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Conference presentations

2009 Constraints on anaphor movement. Poster at LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 9. [abstract].
The structure of definite complex nominals (in Danish). (With Jorge Hankamer). LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 11. [abstract]
2008 Specification under discussion. Linguistics Alumni Conference, UCSC, September 12-13. [handout]
Specification under discussion. 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 8-10. (Advertised under the title "Coherence and congruence in overinformative answers to polar questions".) [handout]
2006 Danish verb phrase anaphora: Deep or surface? (With Michael Houser, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani). Poster session at WECOL 06, California State University, Fresno, October 27-29 [abstract | poster].
Gøre support in Danish. (With Michael Houser, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani). 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, UCSC, March 31 - April 2 [abstract | handout].
Object shift in copular clauses. LSA Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, January 6. [abstract | handout]
Definiteness marking and the structure of Danish partitive constructions. (With Jorge Hankamer). LSA Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, January 8. [abstract | handout]
2004 Reexamining Higgins' Taxonomy: A split in the Identificational class. LSA Annual Meeting. Boston, January 10. [Abstract in ps format | handout in ps or pdf format]
A puzzle about PPs in Danish definite DPs. (With Jorge Hankamer.) LSA Annual Meeting. Boston, January 9. [Abstract in ps format | handout in ps or pdf format]
2003 Danish names and the Duke of York. (With Jorge Hankamer.) Ninth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC9), University of Buffalo, April 25-27. [abstract | handout]
2002 Specificational clauses and semantic types. Existence: Semantics and Syntax. University of Nancy 2, France, September 26-28. [abstract]
Two types of definite description subjects. 7th ESSLLI student session, 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. Trento, Italy, August 6. [handout]
2001 Ambiguous copula sentences in Danish: evidence against the inversion hypothesis. 32nd Conference of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 32). CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, October 20. [handout]
A morphological account of definite nouns in Danish. (With Jorge Hankamer.) Seventh Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC7). University of Calgary, Banff, April 22. [abstract | handout]
2000 Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses. 15th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. University of Groningen, Holland, May 27. [abstract | handout]
Reanalyzing the definiteness effect: evidence from Danish. Workshop on OT Approaches to the Nordic Languages, 18th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics. University of Lund, Sweden, May 18.
1999 Danish syntactic noun incorporation: a case study in grammatical interfaces. (With Ash Asudeh.) 6th International Conference on HPSG, University of Edinburgh, August 4.

Colloquia and invited talks

2008 Conditions on fronting. Colloquium, UCSC, April 18 [handout]
2007 Same but different: VP anaphors in Danish and English. Sixth Annual SLUgS Symposium, UC Berkeley, November 18 [handout]
Two VP anaphors in Danish. Stanford Syntax Workshop, January 23. [handout]
2006 A puzzle about belief reports (or why Tanya wouldn't say what she believes). Fifth Annual SLUgS Symposium, UC Berkeley, December 3. [handout]
Specificational copular clauses. Colloquium, Kobe Area Circle of Linguistics, Kobe Shoin Women's University, November 22. [handout]
Verb phrase anaphora in a verb second language. Syntax Group, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 12. [handout]
Verb phrase anaphora in a verb second language. Linguistics at Santa Cruz, March 4. [abstract  | handout]
2005 Specificational clauses and clefts. 27. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft. Cologne, February 23-25 [abstract | handout]
2004 What's special about specificational clauses--Part II. Syntax Circle, UC Berkeley, November 19. [handout]
What's special about specificational clauses. Third Annual SLUgS Symposium, UC Berkeley, November 14. [handout]
Existentials: from Angst to Harmony. (With David Beaver, Itamar Francez, Ivan Garcia, and Dmitry Levinson.) Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Stanford University, October 21. [abstract]
Specificational clauses at the interfaces. Stanford Syntax Workshop, Stanford University, January 27. [abstract | handout]
2003 Kopulasætninger og deres subjekter -- bidrag til en formal karakteristik. (Copular clauses and their subjects -- contributions to a formal characterization) Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, November 7. [handout]
Kopulasætninger og deres subjekter -- bidrag til en formal karakteristik. (Copular clauses and their subjects -- contributions to a formal characterization) Seminar on formal and computational linguistics, co-organized by the Linguistic Circle at the University of Copenhagen and the CMOL group at the Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen Business School, November 3. [handout]
2002 Hvem er hvem og hvad er hvad? -- om copula-konstruktioner i dansk. (Who is who and what is what -- on copular constructions in Danish.) Department of Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School, September 23
Specificational copular clauses. Grammatikseminar (colloquium), Department of Nordic Languages, University of Lund, Sweden, September 19
Towards an understanding of specificational structures. Stanford Syntax Workshop, Stanford University, April 23.
2000 Constraints on definite and indefinite subjects in Danish. Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, Universität Stuttgart, December 14.
Reanalyzing the definiteness effect: evidence from Danish. Stanford-UCSC Workshop on Optimal Typology, Stanford University December 8.
1999 Schwa assimilation in three Danish dialects. Workshop on Scandinavian Phonology, U.C. Santa Cruz, May 22.
Noun incorporation in Danish. University of Montana at Missoula, March 25.
Definiteness marking in Danish. University of Montana at Missoula, March 24.