Presentations

Colloquia and invited presentations

2027

• TBD. Plenary speaker at 63rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, March 2027.

2026

• Wh-predicates, question formation, and epistemic modality: A Chuj perspective. Plenary speaker at Semantics in Under-Represented Languages of the Americas + TripleA, University of British Columbia, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 2026.
• Les langues mayas aujourd'hui: enjeux sociolinguistiques, politiques linguistiques et variation dialectale. Invited talk at Université de Montréal, March 2026.
• Quantification, wh-questions, and predication in Chuj. Colloquium talk at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, February 2026.
• Wh-questions and predication in Chuj. Colloquium talk at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, January 2026.

2025

• Documenting dialectal variation in Chuj (Mayan): A “one tale two dialects” approach. Colloquium talk at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 2025.
• Chuj (wh)-quantifiers as syntactic predicates. Colloquium talk at the University of Washington, Department of Linguistics, Seattle, Washingon, May 2025.
• Predicación no verbal, cuantificadores y palabras interrogativas: Una perspectiva Chuj. Invited talk at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, May 2025. [exemplier]
• Documenting dialectal variation in Chuj: A “one tale, two dialects” approach. Colloquium speaker at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, March 2025.
• Approaching dialectal variation in Chuj, a Mayan language. Plenary speaker at the 9th Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, March 2025.
• Approaching dialectal variation in the context of Chuj, a Mayan language. Colloquium talk at UCLA, Spanish & Portuguese. Los Angeles, California, March 2025.

2024

• Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree (with Amy Rose Deal). Invited talk at Understanding obviation workshop, McGill University, October 2024. [exemplier]
• Introduction to Mayan Obviation (with Pedro Mateo Pedro). Invited talk at Understanding obviation workshop, McGill University, October 2024. [exemplier]
• Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree (with Amy Rose Deal). Invited talk at Syntax-morphology circle, Stanford University, April 2024. [exemplier]

2023

• Constructing (in)definites: Lessons from Chuj. Invited talk at Construction of Meaning, Stanford University, December 2023.
• Mayan animacy hierarchy and the dynamics of Agree (with Amy Rose Deal). S-Babble, UCSD, November 2023.
• Building (in)definites: A Chuj perspective. Colloquium, UC Berkeley, November 2023. [slides]
• Restricciones de animacidad y correferencia en las lenguas mayas: variación y análisis (with Amy Rose Deal). Invited talk at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, March 2023. [exemplier]
• L'inversion sujet-objet et la coréférence nominale dans les langues mayas. Université du Québec à Montréal, February 2023.
• Binding and anti-cataphora in Mayan. Rutgers University, February 2023.
• Syntaxe et documentation linguistique : regards sur les langues mayas. Université de Montréal, January 2023.

2022

• Mayan animacy restrictions and dynamic interaction (with Amy Rose Deal). Syntax-Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley, October 2022. [exemplier]
• Binding and anti-cataphora in Mayan. 10th Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop. Université du Québec à Montréal, April 2022. [exemplier]

2021

• Demostrativos nominales en Chuj de San Mateo Ixtatán (with Cristina Buenrostro). Seminario de Semántica Descriptiva: Análisis y métodos de campo. Colegio de México/UNAM, September 2021. [exemplier]
• Ergative Anaphors and High Absolutive Syntax (with Dan Brodkin). Workshop on the Languages of Mesoamerica. University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2021.

2020

• Binding and coreference in Mayan: Evidence for object raising. UC Berkeley Syntax-Semantics Circle. University of California, Berkeley, November 2020. [exemplier]
• Modal effects in the nominal domain: Lessons from Chuj. Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas 11. Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, août 2020. [exemplier]

2019

• Pronominal classifiers and definiteness in Chuj. Calgary Workshop on Pronouns 2019. University of Calgary, November 2019. [exemplier]

2017

• Artículos en kaqchikel y en chuj, lo que nos pueden decir las lenguas mayas. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, June 2017.

Refereed conference presentation

2026

• Cláusulas copulativas en Chuj de San Mateo Ixtatán (with Cristina Buenrostro and Rodrigo Ranero). Paper presented at XIX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Universidad de Hermosillo. Mexico, November 2026.
• On the composition of epistemic wh-indefinites: Chuj -xomlaj (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle). Paper presented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico, May 2026.

2025

• Split ergativity is not always epiphenomenal (with Rodrigo Ranero). Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. NYU, New York City, October 2026.
• Palabras interrogativas como predicados en Chuj (with Cristina Buenrostro and Rodrigo Ranero). Paper presented at the XVIII Congreso Nacional de Lingüística. Guanajuato, Mexico, September 2025.

2024

• Quantifier interpretation in Chuj: Implications for the weak/strong contrast. (with Cristina Buenrostro). Paper presented at Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas 13. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, October 2024. [exemplier]
• Severing the internal argument from its verb: The case of Mam. (with Noah Elkins and Tessa Scott). Paper presented at the 11th TripleA Workshop. Université de Nantes, June 2024.
• Directionals and argument structure in Mam. (with Noah Elkins and Tessa Scott). Paper presented at the 27th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 27). University of Toronto, April 2024. [exemplier]
• Super-extended ergativity in Mam. (with Noah Elkins and Tessa Scott). Paper presented at the 42nd edition of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42). UC Berkeley, April 2024. [handout]
• Sobre la obviación en ch’ol. (with Morelia Vázquez Martínez and Carol Rose Little). Poster to be presented at Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 7. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, February 2024 [affiche].
• Deep and surface anaphora: Insights from Mayan. (with Rodrigo Ranero). Poster to be presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 54). MIT, January 2024.

