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Conference Presentations

McMahon, C. 2026. Factual Imperfectives in Russian: A picture-selection task. Talk at Interdisciplinary Methodologies in Linguistic Research (INTERMET) online seminar, the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IJP PAN), Krakow, Poland. May 29th. [Slides]

 

Klimek-Jankowska, D., Gulgowski, P., KÄ™dzierska, H., McMahon, C., Modina, V. & I. Sekerina. 2026. Negation Processing in Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian: Evidence from Eye-movements in Blank Screen Visual World Paradigm. Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav), University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia. May 28th. [Poster]

 

McMahon, C., Klimek-Jankowska, D, & I. Sekerina. 2026. Factual Imperfectives in Russian and Polish: A Picture Selection Task. Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav), University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia. May 27th. [Poster]

 

MacSwan, X.* & C. McMahon.* 2026. Is 'Un' Unlike 'Not', or Not? Nothing But Negation Young Researchers' Conference, hosted by Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB), Frankfurt, Germany. May 7th. [Poster]

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Modina, V.*, McMahon, C.*, Klimek-Jankowska, D., Gulgowski, P., KÄ™dzierska, H., & I. Sekerina. 2026. Aspect and Negation: Processing of Pragmatic Implicature in Russian and Polish. Human Sentence Processing  (HSP) 39, MIT, Cambridge, MA. March 28th. [Poster]

 

McMahon, C. 2025. Negation and Predication in Slavic Languages. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 34 (FASL), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. May 16th. [Slides]

 

McMahon, C.* & Modina, V.* 2025. Interactions of Aspect and Negation in Russian and Polish: Evidence from the Visual World Paradigm. The Workshop on Processing and Evaluating Event Representations (PEER25), University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. April 18th. [Slides]

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McMahon, C.* & Modina, V.* 2024. Aspect and Negation in Russian: A Visual World Paradigm experiment. Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav), University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland. July 10th. [Poster]

 

McMahon, C. 2024. A Unified Syntactic Analysis of Double Negation in Slavic Languages. 60th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS). University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 27th. [Slides]

 

Kohut, A.* & McMahon, C.* 2023. Double Negation in Russian: Variation in the functional structure of PPs. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51, Queens College, New York, NY, October 14th.

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Kohut, A.* & McMahon, C.* 2023. Disambiguating Double and Single Negation Readings in Russian. 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society (SLS), Bratislava, Slovakia, August 26th.

Invited Talks

​McMahon, C. 2025. Analyzing Predicate NCIs in Russian and Polish. CUNY Syntax Lab, New York, NY, March 5th. [Handout]

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McMahon, C.*, Modina, V.*, Klimek-Jankowska, D. & I. Sekerina. 2024. Aspect, Negation, and the Visual World Paradigm: An investigation into Russian and Polish. Slavic Linguistics Colloquium (SlavLingColl), Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, December 19th. [Slides]

 

McMahon, C. 2024. Double Negation in Strict Negative Concord Languages: Analyzing constituent negation. Yale Syntax Reading Group (Yale SynRG), New Haven, CT, March 29th. [Handout]

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McMahon, C. 2023. Not Unavailable: Toward a complete analysis of double negation readings in Slavic languages. Syntax near NYU (SynNYU), New York, NY, November 17th. [Slides]

Other Presentations

McMahon, C. 2023. Syntactic Variation in American English Dialects. Guest Lecture for ENGL 280-05: Structures of Modern English, Hunter College, New York, NY, November 20th.

 

McMahon, C. & Pember, K. 2020. Much Ado About For Nothing: Challenging the Definition of Strict Negative Concord. Boston University Linguistics Department Graduate Research Forum, Boston, MA, November 11th.

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