Judith Tonhauser's Talks

Invited presentations

• 2012b	Title tbd, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 30.
  2012a	"Exploring presuppositions and other projective contents with linguistically untrained consultants", Special session on semantic fieldwork (organized by Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson) at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, Oregon, January 5-8.
  2011	"Time management", in workshop on "Navigating Grad School and Beyond: Skills for Academic Success", Linguistic Society of America 2011 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, January 8.
  2010d	"Marking contrast: The Paraguayan Guaraní discourse particle =katu, Hispanic Linguistics colloquium, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, OSU, December 3.
  2010c	"Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language", Brown University, September 15.
  2010b	"Temporal anaphora of noun phrases", Contextualism reading group, University of Chicago, April 2.
  2010a	"Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language", University of Chicago, April 1.
  2009c	"La sintaxis y la semántica de las construcciones de foco del maya yucateco" Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, November 27.
  2009b	"Exploring prosody and meaning in Paraguayan Guaraní", The OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, The Ohio State University (with Cynthia Clopper), April 24.
  2009a	"Realis reference by paradigmatic blocking", University of California at Berkeley, March 16.
  2008	"Crosslinguistic variation in the temporal semantics of noun phrases", Michigan State University, November 6.
  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

• 2011b	"Presuppositions and other projective meanings in Paraguayan Guaraní", Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 6, Manchester, UK, May 5-7.
  2011a	"Towards a taxonomy of projective content" (with David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons), Linguistic Society of America 2011 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, January 6-9.
  2010b	"What projects and why" (with David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 20, Vancouver, Canada, April 30 - May 1.
  2010a	"The prosodic coding of pragmatic focus in Paraguayan Guaraní" (with Cynthia Clopper), 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of Southern California, February 19-21.
  2009d	"La codificación de foco nuevo y foco contrastivo en el Guaraní de Paraguay" (with Cynthia Clopper), Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA) 4, Austin, Texas, October 25-27.
  2009c	"The prosody of information structure in Paraguayan Guaraní" (with Cynthia Clopper), poster presented at the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning , Barcelona, Spain, September 17-19.
  2009b	"Projective meaning: A unified account", (Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons, David Beaver and Judith Tonhauser), presented at the 2009 ESSLLI workshop "New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition, July 27-31.
  2009a	"On the temporal and modal interpretation of unmarked verbs in Paraguayan Guaraní", presented at Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 5, MIT/Harvard University, May 15-17.
  2008f	"Evidence for future tense in Paraguayan Guaraní", 13th meeting of Sinn und Bedeutung, Stuttgart, Germany, September 28 - October 2.
  2008e	"The cross-linguistic interpretation of embedded tenses", with Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, and Anastasia Smirnova, 13th Sinn und Bedeutung, Stuttgart, Germany, September 28 - October 2.
  2008d	"Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses", with Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, and Anastasia Smirnova, 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, 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.