2023

• Lo que ves no es lo que hay: una perspectiva maya sobre la anáfora de complemento nulo (with Rodrigo Ranero). Décimo Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica (CILLA X). University of Texas, Austin, November 2023. [exemplier]
• Mayan animacy hierarchy effects: A dynamic interaction approach (with Amy Rose Deal). Paper presented at The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41). UC Santa Cruz, May 2023. [exemplier]
• Mayan animacy restrictions and dynamic interaction (with Amy Rose Deal). Paper presented at The 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 26). McGill University, April 2023. [exemplier]

2021

• Object raising bleeds binding: A new correlate of high-absolutive syntax in Mayan (with Jessica Coon). Paper presented at Toronto-Ottawa- Montreal workshop on the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. University of Ottawa, December 2021. [exemplier]
• Extracción del objeto y el parámetro absolutivo bajo/alto (with Jessica Coon). Paper presented at Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi 6). San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, November 2021. [exemplier]
• Two constraints on ergative anaphors (with Dan Brodkin). 28th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 28). McGill University & National University of Singapore, May 2021. [exemplier]
• Modality in the nominal domain: The Chuj “yalnhej + wh” series (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle). Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 31. Brown University, May 2021. [exemplier]
• Ergative anaphors and high absolutive syntax (with Dan Brodkin). 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). University of Arizona, April 2021.
• Aligner prosodie et syntaxe pour mieux comprendre la syntaxe: Phénomène prosodique en maya. 50 ans de linguistique à l’UQAM: Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique. Université du Québec à Montréal, April 2021. [exemplier]
• Two types of numeral classifiers: Evidence from Shan, Ch’ol and Chuj (with Mary Moroney and Carol Rose Little). Semantics Babble, University of California, San Diego, April 2021. [exemplier]
• Expletive negation and negative polarity: The view from Québec French (with Aurore Gonzalez). 43rd Annual Meeting of the Germany Linguistic Society (DGfS 43). Freiburg, February 2021. [exemplier]

2020

• “Expletive negation” as a decomposed NPI in Québec French (with Aurore Gonzalez). Going Romance 34. Paris, November 2020. [exemplier]
• Binding and the “low/high abs” parameter in Mayan. 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51). Université du Québec à Montréal, November 2020. [exemplier]
• Two types of numeral classifiers: Evidence from Ch’ol, Shan, and Chuj (with Carol Rose Little and Mary Moroney). Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas 11. Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, août 2020
• Avoiding syntax-prosody mismatches in Chuj and K’iche’: An alternative to Henderson 2012. 94th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. New Orleans, janvier 2020 [exemplier]
• Classifying classifiers: Two kinds of numeral classifiers across languages (with Carol Rose Little and Mary Moroney). 94th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. New Orleans, janvier 2020 [exemplier]

2019

• An apparent syntax-prosody mismatch as right extraposition: Evidence from Mayan. 50th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 50). MIT, October 2019. [exemplier]
• Los sufijos de categoría en chuj y la interfaz entre sintaxis y prosodia. 9th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America. University of Texas, Austin, October 2019. [exemplier]
• Random choice modality: The view from Chuj (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle). Sinn und Bedeutung 24. University of Osnabrück, September 2019. [exemplier]
• Noun classifiers and the composition of DP in Chuj. 12th annual Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop. Concordia University, March 2019. [exemplier]

2018

• Domain restriction and noun classifiers in Chuj (Mayan). 49th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 49). Cornell University, October 2018. [affiche]
• La modalidad de desición arbitraria en chuj: komon (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle). Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 5 (FAMLi). Antigua, Guatemala, août 2018.
• Las configuraciones referenciales en Chuj. Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 5 (FAMLi), Antigua, Guatemala, août 2018.
• La (in)definitud en Chuj y su relación con los clasificadores nominalesPrimer encuentro de estudios sobre el Chuj. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, May 2018.
• La composición de la estatividad en Chuj (with Robert Henderson, Paulina Elias and Jessica Coon). Primer encuentro de estudios sobre el chuj. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, May 2018.
• Specificity, indefiniteness, and noun classifiers in Chuj (Mayan). 40th annual conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). Stuttgart, March 2018.

2017

• Noun classifiers, (in)definiteness, and pronouns in Chuj (Mayan). 1st Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Indigenous Languages of Latin America Workshop (TOMILLA). University of Toronto, November 2017.
• Sistemas de clasificación nominal en chuj: hacia un análisis unificado. 8th conference of Indigenous Languages of Latin America. University of Texas, Austin, October 2017.
• Scalarity across clause-types: Québec French -tu (with Daniela Isac). 27th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Alcalá, May 2017.
• Expletive negation and scalar implicatures in Québec French. 47th Symposium on Romance Languages. University of Delaware, April 2017.
• Clause-typing in Québec French -tu (with Daniela Isac). 47th Symposium on Romance Languages. University of Delaware, April 2017.
• Noun and numeral classifiers in Chuj (Mayan). 43rd annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. UC Berkeley, February 2017.