Infants learn saltatory alternations: evidence from Catalan

Interaction of Split Ergativity and DOM in Haryanvi This talk investigates the interaction of split ergativity and differential object marking in Haryanvi, an under-studied Indo-Aryan language spoken in Northern India. Like Hindi, Haryanvi can be classified as a split-ergative language, where transitive subjects in the perfective aspect are case-marked differently than subjects in other aspects....

Predicting contrastive alternatives in the comprehension of focus How and when are focus alternatives identified during real-time language processing? I will raise the possibility that, at least in certain contexts,...

How do Spanish-learning infants discover morphological suffixes? (UBC Talk) Suffixes like English -s, -ed and -ing, and Spanish -a and -o are the basic building blocks of syntax. In this talk, I will...

Syntactic variables and semantic minimality Ethan Poole (joint work with Zahra Mirrazi) We argue that when two syntactic variables are "related" and stand in a c-command relationship at LF, a...