Conference papers and invited talks

Conference papers

  • ‘Because-X and because-ellipsis: A comparison'. With Eleanor Cook. #Linguistweets, The First International Twitter Conference on Linguistics, 05/12/20, Abralin.
  • 'I didn't write this talk because syntax'. With Olivia Seyerle. European Dialect Syntax Workshop IX, 23/03/19, University of Glasgow.
  • 'Null prepositions in Germanic and Romance', INFOSTARS, Universidad de Sevilla, 25/10/17 (poster).
  • 'You’ve got a cheeky attitude: Regional and age related judgments on a new semantic form'. With Mercedes Durham. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Universidad de Murcia, 15/06/16.
  • 'Questions about questions'. The New Historical Linguistics and the World of Annotated Corpora, 9-13/03/15, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.
  • 'Because X: Syntactic restructuring, ellipsis, or 'internetese'?'. LAGB 2014, 04/09/2014, University of Oxford.
  • ‘A case of grammaticalisation: disjunction to question particle’. LAGB 2013, 31/08/13, SOAS, University of London.
  • ‘Question particles in English (and others)’. ELL research day, 14/06/13, University of Kent.
  • ‘Ellipsis and polar question particles’, Workshop on Ellipsis, 29/05/13, University of Edinburgh.
  • 'Embedded yes/no questions: Reanalysis and replacement', co-authored with Joel Wallenberg & Wim van der Wurff, LAGB, 07/09/12, Salford University.
  • 'Embedded yes/no questions: Reanalysis and replacement', co-authored with Joel Wallenberg & Wim van der Wurff, SHES 10, 22/04/12, Northumbria University.
  • 'To be or not to be, that is the question (particle)', Engage! training session, 27/03/12, Sunderland University.
  • '(Some) sentence-final question particles and 'or not'', Pecha Kucha night at LAGB, 09/09/11, Manchester University.
  • ‘Null subjects in spoken North-East English’, 6th Newcastle postgraduate conference in linguistics, 07/04/11, Newcastle University.
  • Latin word order and the EPP’, CamLing, 7-8/12/10, Cambridge University.
  • 'A syntactic universal and how to explain it', co-authored with Anders Holmberg & Michelle Sheehan, Newcastle/Northumbria Away Day, 16/09/10, Newcastle University.
  • Intonation questions’, co-authored with Anders Holmberg, Malgorzata Krzek, Michelle Sheehan & Mais Sulaiman, LAGB, 04/09/10, Leeds University.
  • ‘Sentential word order and the syntax of question particles’, International conference on final particles, 28/05/10, University of Rouen.
  • ‘The syntax of question particles: a cross-linguistic investigation’, LEL PG conference, 19/05/10, Edinburgh University.
  • Poster presentation: ‘What was the question? The syntax of question particles: a cross-linguistic study’, HaSS 2nd year PhD poster conference, 13/05/10, Newcastle University.
  • ‘Sentential word order and the syntax of question particles’, 5th Newcastle postgraduate conference in linguistics, 23/03/10, Newcastle University.
  • ‘The particle problem’, co-authored with Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg & Michelle Sheehan, Workshop on FOFC, typology, processing and acquisition, 29/01/10, Cambridge University.
  • ‘Sentence-final question particles as apparent FOFC-violators’, LAGB, 09/09/09, Edinburgh University.
  • ‘Yes/no question particles’, HaSS 1st year PhD conference, 21/05/09, Newcastle University.

Invited talks