  October 16^th.

 

2004. Relative clauses and categorial features in Swahili.  Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 78), Boston, MA.  January 8-11^th. 

 

2003. Functional and lexical interactions: relative clauses and negation in Swahili.  Presentation at the North American Syntax Conference (NASC I), Concordia Univ., Montreal May 2^nd-4^th.

 

2003. Sentential and Constituent Negation in Lingala: a Unified Analysis.  Presentation at the 34^th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 34), Rutgers University, June 17^th-22^nd.

 

2003. Case as Tense and Universal Head-Initial Structure.  Presentation at the annual meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society, Ann Arbor.  October 11^th.

 

2003. PF Evidence for Phases and Distributed Morphology.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 34), Stonybrook, NY.  November 7-9^th.

 

2003. Extended Projection Licensing and Repair.  Presentation at the Department of Linguistics weekly linguistics seminar, UIUC.  November 13^th.

 

2002. Syntactic Topicalization in Lingala.  Presentation at the 33^rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 33), Ohio University, March 22^nd -24^th.