Talks & Handouts
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| 2025 | Bailey, Laura, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Kirby Conrod (presenting), and Caitl Light (presenting). 'Nothing beats figuring it out for yourself': Experiences in teaching and learning syntax. 2025 LSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. [ slides via osf ] | 2024 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Syncretism or agreement hierarchies? Keynote talk, Mo-MOT Morphology Workshop 2024 at Carleton University. Ottawa, ON. |
| 2024 | Bailey, Laura (presenting), Bronwyn Bjorkman, Kirby Conrod, and Caitl Light. A knack for syntax? Instructor attitudes to syntax teaching. 2024 LAGB Annual Meeting, Newcastle University. [ slides via osf ] |
| 2024 | Asudeh, Ash, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Neil Myles, Daniel Siddiqi, and Lisa Sullivan. Metasyncretism and secondary exponence in LrFG. 2024 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2024 de l'ACL, Carleton University. [ LrFG website ] |
| 2024 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The puzzle of (apparently) phonologically motivated empty morphs. Workshop on Morphology at Princeton (WOMP) / exo-words 2. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. [ handout ] | 2024 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The puzzle of (apparently) phonologically motivated empty morphs. Colloquium talk at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. [ handout ] |
| 2024 | Bailey, Laura, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Kirby Conrod (presenting), and Caitl Light. Rigor and accessibility: attitudes towards syntax pedagogy in higher education. 2024 LSA Annual Meeting, New York, NY. [ slides via osf ] |
| 2023 | Bailey, Laura, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Kirby Conrod, and Caitl Light. Gatekeeping, Hazing, or Rigor? The impact of teaching practices in theoretical syntax. Conference on Scholarly Teaching and SoTL in Linguistics (LSA Summer Institute), UMass Amherst. [ slides via osf ] |
| 2023 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn, Isabelle Boyer, Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, and Dan Siddiqi. Limits on pronominal gender: A semantic account of a morphological pattern. NELS 54, University of Göttingen. [ handout ] |
| 2022 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn, Isabelle Boyer, Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, Louise Koren, and Dan Siddiqi. Person and gender in pronoun paradigms: A semantic account of a morphological pattern. 2022 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2022 de l'ACL, Online. |
| 2022 | Anderson, Catherine, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Martin Kohlberger, Nathan Sanders and Ai Taniguchi. Teaching introductory linguistics with justice: Updating an open educational resource. 2022 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2022 de l'ACL, Online. [ slides ] | 2022 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Multiple ways to be multiply valued. Colloquium talk, Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks series, University of Leipzig. Leipzig, Germany. [ handout ] |
| 2022 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Verb doubling and the architecture of realization. Colloquium talk, Yale University. New Haven, CT. [ handout ] |
| 2022 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Verb doubling and the architecture of realization. Colloquium talk, MIT. Cambridge, MA. |
| 2021 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Representing and resolving feature conflicts. 2021 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2021 de l'ACL, Online. |
| 2021 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn, Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, Louise Koren, Jennice Hinds and Dan Siddiqi. Morphological upstaging and markedness. 2021 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2021 de l'ACL, Online. |
| 2021 | Anderson, Catherine and Bronwyn Bjorkman. Word to the Whys (poster). LingComm 2021: Communicating Linguistics to a Broader Audience, Online. |
| 2021 | Anderson, Catherine, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Felix Desmeules-Trudel, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Daniel Currie Hall, Timothy Mills, Nathan Sanders, and Ai Tanaguchi. Podcasting in a Pandemic for Teaching, Outreach, and Justice (multimedia poster). 2021 LSA Annual Meeting, Online. |
| 2021 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. When syncretism can (and can't) fix feature mismatches. Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST). Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. [ handout ] |
| 2021 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Multiple valuation, syncretism, and morphosyntactic "repairs". Colloquium talk, University of Victoria. Victoria, BC. [ handout ] |
| 2021 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. How syntax avoids conflict, and how morphology (sometimes) resolves it. Invited talk, NYU Syntax Brown Bag Series. New York, NY. |
| 2020 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Realizing Syntax. Invited talk, Queen Mary University London. London, UK. |
| 2020 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Realizing Syntax. Colloquium talk, University of Tromsø. Tromsø, Norway. |
