Presentations
Upcoming
Factual Imperfectives in Russian and Polish: A Picture Selection Task. Poster to be presented at Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav) 2026. May 27-29.
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Is 'Un' Unlike 'Not', or Not? Poster to be presented at Nothing But Negation Young Researchers' Conference, hosted by Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB), Frankfurt, Germany. May 7-8.
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]
Conference Presentations
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]
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McMahon, C.* & Modina, V.* 2024. Aspect and Negation in Russian: A Visual World Paradigm experiment. Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav), 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]
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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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