Conference papers and invited talks

Conference papers

• A knack for syntax? Instructor attitudes to syntax teaching. With Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, and Kirby Conrod. LAGB 2024, 30 August 2024, Newcastle University. 

• Rigor and accessibility: Attitudes towards syntax pedagogy in higher education. With Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, and Kirby Conrod. LSA 2024, 4/1/24, New York.

• You get it or you don't: Attitudes and experiences in teaching and learning syntax. With Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, and Kirby Conrod. Canadian Linguistics Association/Association Linguistique de Canada, 19 June 2024, University of Toronto. NB This talk was not delivered due to presenter illness. 

• Gatekeeping, Hazing, or Rigor? The impact of teaching practices in theoretical syntax. With Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, and Kirby Conrod. Conference on Scholarly Teaching in Linguistics, 8–9 July 2023, Amherst, Massachusetts. 

• 'Tyneside English bipartite negation: Double negative or negative concord?'. With Claire Childs. LAGB 2022, 12–15 September 2022, Ulster University.
• 'Isn't it not negative concord? Bipartite negation in Tyneside English'. With Claire Childs. Societas Linguistica Europaea 55, 24–27 August 2022, University of Bucharest.
• ‘A student’s guide to decolonising linguistics: Enabling teaching staff to empower students‘. With Emerald Ace-Acquah & Mary Tumi Ogundamisi. LAGB 2021, 07/09/21, held online.
• ‘Explaining microvariation in P-dropping varieties‘. Poster. CamCoS9New, 20/01/21, Newcastle University.

• ‘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

• When non-standard grammar doesn't fit the theory: Bare singular objects in English. General Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 21/10/24. 
• Spotting the grammar in the hedgerows. English Grammar Day, UCL, 8/7/22. 
• 'Ellipsis––or not––in non-standard Englishes'. University of Sheffield. 15/12/21.
• Liberating student voices: Diversity Mark, working in collaboration with students to diversify reading lists. With Barbara Adewumi and Wayne Lavinière. Anglia Ruskin University. 23/04/21.
• Teaching grammar responsibly. Universität Konstanz (Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility), 25/11/19.
• This is a question, or?: Polar question particles. Universität Konstanz (Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility), 26/11/19.
• Because fun; *because like it. An exploration of because X in English and beyond. Universität Konstanz (Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility), 27/11/19.
• Ich gehe Konstanz: Preposition dropping in English and beyond. Universität Konstanz (Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility), 28/11/19.
• 'Let's go Sussex'. ROLLS seminar series, University of Sussex. 14/02/18.
• 'Because meme: Data-mining the Twittersphere'. Hills Road VI Form English Conference, Cambridge, 01/07/15 (repeated 2016, 2017).
• 'Grammatical, because fragment'. CRiLLS speaker series, Newcastle University, 13/04/16.
• ''Bad' grammar'. Explore public speaker programme (Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre, Newcastle, 13/04.16.
• 'Doing linguistics in the Twittersphere'. ELL Undergraduate Conference, University of Kent, 04/06/15.
• 'The decadence of our language is probably curable: Regeneration and progress in language change'. Explore public lecture, Joseph Cowan Lifelong Learning Centre, Newcastle, 02/07/14.
• 'SVO and SOV word order in Latin'. Northumbria University speaker series. 17/03/14.
• ‘Words around the world’. Explore public lecture (coordinated by the Centre for
• Lifelong Learning, Sunderland University), St Nicholas’ Cathedral, Newcastle, 25/04/13.
• ‘Questions, or not?’ LingLunch, University of Kent, 30/10/12.
• ‘What was the question (particle)?’, Explore public lecture, Newcastle Arts Centre, 07/06/12.
• ‘Asking questions about questions’, Newcastle University postgraduate speaker series, 28/05/12.
• ‘Intonation questions’, with Anders Holmberg, Malgorzata Krzek, Michelle Sheehan & Mais Sulaiman, CRiLLS speaker series, 17/02/10, Newcastle University.