| 2019 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Reduplication without segments: verb doubling as a prosodic repair (poster). NELS 50, MIT. [ poster ] |
| 2019 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Structural disanalogies between pronouns and tenses. Annual keynote talk, Linguistics Students Association, Concordia University. Montreal, QC. [ slides ] |
| 2019 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Repair or realization? Do-support, verb doubling, and linearization. Colloquium talk, University of Ottawa. Ottawa, ON. |
| 2019 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Some structural disanalogies between pronouns and tenses. Calgary Pronouns Workshop. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. [ handout ] |
| 2019 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Anastasia Riehl. We seen 'eh' and so on: a preliminary study of three variables in the Wolfe Island English Corpus. 2019 Meeting of the American Dialect Society, New York, NY. |
| 2018 | Cowper, Elizabeth (presenting), Bronwyn Bjorkman, and Dan Siddiqi. Unifying –ing without participles (poster). GLOW 41, Budapest, Hungary. [ poster ] |
| 2018 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Against cross-clausal dependencies in tense. Colloquium talk, Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks series, University of Leipzig. Leipzig, Germany. |
| 2018 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Realization vs. Repair: the logic of "last resort" in auxiliary systems. Keynote speaker, Workshop on Morphosyntactic Repairs, University of Leipzig. Leipzig, Germany. |
| 2018 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Tense: representation, realization, and interpretation. Invited lecture series (3 lectures, 3 hours each), Centre for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (CRISSP), KU Leuven. Brussels, Belgium. |
| 2018 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Pronominal tense and anaphora: evidence from sequence of tense. 2018 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2018 de l'ACL, Regina, SK. [ slides ] |
| 2017 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Singular they: history and changes. Keynote Talk, Dog Days Syntax/Semantics Workshop, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON. |
| 2017 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn, Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, and Andrew Peters. Person in two places at once: Heiltsuk pronouns. Manitoba Workshop on Person. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. |
| 2017 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Sali Tagliamonte. What can have do? (poster). NELS 48, Reykjavik University. [ poster ] |
| 2017 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Sali Tagliamonte. What can explain it? The changing modals of York English. Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation 4, University of York. |
| 2017 | Cowper, Elizabeth (speaker), Bronwyn Bjorkman, and Dan Siddiqi. From homophony to unity. Keynote talk, Mo-MOT Morphology Workshop 2. UQAM. [ handout ] |
| 2017 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Peter Jurgec. Indexation to stems and words: accounting for non-local morphophonological effects. MOT Phonology Workshop 2017, UQAM. |
| 2017 | Jurgec, Peter (speaker) and Bronwyn Bjorkman. Indexation to stems and words predicts long-distance morphophonological effects. 2017 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2017 de l'ACL, Toronto, ON. [] |
| 2016 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Towards an independent analysis of sequence of tense. Keynote talk, Workshop on the Meaning of Past Tense, University of Göttingen. Göttingen, Germany. |
| 2016 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The inherent puzzle of modal subjects. Mo-MOT Morphology Workshop 1, Carleton University. |
| 2016 | Jurgec, Peter (presenting) and Bronwyn Bjorkman. Regularizing effects of indexation to complex constituents (poster). 13th Old World Conference in Phonology, Budapest, Hungary. |
| 2016 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Peter Jurgec. Regularizing effects of indexation to complex constituents (poster). GLOW 39, University of Göttingen. [ poster ] |
| 2016 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Dependent Past: sorting out modality, adjuncts, and embedded clauses. Colloquium talk, Carleton University. Ottawa, ON. |
| 2015 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The case of aspect. Workshop on Aspect, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. [ handout ] |
| 2015 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn, Claire Halpert, and Hadil Karawani. From times to worlds: the relational unity of perfects and evidentials. The Perfect: variation workshop, NTNU. [ handout ] |
| 2015 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Elizabeth Cowper. Where there is, and why. 2015 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2015 de l'ACL, Ottawa, ON. [ handout ] |
| 2015 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Not all fake pasts are real. Colloquium talk, York University. Toronto, ON. [ slides ] |
| 2015 | Cowper, Elizabeth, Daniel Currie Hall, Bronwyn Bjorkman Rebecca Tollan, and Neil Banerjee. There's no future in Old English. 2015 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2015 de l'ACL, Ottawa, ON. |
