Presentations
 

INVITED TALKS

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

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

2008. Differential Object Marking in Tigre and Tigrinya. Presented at National Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Chicago, March 22nd.
2008. Agreement, Case and Focus in Bantu OVS Clauses. Presented at Movement and Word Order in Bantu Conference, U Leiden, March 8th. handout

2007. Anti-Agreement and Person in Bantu. Presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Florida, March 22-24th.
2007. Perception and Linguistic Structure. Presented at Biolinguistic Investigations, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 22-25.

2006. The Bantu Object Marker: Pronoun or Agreement? Presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 37), University of Oregon, April 6-9.
2006. Case, Agreement and Concord in Bantu. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 80), Albuquerque, NM. January 5-8th.

2005. The Syntax of Agreement in Bantu Relatives. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society (TLS 9), Austin, TX. November 4-6th.
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 28-30th.
2005. The Syntax and Typology of Bantu Relatives. Presentation at the Department of Linguistics weekly linguistics seminar, UIUC. September 22nd.
2005. Multiple Agreement, Concord, and Case Checking in Bantu. Presentation at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 36), Savannah, GA. March 31st-April 3rd.
2005. Bantu Relatives and the Left Periphery. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 79), Oakland, CA. January 8-11th.

2004. Matching and Raising Unified. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society, Flint, MI. October 16th.
2004. Relative clauses and categorial features in Swahili. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 78), Boston, MA. January 8-11th.

2003. Extended Projection Licensing and Repair. Presentation at the Department of Linguistics weekly linguistics seminar, UIUC. November 13th.
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 7-9th.
2003. Case as Tense and Universal Head-Initial Structure. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society, Ann Arbor. October 11th.
2003. Sentential and Constituent Negation in Lingala: a Unified Analysis. Presentation at the 34th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 34), Rutgers University, June 17th-22nd.
2003. Functional and lexical interactions: relative clauses and negation in Swahili.Presentation at the North American Syntax Conference (NASC I), Concordia University, Montreal May 2nd-4th.

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