"On the Position of Causees in the Theta Hierarchy - or - How Disempowered can you be and Still be an Agent?" (Invited Talk) Cause(e/r) Workshop: The Interplay between Event Structure and Argument Realization, University of Cologne, Germany, Jan. 23-24, 2025.
"Mood and Aspect in Standard and Syrian Arabic," (Invited Talk) Workshop on Formal Arabic Linguistics, University of Nantes, France, Oct. 25-27, 2024.
“Semantic Complexity between Root and Template,” 57 th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 21-24, 2024.
“Quantity Adjectives in Syrian Arabic”, 15th meeting of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, University of Malta, Valletta Campus, May 21-24, 2024.
“Aspectual Composition in the Arabic Imperfective,” (Invited Talk) Workshop Exploring Verbal Paradigms: Confronting Arabic and Slavic Languages in Tense and Aspect Realization, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Graz, March 6, 2024.
“Reduced Clausal Comparatives in Arabic and Slavic," (Invited Talk) Center for Cognitive Science of Language, University of Nova Gorica, Feb. 29, 2024.
"Parameters of Distribution and Agreement in Superlative Constructions in Italian and Arabic," (Invited Talk) Institute of Linguistics and Baltic Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, Oct. 12, 2023
"'Few' is not 'not many'," Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, June 8-10, 2023
"A>V in the English Passive Participles," (Invited Talk) Workshop on Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, March 10-11, 2023.
"Covert Nouns and Definiteness in Superlatives" (with Margherita Pallottino), Going Romance, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2022.
"The Flavors of Appl in Syrian Arabic," Workshop on (Non)-Canonical Part-Whole Relations at the Interface between Morpho-Syntax, Semantics and Philosophy of Language, University of Lille, France, June 24, 2022.
"A and A-bar Movement in Standard Arabic: Evidence from Comparatives," keynote address, 35th Arabic Lingusitics Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 25-27, 2022.
"The Illusion of Predicate Superlatives," University of Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 19, 2021.
"Argument Hierarchies and Alternations in Causative and Double Object Constructions," Societas Linguistica Europaea Workshop The Syntax of Argumnet Structure Alternations across Frameworks, Sept. 1-2, 2021.
"On the Attributive Nature of Superlatives: Evidence from Arabic," Superlatives Reading Group, Paris, France, May 21, 2021
"'ʔadd' as an Equative Degree Quantifier in Levantine Arabic”, 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Arizon, Tucson, Feb. 28 - March 1, 2020.
"Comparison and Adjective Ordering in Syrian Arabic," (Invited Talk) Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 14, 2020.
"Participles and Auxiliary Constructions," (Mini-Course), University of Bucharest, Romania, Nov. 29-30, 2019.
"Scope Splitting in Arabic Superlatives," Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 24, University of Osnabrück, Germany. Sept. 4-7, 2019.
"Degree Quantification and Scope Splitting in Arabic," (Invited Talk) Workshop on Degree Semantics and Proportional Quantification, University of Paris 7. July 11, 2019.
"The Quantity Interrogatives 'ʔaddeesh' and 'Kam' in Syrian Arabic: Consequences for the Semantics of Degree Modification," (Invited Talk), Second International Conference on Afroasiatic Langauges and Linguistics, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes. November 14-16, 2018.
"Explaining Siewierska's Generalization," Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCoS7), St. John's College, Cambridge University. May 10-12, 2018.
"Existential and Universal Perfect in Syrian Arabic," Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 40, Leiden, the Netherlands. March 14-18, 2017.
"Double Object Constructions in Syrian Arabic" (Invited Talk), University of Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 28, 2017.
"Quantity Superlatives in Arabic" (Invited Talk), Workshop on Quantity Superlatives, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. September 13-14, 2016.
"Active Result State Adjectival Participles in Syrian Arabic," Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles (WAASAP) 3, Lille, France. June 13-14, 2016.
"The German Double Object Alternation and its Consequences for the Treatment of 'Inherent' Case," Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), Reykjavik, Iceland. May 20-22, 2016.
"'All' and 'Every' as Quantity Superlatives" (Poster), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, Austin, Texas. May 12-15, 2016.
"Dative Recipients in French, Maltese and Arabic" with Maris Camilleri (Poster), Workshop on Arabic and Romance Linguistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, April 3, 2016.
"Morphosyntactic Division of Labor in the Arabic Perfect" (Invited Talk), Syntax of the Arabic Varieties Workshop, Geneva, August 28-29, 2015.
