Judith Tonhauser's Talks

invited presentations

• 2007c	Crosslinguistic variation in the temporal semantics of noun phrases, Rutgers University, November 2.
  2007b	"What is tense? Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní'", 10th OSU Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, The Ohio State University, April 28.
  2007a	"Temporal anaphora of noun phrases and verb phrases", University at Buffalo, SUNY, March 23.
  2006f	''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', University of California at Santa Cruz, February 21.
  2006e	''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', Northwestern University, February 15.
  2006d	''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', University of California at San Diego, February 8.
  2006c	''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', The Ohio State University, January 31.
  2006b	''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', Brandeis University, January 30.
  2006a	''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', University of Texas at Austin, January 27.
  2005	''Temporality in the nominal domain: What `future' means for individuals'', Syntax/Semantics Circle, University of California at Berkeley, October 31.
  2004	''Argument linking without grammatical functions'', Fieldwork seminar on Yucatec Maya, University of California at Berkeley, May 4.
  2003c	''The agent focus voice in Mayan language s'', Syntax/Semantics Circle, University of California at Berkeley, November 7.
  2003b	''A preliminary investigation of conditionals and counterfactuals in Yucatec Maya'', Workshop on Conditionals and Counterfactuals, University of California at Berkeley, October 11.
  2003a	''Focus constructions in Yucatec Maya'', Semantics of Underrepresented Languages in the Americas (SULA) II , University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 14-16.

refereed presentations

• 2008d	"Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses", with Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, and Anastasia Smirnova, to be presented at the 8th meeting of Chronos, Austin, Texas, October 3-5.
  2008c	"Tenseless constructions in a tensed language: Temporal interpretation of the Korean -ko construction", with Jungmee Lee, to be presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguistics, Seoul, Korea, July 20-25.
  2008b	"The Paraguayan Guaraní future marker -ta", Presented at the workshop on "Tense across languages", Bamberg, Germany, February 27-29. [handout] (.pdf)
  2008a	"Yucatec Mayan predicate-argument structures", Presented at the 2008 SSILA meeting, Chicago, January 3-6.
  2007c	"Word order in Paraguayan Guaraní", with Erika Colijn, Ohio Latinamericanist Conference, April 14.
  2007b	"Tense or Grammatical aspect? Guaraní nominal temporal markers", LSA 81st Annual Meeting, Anaheim, January 4-7.
  2007a	Temporal interpretation in Guaraní: The effect of telicity and durativity, SSILA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, January 4-7.
  2006b	''Nominal temporal markers on relative and complement clauses in Paraguayan Guaraní'', LSA 80th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 5-9.
  2006a	''Paraguayan Guaraní as a tenseless language'', SSILA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 5-9.
  2005d	''Benefactive and purposive constructions in Guaraní: Semantic extension of a future-oriented temporal morpheme'', Texas Linguistics Society 9, University of Texas at Austin, November 4-6.
  2005c	''The Temporal Interpretation of Noun Phrases in Paraguayan Guaraní'', Semantics of Under-represented Languages (SULA) III, University at Buffalo, April 15-17.
  2005b	''Grammar meets discourse: The case of Yucatec Maya'', LSA 79th Annual Meeting (30 minute talk), Oakland, January 6-9. [handout] (.pdf)
  2005a	''Nominal tense in Guaraní'', SSILA Annual Meeting, Oakland, January 6-9.
  2004	''Towards an understanding of the meaning of nominal tense'', 9th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Nijmegen, November 1-3.
  2003c	''On the syntax and semantics of content questions in Yucatec Maya'', 6th Workshop on American Indian Languages (WAIL), UC Santa Barbara, April 30-May 2.
  2003b	''Agent focus and voice in Yucatec Maya'', 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 10-12.
  2002b	''On the temporal interpretation of noun phrases'', Conference on (Preferably) Non-Lexical Semantics, Université de Paris VII, June 13-15.
  2002a	''A dynamic semantic account of the temporal interpretation of Noun Phrases'', Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XII, UC San Diego, March 8-10
  2000	''An approach to polarity sensitivity and negative concord by lexical underspecification'', 7th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of California at Berkeley, July 22-23.
  1999	''Treating polarity sensitivity by lexical underspecification: Motivation from semantic scope'', 34th Linguistics Colloquium, Germersheim, September 7-10.
  1996	with Carl Vogel, ''Psychological constraints on plausible default inheritance reasoning'', The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Cambridge, MA, November 5-8.