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Selected presentations

• Sailor, Craig. 2025. Notes on mixed-modality expressions. Presented at Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM), Trinity College Dublin.
• Sailor, Craig and Jim Wood. 2025. A ‘quare’ intensifier in Irish English. Presented at The 50th Irish Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (IRAAL 50), Trinity College Dublin.
• Colasanti, Valentina and Craig Sailor. 2025. Some formal properties of gestural polar response markers. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB), University of Suffolk.
• Griffiths, James and Craig Sailor. 2024. Acceptability judgment experiments on PPs with gaps in. Presented at Linguistic Evidence 2024, University of Potsdam.
• Sailor, Craig. 2023. A conceptual argument for ellipsis as null exponence. Invited talk in the Linguistics talks series, Princeton University.
• Sailor, Craig. 2022. Ellipsis in a modular perspective. Presented at GLOW 45, Queen Mary University of London.
• Newell, Heather and Craig Sailor. 2022. Inclusiveness, the interface, and the Prosodic Hierarchy. Presented at the Morpho-Syn Syndicate speaker series, Penn State University (online).
• Sailor, Craig. 2021. Partial V2: Residue or innovation? Presented at the Residual Verb Second in Romance workshop 1, 10 June 2021, Oslo, Norway (online).
• Sailor, Craig and Valentina Colasanti. 2020. Co-speech gestures under ellipsis: a first look. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2020 Annual Meeting, 5 January 2020, New Orleans, LA. [Updated handout available here.]
• Sailor, Craig. 2019. Situating ellipsis within the derivational timeline. Presented at the Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50 workshop, 13 April 2019, Chicago, IL.
• Sailor, Craig and Gary Thoms. 2019. Exhortative clauses in Scots. Presented at the European Dialect Syntax (EDiSyn) Workshop IX, 23 March 2019, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Ahn, Byron and Craig Sailor. 2019. The landscape of semantics-prosody mismatches. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2019 Annual Meeting, 3 January 2019, New York City, NY.
• Craig Sailor. 2018. Apparent rule orderings involving ellipsis. Keynote talk at the Timing of Ellipsis workshop, 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE), 31 August 2018, University of Tallinn, Estonia.
• Sailor, Craig and James Griffiths. 2017. Probing the PP domain: complex possessive PPs in British English. Presented at the Morphosyntactic Variation in Adpositions Workshop, 8 May 2017, University of Cambridge, England. [Note: this project is ongoing, but see here for an earlier version that appeared in print.]
• Thoms, Gary and Craig Sailor. 2017. When silence gets in the way: Extraction from do-ellipsis in British Dialects. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2017 Annual Meeting, 6 January 2017, Austin, TX. [Note: this project is ongoing, but see here for an earlier version that appeared in print.]
• Sailor, Craig. 2016. Rethinking 'residual' verb second. Presented at the Rethinking Verb Second workshop, 22 March 2016, University of Cambridge, England. [Note: the paper is available here.]
• Sailor, Craig. 2015. Polarity-Driven Inversion in British English and Beyond. Invited talk in the University College London syntax group. 20 February 2015, London, England. [Note: the paper is available here.]
• Ahn, Byron and Craig Sailor. 2014. Obligatory Object Gaps in Infinitival Clauses. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2014 Annual Meeting, 2 January 2014, Minneapolis, MN.
• Sailor, Craig. 2013. Questionable Negation. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2013 Annual Meeting, 3 January 2013, Boston, MA.
• Sailor, Craig. 2012. The Size of Silence: Diagnosing the Fine Structure of VP Ellipsis. Invited talk in the Talks in Linguistics series, 16 November 2012, University of Illinois at Chicago. [Note: see chapter 1 of my dissertation for an expanded version of this work.]
• Sailor, Craig. 2012. On Embedded Polar Replies. Presented at the Workshop on the Syntax of Answers to Polar Questions, 9 June 2012, Newcastle University.
• Sailor, Craig. 2012. Remarks on Replies: on Emphatic Polarity in English. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2012 Annual Meeting, 5 January 2012, Portland, OR. [Note: see chapter 3 of my dissertation for an expanded version of this work.]
• Sailor, Craig and Byron Ahn. 2010. The Voices in our Heads: The VoiceP in English. Ms., UCLA. Presented at the Workshop on Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces, June 25-27 2010, University of Vienna.
• Sailor, Craig and Grace Kuo. 2010. Taiwanese VP Ellipsis and the Progressive Prohibition. Ms., UCLA. Presented at the joint meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics 18 (IACL-18) and the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 22 (NACCL-22), Harvard University.