Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze will be giving two joint practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January. 1. Dialects "haven’t got" to be the same: modal microvariation in English We propose a unified analysis of dialectal differences between British (Br) and North American (NoAm) English regarding 'have-got' – its modal scope...

Two types of why in syntax: Evidence from Why-stripping in Persian This talk is an attempt to get audience feedback on my work in progress and prepare for my presentation at “Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50”, which will be held at the University of Chicago in April. In this work, I provide an account of...

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