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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., Kędzierska, 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]

Modina, V.*, McMahon, C.*, Klimek-Jankowska, D., Gulgowski, P., Kędzierska, 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]

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.

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]

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]

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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