Conference talks
2025
Webster, N. The syntactic and semantic introduction of internal arguments. Talk at the 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (J/K 32). Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. June 13-15. [handout].
2025
Webster, N., Cartner, M., Kogan, M., Wagers, M., & Sichel, I. Information structure alone cannot account for subject islandhood: an experimental study. Long talk at the 47th Annual Meeting of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW47). Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. March 25-27. [slides].
2025
Webster, N. Internal argument introduction in Korean complex predicates. Talk at the 14th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL14). University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. March 18-20. [handout].
2024
Webster, N. Acategorial licensing of internal arguments in Korean. Talk at the 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics and the 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (WALF18 and SICOGG26 joint conference). Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea. August 22-24. [handout].
2024
Cao, Y. & Webster, N. Head movement as PF-Raising/Lowering: evidence from Swahili RCs. Talk at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL55). McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. May 2-4. [handout].
Conference posters
upcoming
Webster, N., Cartner, M., Kogan, M., Wagers, M., & Sichel, I. Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function. Poster at the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56). New York Univeristy, New York, NY, USA. October 17–19.
2025
Webster, N. The syntactic and semantic introduction of internal arguments. Poster at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL43). University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. April 25-27. [poster].
2025
Kogan, M., Cartner, M., Webster, N., Wagers, M., & Sichel, I. Subject islands are not caused by information structure clashes: cross-constructional evidence. Poster at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP38). University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. March 27-29. [poster].
2024
Webster, N., Kogan, M., Cartner, M., Wagers, M. & Sichel, I. Subject islands are not caused by information structure clashes: evidence from topicalization. Poster at the 30th Meeting of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. September 5-7. [poster].
2024
Webster, N., Byun, H. & Wagers, M. Processing arguments in Korean nominal predicates. Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP37). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. May 16-18. [poster].
2024
Webster, N. & Wagers, M. 2024. Processing thematic (mis)alignment in Korean nominals. Poster at the 6th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP[6]).Stanford University, Stanford, CA. January 13-14. [poster].
Recent invited talks
2025
Vasser, M., Webster, N., Kogan, M., Sichel, I. & Wagers M. Does presuppositionality affect DP sub-extraction? Lightning Talk and Poster at the Annual UCSC Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC). University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, CA. May 30. [poster].
2025
Webster, N., The internal arguments of Korean process nominals and complex predicates. Talk at the Workshop on Nominals and Nominalizations in Korean and Beyond. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign, IL. May 9-10. [handout].
2025
Kogan, M., Webster, N., Cartner, M., Wagers, M. & Sichel, I. Subject island effects cannot be reduced to information structure. Talk at Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC). University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, CA. March 10. [slides].