Conference talks/Posters

2025

• Kanien’kéha exclamatives and the partitive prefix: support for a degree approach to exclamativity. Talk to be presented at NELS 56, NYU. October 17-19.
• First, second, and third person imperatives in Kanien’kéha. With Wíshe Mitchell Mittelstaedt. Talk presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, McGill University. June 3-5, 2025. [pdf]
• Reversives, repetitives, and on-going telic events in Kanien’kéha. With Arihwí:saks Colin Benedict and Terrance Gatchalian. Talk presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, McGill University. June 3-5, 2025. [pdf]

2024

• The Repetitive Prefix and Argumentless Presupposition in Kanien’kéha. Talk presented at Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 13, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil. October 28–31, 2024. [pdf]
• A syntactic approach to repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’kéha. Poster presented at NELS 55, Yale University. October 17–18, 2024. [pdf]
• Argumentless presuppositions in Kanien’kéha. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 29, C.U.M.O, Noto, Italy. September 17–19, 2024. [pdf]
• Repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’kéha. Talk presented at the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM) 16, University of Toronto. May 11, 2024. [pdf]

2023

• Re-thinking Bantu anti-agreement effects: evidence from Kirundi. 54th Annual Conference on African Languages. University of Connecticut, June 14. [pdf]
• Exclamatives in Kirundi and Kinyarwanda. Bantu Syntax and Information Structure Workshop. Leiden University, June 8. [pdf]
• Lexical aspect and the stative present in Kanien’kéha. With Tehokwiráthe Cross, Terrance Gatchalian, Katya Morgunova, and Ro’nikonhkátse Norton. 26th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas. McGill University, April 28, 2023. [pdf]

2022

• Unpacking -ish: a bimorphemic account of Kirundi causatives. 1st Toronto-Montreal Bantu Colloquium. University of Toronto, May 27, 2022. [pdf]
• High, Low, and No Absolutive Mayan Syntax: Effects of No Object Raising in Mam. 10th Montreal-Ottowa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop. Université de Québec à Montréal, April 23, 2022. [pdf]

2021

• High, Low, and No Absolutive Mayan Syntax: Effects of No Object Raising in Mam. 3rd Toronto-Ottowa-Montreal Workshop on the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. University of Ottawa, December 3, 2021. [pdf]

Local workshops & Reading Groups

• Niwakenehrakò:’on! (or how to exclaim in Kanien’kéha). Iakwarihwí:saks @ Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center. May 2025. [pdf]
• Reversives, Repetitives, and Present Tense in Kanien’kéha. With Arihwí:saks Colin Benedict & Terrance Gatchalian. Roti’nikonhrowá:nens Group. January 2025. [pdf]
• Surprise in Kanien’kéha!. Roti’nikonhrowá:nens Group. November 2024. [pdf]
• Again and again. Iakwarihwí:saks @ Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center. May 2024. [pdf]
• The Repetitive Prefix and Presupposition in Kanien’kéha’. McGill Syntax Semantics Group. March 2024. [pdf]
• Comparing Kanien’kéha and English “again”. Roti’nikonhrowá:nens Group. March 2024. [pdf]
• Imperatives in Kanien’kéha’. With Wishe Mittelstadt. Roti’nikonhrowá:nens Group. January 2024.
• Lexical Aspect and the Stative Present in Kanien’kéha’. With Terrance Gatchalian and Katya Morgunova. McGill Syntax-Semantics Group, March 2023.
• Relative (pro)nominals in Kirundi. McGill Syntax-Semantics Group, February 2023. [pdf]
• Expressing Present in Kanien’kéha’. With Terrance Gatchalian and Katya Morgunova. Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab, February 2023.
• Exclamatives in Kirundi. Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab, January 2023. [pdf]
• Re-assessing relative clauses in Kirundi. Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab, November 2022. [pdf]
• Nasals, Glides, and Complex Onsets in Kirundi. Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab, February 2022. [pdf]
• No-ABS syntax in Heritage Mam. Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab, November 2021. [manuscript]