| 2015 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Hedde Zelijstra. Upward Agree is superior (poster). WCCFL 33, Simon Fraser University. [ poster ] |
| 2015 | Cowper, Elizabeth (speaker), Daniel Currie Hall (speaker), Bronwyn Bjorkman, Rebecca Tollan, and Neil Banerjee. There then and now. Societas Linguistica Europaea 2015, Leiden, the Netherlands. |
| 2015 | Cowper, Elizabeth (speaker), Daniel Currie Hall (speaker), Bronwyn Bjorkman Rebecca Tollan, and Neil Banerjee. Illusions of transitive expletives in Middle English. 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, Italy. |
| 2015 | Cowper, Elizabeth (speaker), Daniel Currie Hall (speaker), Bronwyn Bjorkman Rebecca Tollan, and Neil Banerjee. Investigating the past of the futurate present. Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 17, Reykjavik, Iceland. |
| 2015 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Ewan Dunbar. Eliminating cyclicity: A reanalysis of Chamorro stress (poster). 2015 LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. [ poster ] |
| 2014 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Elizabeth Cowper. Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds. 2014 CLA Annual Conference/Congrès de 2014 de l'ACL, St. Catharines, ON. |
| 2014 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Elizabeth Cowper. Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds. GLOW 37 Workshop, CRISSP (KU Leuven/HUBrussel). [ handout ] |
| 2014 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Ergative as perfective oblique. University of Göttingen Syntax/Semantics Reading Group. Göttingen, Germany. [handout ] |
| 2014 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Multiple Agrees: Towards a non-unified theory of feature valuation. (poster). 2014 LSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. [ poster ] [ handout ] |
| 2013 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Elizabeth Cowper. Inflectional shells and the syntax of causative have (poster). 2013 CLA Conference/Congrès de 2013 de l'ACL, Victoria, BC. [poster ] [handout ] |
| 2013 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Elizabeth Cowper. Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds. Keynote talk, MOTH Syntax Workshop, McMaster University. Hamilton, ON. |
| 2013 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The absence of coreferential subjects in TP coordination. GLOW 36, Lund University. [ handout ] |
| 2013 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Aspectual ergative splits and perfective-linked oblique case (poster). 2013 LSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. [ poster ] [ handout ] |
| 2012 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Claire Halpert. In an imperfect world: deriving the typology of counterfactual marking. Ottawa Modality Workshop, University of Ottawa. |
| 2012 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Verbal Inflection, Markedness, and Auxiliaries. Colloquium talk, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON. |
| 2012 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Claire Halpert. In search of (im)perfection: the illusion of counterfactual aspect. GLOW 35, University of Potsdam. |
| 2012 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn Motivating verbal inflection via auxiliary verb constructions. 2012 LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. [ handout ] |
| 2011 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn and Claire Halpert. In search of (im)perfection: the illusion of counterfactual aspect. NELS 42, University of Toronto. |
| 2011 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The syntax of auxiliaries from a cross-linguistic perspective. 2011 CLA Conference/Congrès de 2011 de l'ACL, Fredericton, NB. [ handout ] |
| 2011 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The crosslinguistic defaultness of be (poster). WCCFL 29, University of Arizona. [ poster ] [ handout ] |
| 2011 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The syntax of inverted conditional antecedents. 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. [ handout ] |
| 2010 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Towards an asymmetric semantics for and. On Linguistic Interfaces II, University of Ulster. [ handout ] |
| 2010 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. A syntactic correlate of semantic asymmetries in clausal coordination. NELS 41, University of Pennsylvania. [ handout ] |
| 2010 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The morphological basis of default-to-opposite stress in Nez Perce. WSCLA 15, University of Ottawa. [ handout ] |
| 2010 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Morphologically conditioned default-to-opposite stress in Nez Perce. 7th Old World Conference in Phonology, Nice, France. |
| 2009 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. The syntax of syncretism. NELS 40, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 2010 Georgetown Linguistics Society conference, Georgetown University. [ handout ] |
| 2009 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Correspondence between reduplicants: Evidence from Kinande. 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester. [ handout ] |
| 2009 | Bjorkman, Bronwyn. Go get, come see. 2009 Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of British Columbia. [ handout ] |