Experience

• 2023–presentProfessor, School of Philosophy, University of Southern California (USC)
• 2022–presentCourtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology, USC
• 2018–presentCourtesy appointment in the Department of Linguistics, USC
• 2017–presentAffiliated faculty in the Cognitive Science Program, USC
• 2017–presentDirector of the USC Dornsife Meaning Lab
• 2023–2025Dean’s Leadership Fellow in the Humanities, Dornsife College, USC
• 2022–2025Deputy Director, School of Philosophy, USC
• 2020–2023Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, USC
• 2017–2020Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy, USC
• 2015–2017Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University (NU)
• 2015–2017Affiliated faculty in the Department of Philosophy, NU
• 2015–2017Affiliated faculty in the Cognitive Science Program
• 2014–2017Director of the NU Weinberg Child Language Development Lab
• 2014–2015College Fellow, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, NU
• 2008–2009Baggett Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland (UMD)

Education

• 2014PhD, Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park
• 2012North American Summer School for Logic, Language & Information (NASSLLI), UT Austin
• 2010North American Summer School for Logic, Language & Information (NASSLLI), Indiana U
• 2010Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (NSF IGERT) Winter Storm, UMD
• 2009Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (NSF IGERT) Winter Storm, UMD
• 2009Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG), Poznań, Poland
• 2008BA, Honours Linguistics (with Great Distinction), Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Grants & awards

• 2023–2025National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, BCS-2315167
  DDRIG: The grammar of number, countability, and measurement, Co-PIs Pancheva & Toquero-Pérez: $18,378
• 2017–2022National Science Foundation, Division of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, BCS-1829225
  Individuating and comparing objects and events, Sole PI: $462,000
• 2019Albert S. Raubenheimer Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Dornsife College, USC
• 2013Graduate Student Service Award, College of Arts and Humanities, UMD
• 2010–2012Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral award, 752-2010-0499
  Mind and modality, Sole PI: $60,000
• 2010–2011University of Maryland Language Science fellowship
  Comparative measurement, Sole PI: $10,000
• 2008Faculty Scholar, Arts and Sciences top 1% of cohort, Concordia

Affiliations

• 2019–presentSociety for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)
• 2017–presentAmerican Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Division
• 2017–presentAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2012–presentCognitive Science Society (CSS)
• 2009–presentLinguistic Society of America (LSA)
• 2008–presentCanadian Linguistic Association (CLA)

Publications

Books

• in progressWellwood, A. The Grammar of Events. [proposal under review at OUP]
• 2019Wellwood, A. The Meaning of More. Oxford University Press.

Papers

Key: refereed refereed paper; refereed abstract refereed abstract.

Key: ^* graduate student advisee, ^** undergraduate student advisee, ^† equal contributions, senior contributor is underlined.

