Conference presentations (abstract refereed)
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2019). Only reconstruction and backwards association. Paper presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, Dec. 18-20.
- Socolof, Michael, Bernhard Schwarz, & Aron Hirsch. (2019). Which questions, uniqueness, and answerhood: evidence from disjunction. Paper presented at the 50th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, MIT, Oct. 25-27.
- Hirsch, Aron & Bernhard Schwarz. (2019). Singular ‘which’, mention-some, and variable scope uniqueness. Paper presented at the XPrag workshop Exhaustivity in Questions and Answers: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, June 13-14.
- Hirsch, Aron & Bernhard Schwarz. (2019). Singular ‘which’, mention-some, and variable scope uniqueness. Poster presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 29, UCLA, May 17-19.
- Hirsch, Aron & Uli Sauerland. (2019). Adverbs in collective conjunction. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, Jan. 3-6.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2018). The semantic inflexibility hypothesis. Paper presented at the Ambigo workshop on ambiguity, University of Göttingen, July 4-6.
- Alonso-Ovalle, Luis & Aron Hirsch. (2018). Keep ‘only’ strong. Poster presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 28, MIT, May 18-20.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2018). Epistemically-sensitive ‘only’. Poster presented at the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA, April 20-22.
- Hirsch, Aron & Ezer Rasin. (2017). An evolutionary effect of simplicity bias on the typology of logical operators. Poster presented at the Workshop on Simplicity in Grammar Learning, MIT, Sept. 23.
- Quek, Yihui & Aron Hirsch. (2016). Separating focus meanings and focus forms in Standard and Colloquial Singapore English. Poster presented at the 47th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Oct. 14-16.
- Zehr, Jérémy, Aron Hirsch, Akiva Bacovcin, & Florian Schwarz. (2016). Priming local accommodation of hard triggers in disjunction. Paper presented at the 47th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Oct. 14-16.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2016). Disjoined questions as mention-some questions. Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh, Sept. 4-6.
- Hirsch, Aron, Florian Schwarz, & Jérémy Zehr. (2016). Presupposition projection from disjunction in online processing. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh, Sept. 4-6.
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2015). Right node raising, scope, and plurality. Paper presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, Dec. 16-18.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2015). “DP conjunction” as vP conjunction: a case for conjunction reduction. Paper presented at the 46th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, Concordia University, Oct. 16-18.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2015). A compositional semantics for wh-ever free relatives. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Sept. 9-12.
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2015). Syntactic constraints on the variability of prosodic phrasing and parenthetical placement. Paper presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 3, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 28-30.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2015). An unexceptional semantics for expressions of exception. Paper presented at the 39th Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 20-22.
- Hirsch, Aron (2015). Exhaustivity and polarity mismatch. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, Jan. 8-11.
- Brillman, Ruth & Aron Hirsch. (2015). An anti-locality account of English subject/non-subject asymmetries. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of American Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, Jan. 8-11.
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2014). Prosodic evidence that parentheticals are placed by rightward movement. Paper presented at the 45th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, MIT, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2014). Exhaustivity and polarity-mismatch. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, The Ohio State University, March 13-15.
- Brillman, Ruth & Aron Hirsch. (2014). Don’t move too close. Paper presented at the 50th meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, April 10-12.
- Hirsch, Aron & Martin Hackl. (2014). Incremental processing and presupposition evaluation in disjunction. Paper presented at Linguistic Evidence, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Feb. 13-15.
- Hirsch, Aron & Martin Hackl. (2014). Incremental processing and presupposition evaluation in disjunction. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Jan. 2-5.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2013). Is the domain for weight computation the syllable or the interval? Paper presented at Phonology 2013, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Nov. 9-11.
- Hirsch, Aron & Martin Hackl. (2013). Incremental presupposition evaluation in disjunction. Paper presented at the 44th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, U. of Connecticut, Oct. 18-20.
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2011). Syntactic differences in the reliability of prosodic disambiguation. Paper presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 2, McGill University, Sept. 23-25.
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2011). Context and prominence in English intransitive sentences. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 2, McGill University, Sept. 23-25.
- Hirsch, Aron & Michael Wagner. (2011). Patterns of prosodic prominence in English intransitive sentences. Paper presented at the 34th Generative Linguistics in the Old World, University of Vienna, April 29-30.
Invited talks
- Hirsch, Aron. (2020). Singular questions with multiple answers. Colloquium talk at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Linguistics, Jan. 21. (presenting joint work with Bernhard Schwarz and Michaela Socolof)
- Hirsch, Aron. (2020). Deconstructing only. Colloquium talk at Tel Aviv University, Department of Linguistics, Jan. 3.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2019). Singular questions with multiple answers. Invited talk at the University of Oxford, Department of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, Dec. 3. (presenting joint work with Bernhard Schwarz)
- Hirsch, Aron. (2019). Towards an inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators. Colloquium talk at the University of Minnesota, Institute of Linguistics, Feb. 21.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2019). Only as a concord phenomenon. Colloquium talk at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Linguistics, Feb. 15.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2018). Deconstructing only. Semantics Circle talk at ZAS Berlin, March 23.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2018). Towards an inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators. Semantics Circle talk at ZAS Berlin, March 5.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2018). Towards an inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators. Colloquium talk at University of Southern California, Department of Linguistics, Feb. 23.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2018). Towards an inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators. Colloquium talk at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Linguistics, Feb. 9.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2017). Only, modals, and pseudo-clefts. Colloquium talk at McGill University, Department of Linguistics, Oct. 6.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2017). Linking semantics and syntax: coordination and beyond. Colloquium talk at Boston University, Department of Linguistics, Feb. 6.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2017). An inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators. Colloquium talk at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Linguistics, Jan. 27.
- Hirsch, Aron. (2016). A case for conjunction reduction. Colloquium talk at McGill University, Department of Linguistics, Feb. 4.