"The Temporal Nature of the State/Event Distinction" (Invited Talk), Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Workshop on Events and States, Paris, April 18, 2015.
"Insights into Predicate Structure form the Arabic Active Participles" (Invited Talk), 29th Arabic Linguistic Symposium, Milwaukee, April 9-11, 2015.
"The Arabic Perfect," 41. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Workshop Grammatiktheorie, Vienna, Austria. Dec. 6-8, 2014.
"The Temporal Foundations of the Aspectual Classes" (Invited Talk), Journée d'Études Ontologie et Typologie des Etats, CNRS/Université Paris 8, Paris, France. October 6, 2014.
"Comparative and Superlative in Syrian Arabic," International Conference on Linguistics - Petra I, Petra, Jordan. November 19-21, 2013.
"Agreement as Differential Subject Marking," Societas Linguistica Europaea 42nd Annual Meeting, Split, Croatia. September 18-21, 2013.
"Superlatives in Syrian Arabic" (Guest Lecture), AMIDEAST, Rabat, Morocco. July 1, 2013.
"The Structure of Superlatives in Syrian Arabic," 6th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium, Ifrane, Morocco. June 26-28, 2013.
"Die Zeitwahrnehmung in der Differenzierung von Zuständen und Ereignissen" [The Perception of Time in the Differentiation of States and Events] (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, June 29, 2011.
"Verbal Complexes in Lebanese Arabic," First International Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Paris, France. November 25-27, 2010.
"On the Interaction of Specificity and Modification," Specificity from Theoretical and Empirical Points of View, Stuttgart, Germany. Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2010.
"On Two Modes of Externalization," Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces: Theoretical Modelling and Psycholinguistic Validation, Vienna, Austria. June 25-27, 2010.
"On the Duration of States," 9th International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality (Chronos), Paris, France. September 2-4, 2009.
"Definiteness in Inuktitut," California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) First Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. May 23-24, 2009.
"Generativity in the Medieval Arabic Linguistic Tradition" (Guest Lecture), Friends of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. January 18, 2007.
"Incorporation of Null Arguments in Inuktitut," Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. January 4-7, 2007.
"What Are Theta-Roles Assigned To, Exactly?" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. January 13, 2006.
"On Transitivity and Causativity in Arabic and English," Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. January 5-8, 2006.
"Keeping Things in Proportion: Interactions of Cumulativity and Proportionality" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. November 25, 2005.
"A Categorial Distinction Between Stative and Eventive Verbs," North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (NELS 36), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. October 28-30, 2005.
"Scope, Case and Linking in Double Object Constructions" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. March 15, 2005.
"Constituency and Agency in VP," West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 23), Davis, CA. April 23-25, 2004.
"A Pragmatic Analysis of Presuppositionality," Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. January 2-5, 2003.
"The Temporal Significance of 'Do So' and its Consequences for Subject Licensing" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium Series, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. November 13, 2003.
"A-Movement and Definiteness in Null Subject Languages" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. May 9, 2003.
"Arabic and the Universality of the Mapping Hypothesis" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 7, 2003.
"Stage- and Individual-Level Objects and Complex Predicates," Michigan Linguistics Society (MLS) Annual Meeting, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. October 19, 2002.
"Two Truth Conditions for the English Progressive," Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB7), Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany. October 3-5, 2002.
"Verb Movement and Asymmetric Coordination in West Germanic" (Invited Talk), Linguistics Colloquium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. March 21, 2002.
"The Logical Form of Existential-There Constructions," Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. January 4-7, 2001.
"Passive Morphology in Classical and Lebanese Arabic and English," Ninth International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria. February 25-27, 2000.
"The Structure of Agreement Failure in Lebanese Arabic," West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 19), Los Angeles, CA. February 5-7, 2000.
"Quantified Objects as Underlying Subjects," Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. January 6-9, 2000.
"Verb Final as a Subcase of Verb Second" (Poster), North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (NELS 30), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. October 22-24, 1999.
"On Certain Inversion Phenomena in the Germanic Languages" (Invited Talk), Verb-Second Workshop, Holland Institute of Linguistics (HIL), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. January 28, 1998.
"Principled Concordance," Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. March 6-8, 1998.
"A Unified Account of Parallel and Asymmetric Verb Second," Tagung der Generativen Germanistik des Süden (GGS), Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. May 8-10, 1997.
"The Position of German Main Verbs is Invariant," Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. April 25-27, 1997.