• under reviewrefereedWellwood, A. Linguistic meaning needs stable concepts.
• acceptedrefereedWellwood, A. Events and argument structure. Accepted for Annual Review of Linguistics.
• forthcomingrefereedClarke, S. & A. Wellwood. Three brands of concept nativism. Invited submission for a special issue of Analysis.
• 2026Wellwood, A. Acquiring a meaning for more. In G. Dupré, K. Stanton, and R. Nefdt (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics.
• 2024refereedCariani,^† F., P. Santorio,^† and A. Wellwood.^† Confidence reports. Semantics & Pragmatics, 17(14), pp1-40. doi:10.3765/sp.17.14
• 2024refereedOdic, O., T. Knowlton, A. Wellwood, P. Pietroski, J. Lidz, & J. Halberda. Observers efficiently extract the minimal and maximal element in perceptual magnitude sets: Evidence for a bipartite format. Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/09567976231223130
• 2024refereedKim, N., A. Wellwood, M. Yoshida. Processing wh-filler-gap dependencies. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1177/17470218241231872.
• 2024refereedWellwood, A. & T. Hunter. Linguistic meanings in mind [commentary]. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23001887
• 2024refereedWadle, D.,* Bansal, D.,** & A. Wellwood. Temporal constitution and the event/process distinction. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• 2023refereed abstractCariani, F.,^† P. Santorio,^† & A. Wellwood.^† Positive gradable adjective ascriptions without positive morphemes. In M. Onoeva, A. Staņková, and R. Şimík (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 27, 96-113.
• 2023refereed abstractSantorio, P.^† & A. Wellwood.^† Nonboolean conditionals. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2, 252-264. doi:10.3765/elm.2.5377
• 2023refereedWellwood, A. Children’s understanding of verbal comparatives. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 40-47). escholarship.org/uc/item/24h4347d
• 2023refereedHunter, T., and A. Wellwood. Linguistic meanings interpreted. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 420-426). escholarship.org/uc/item/8z42k98v
• 2022refereed abstractWellwood, A. Framing events in the logic of adverbial modification. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32, 294-313. doi:10.3765/salt.v1i0.5354
• 2022Mandelbaum, E., Y. Dunham, R. Feiman, C. Firestone, E.J. Green, D. Harris, M. M. Kibbe, B. Kurdi, M. Mylopoulos, J. Shepherd, A. Wellwood, N. Porot, J. Quilty-Dunn. Problems and mysteries of the many languages of thought. Part of the “Progress & Puzzles” Call for Letters, Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.13225
• 2022refereedHe, A. X. and A. Wellwood. Most is easy but least is hard: Novel determiner learning in 4-year-olds. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1056-1063). escholarship.org/uc/item/5hh4m526
• 2021refereedKnowlton, T., T. Hunter, D. Odic, A. Wellwood, J. Halberda, P. Pietroski, J. Lidz. Linguistic meanings as cognitive instructions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1500, 134-144. doi:10.1111/nyas.14618
• 2021refereed abstractCastillo-Gamboa, J.*, A. Wellwood, D. Rudin. Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 1, 78-89. doi:10.3765/elm.1.4872
• 2020refereedWellwood, A. Interpreting degree semantics. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, ‘Theory’ section. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02972
• 2020refereedFarkas, H.^* & A. Wellwood. Quantifying events and activities. For P. Hallman (Ed.), Interactions of Degree and Quantification. Syntax and Semantics series, Brill.
• 2019refereedWellwood, A., H. F. Farkas, & A. X. He. Events and processes in language and mind. Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 13. doi:10.4148/1944-3676.1122
• 2019Wellwood, A. What more is. Philosophical Perspectives, 32, Philosophy of Language, 454-486. doi:10.1111/phpe.12121
• 2018refereed abstractWellwood, A. Structure preservation in comparatives. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28, 78-99. doi:10.3765/salt.v28i0.4413
• 2018refereedWellwood, A., R. Pancheva, V. Hacquard, & C. Phillips. The anatomy of a comparative illusion. Journal of Semantics, 35(3), 543-583. doi:10.1093/jos/ffy014
• 2018refereedWellwood, A., S. J. Hespos, & L. Rips. (2018). How similar are objects and events? Acta Linguistica, 15(2-3), 473-501. doi:10.1556/2062.2018.65.2-3.9
• 2018Tucker,^* D., B. Tomaszewicz, & A. Wellwood.^§ Decomposition and processing of negative comparatives. In E. Castroviejo Miró, G. Sassoon, and L. McNally (Eds.), The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: Experimental Perspectives (pp. 243-273). Language, Cognition and Mind series, Springer.
• 2018Wellwood, A., S. Hespos, & L. Rips. The object : substance :: event : process analogy. Chapter 8 of T. Lombrozo, J. Knobe, & S. Nicholas (Eds.), Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume II (pp. 183-212). Oxford University Press.
• 2017refereedHunter, T., J. Lidz, D. Odic, & A. Wellwood. On how verification tasks are related to verification procedures: A reply to Kotek et al. Natural Language Semantics, 25, 91-107. doi:10.1007/s11050-016-9130-7
• 2016refereed abstractWellwood, A. States and events for S-level gradable adjectives. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, 166-184. doi:10.3765/salt.v26i0.3802
• 2016refereedDunbar, E.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† Addressing the “two interface” problem: Comparatives and superlatives. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 1(1): 5.1-29. doi:10.5334/gjgl.9
• 2016refereedWellwood, A., A. Gagliardi, & J. Lidz. Syntactic and lexical inference in the acquisition of novel superlatives. Language Learning & Development. doi:10.1080/15475441.2015.1052878
• 2016refereedBakhshandeh, O., A. Wellwood, & J. F. Allen. Learning to jointly predict ellipsis and comparison structures. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). aclanthology.org/K16-1007
• 2015refereedWellwood, A. On the semantics of comparison across categories. Linguistics & Philosophy, 38(1), 67-101. doi:10.1007/s10988-015-9165-0
• 2015refereed abstractWellwood, A., A. X. He, J. Lidz, & A. Williams. Participant structure in event perception: Towards the acquisition of implicitly 3-place predicates. Volume 21.1 of Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 38. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania. repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol21/iss1/32/
• 2014refereedVogel, C.,^† A. Wellwood,^† R. Dudley, & B. Ritchie. Talking about causing events. Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic, and Communication: Vol. 9. doi:10.4148/1944-3676.1092
• 2012refereedWellwood, A., V. Hacquard, & R. Pancheva. Measuring and comparing individuals and events. Journal of Semantics, 29(2), 207-228. doi:10.1093/jos/ffr006
• 2012refereed abstractWellwood, A. Back to basics: more is always much-er. In E. Chemla, V. Homer, & G. Winterstein (eds.), Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 17 (pp. 599-616). Paris, France: École Normale Supérieure.
• 2012refereed abstractWellwood, A., D. Odic, J. Halberda, T. Hunter, P. Pietroski, & J. Lidz. Meaning more or most: evidence from 3-and-a-half year-olds. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.
• 2012refereedWellwood, A., D. Odic, J. Halberda & J. Lidz. Choosing quantity over quality: syntax guides interpretive preferences for novel superlatives. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1126-1130). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v53v2fj
• 2012refereedHacquard, V.^† & A. Wellwood.^† Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study. Semantics & Pragmatics, 5(4), 1-29. doi:10.3765/sp.5.4
• 2011refereed abstractGagnon, M.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† Distributivity and modality: where each may go, every can’t follow. In N. Ashton, A. Chereches, & D. Lutz (eds.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21 (pp. 39-55). Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
• 2010refereed abstractHunter, T., J. Lidz, A. Wellwood, & A. Conroy. Restrictions on the meanings of determiners: Typological generalisations and learnability. In E. Cormany, S. Ito, & D. