Andrew McKenzie

Invited talks

McKenzie, Andrew. 2021. Incorporation beyond the object: Interpretation and compositionality in polysynthesis. Plenary Talk. 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), University of Arizona. Available online (MP4)

McKenzie, Andrew and Jeffrey Punske. 2020. Language Development during Interstellar Travel. Colloquium, Rhodes University. Grahamstown, South Africa.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2019. Semantic licensing of noun incorporation. Colloquium, University of Arizona.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2019. Semantics: The last piece of the puzzle. Colloquium, Child Language Proseminar. University of Kansas.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2018. Resolving weak compositionality in noun incorporation with mediating relations. Colloquium. Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2017. Sources of Intensionality in English Synthetic Compounds and Kiowa Noun Incorporation. Colloquium. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2017. Emerging Functions in Switch-reference. Invited Presentation. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2015. When almost isn’t even close: The role of expectation in a counter-factual. Colloquy at University of Kansas.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2014. On the emergence of discourse-functions in switch-reference and topic dislocation. Plenary Talk. 8th Conference on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA 8), University of British Columbia.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2013. The little language that couldn’t: ‘e place of Kiowa inability modals in research on modality. Colloquium, KU Child Language Program.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2013. The little language that couldn’t: Modal investigations in Kiowa. Colloquy; KU Linguistics Department.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2013. Reference-tracking without reference. Colloquium, University of Texas at Arlington.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2009. A new look at switch-reference. Colloquium, University of California at San Diego.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2009. Switch-reference and topical situations. Five College Consortium on Native American Indian Studies. Amherst, MA.

Refereed Talks

McKenzie, Andrew, and Romina Duran. 2021 (upcoming). A Preliminary Documentation of ´ Kiowa Sentential Prosody. 25th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 25). Sogang University. Seoul, South Korea.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2020. Two types of habituals: Kiowa ingredients of a modular imperfective. Sinn und Bedeutung 25. Queen Mary University of London. London, United Kingdom.

Liu, Cynthia, McKenzie, Andrew, Gary Sutkin MD, & Mark Gray. 2020. Ambiguous Language in the Operating Room. Association for Surgical Education’s annual meeting. Seattle, WA.

Bates, Jonah & McKenzie, Andrew. 2019. A Plural to Singular Reanalysis Cycle. ‘e 21st Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 21). Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

McKenzie, Andrew & Jeffrey Punske. 2019. Language development during interstellar travel. ESTEC Interstellar workshop, European Space Agency. Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2019. The near side and the far side in Kiowa: A matter of perspective. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). New York City.  

McKenzie, Andrew & Jeffrey Punske. 2019. Gaming as pedagogy in the linguistics classroom. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 53). New York City.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2018. Kiowa verb incorporation and types of mediating relations. 10th meeting of the conference on Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA 10). Toronto, Ontario.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2018. The role of semantics in licensing English synthetic compounds. 36th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 36), Los Angeles.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2017. Sources of Intensionality in English Synthetic Compounds and Kiowa Noun Incorporation. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 51). Austin, Texas.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2017. Incorporated Expressives in Kiowa. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). Austin, Texas.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2015. Control Incorporation and Intensional Compounds. Workshop on Modality across Categories. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

McKenzie, Andrew & Lydia Newkirk. 2015. Modal restrictions from complement type of almost. Workshop on Modality across Categories. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

McKenzie, Andrew & Lydia Newkirk. 2015 Almost as a variable-force modal. 33rd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 33). Vancouver, British Columbia.

McKenzie, Andrew, Gulnar Eziz, and Travis Major. 2015. Reference to situation content in ¨ Uyghur auxiliary bolmaq. 41st meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 41). Berkeley, Calif.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2013. A new survey of switch-reference in North America. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), Boston, Mass.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2012. Context Types for Elicitation of Topicality-based Judgments. Workshop on semantic Fieldwork, 46th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 46).

McKenzie, Andrew. 2010. Subject domain restriction and reference-tracking, 20th meeting of the conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 20), University of British Columbia/Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, BC.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2009. Kiowa switch-reference and subject positions. 44th Annual meeting of the LSA (LSA 44). San Francisco, CA.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2008. Kiowa switch-reference and variable-based contextual restriction. 44th meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 44), U of Chicago.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2007. Situation semantics and switch-reference. 4th meeting of the conference on Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA 4). Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Other Talks, Conferences and Workshops

McKenzie, Andrew. 2021. Presentation at the Syntax-Semantics Circle. University of California at Berkeley.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2020. Presentation for the Linguistics Undergraduate Club of Kansas (LUCK). University of Kansas.

McKenzie, Andrew, Gary Sutkin, Cynthia Liu, & Fizza Mahmoud. 2018. Deixis in the OR. Semantics 2018: Looking Ahead. Fest in honor of Angelika Kratzer. UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2018. Flipping the Semantics Classroom. Semantics 2018: Looking Ahead. Fest in honor of Angelika Kratzer. UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2016. Repurposing in- and out-of-class time to bolster student comprehension in a gateway semantics course. C21 TRESTLE Grant Poster Workshop. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2011. Default Aspect in Kiowa. 4th Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Linguistics (OWNAL 4). Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2009. A new approach to switch-reference. 2nd Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Linguistics (OWNAL 2). Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2008. Effects of matrix quantication on sequence of tense. Festschrift for Angelika Kratzer. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

McKenzie, Andrew. 2007. A syntactic argument for a semantic EPP. ECO 5 student syntax workshop. UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA.