Animacy and resumption at
the border of cognition and grammar
(NSF Award #2019804)

Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Recent Presentations

Mandy Cartner, Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani & Matthew Wagers. 2023. Predictive parsing as a source for resumptive pronoun preference in Hebrew. Poster at 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2023). [poster]
Mandy Cartner, Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani & Matthew Wagers. 2022. Tracing optionality to alignment in Hebrew RPs. Poster at 2022 Human Sentence Processing (HSP). [poster]
Stephanie Rich, Lalitha Balachandran, John Duff, Matthew Kogan, Maya Wax Cavallaro, Nicholas Van Handel & Matthew Wagers. 2022. Animacy-based structural expectations rapidly update with context. Poster at 2022 Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of California, Santa Cruz. [poster]
Ivy Sichel. 2022. How resumptive pronouns ameliorate island violations. SMircle, Stanford University.
Ivy Sichel. 2022. How resumptive pronouns ameliorate island violations. Morphology & Syntax Workshop, University of Chicago.
Maziar Toosarvandani. 2022. Clitic left dislocation in Sierra Zapotec varieties. Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST).
Ivy Sichel. 2021. Towards an understanding of the derivational timing of resumption. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 39.
Ivy Sichel & Maziar Toosarvandani. 2021. The featural life of nominals. Poster at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 39.
Maziar Toosarvandani. 2021. Locating animacy in the grammar. North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 52.

Ivy Sichel. To appear. Towards an understanding of the derivational timing of resumption. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 39. [download]
Ivy Sichel & Maziar Toosarvandani. To appear. Nominal intervention and the extended PERSON domain. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 39. [download]
Ivy Sichel. 2022. How resumptive pronouns ameliorate island violations. In For Hagit: A celebration, ed. by Linnaea Stockall, Luisa Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy & Sarah Ouwayda. [download]
Kelsey Sasaki, Steven R. Foley, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Fe Silva-Robles, Maziar Toosarvandani & Matthew Wagers. 2021. Evidence for a universal parsing principle in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. Ms., University of California, Santa Cruz and Senderos. [download]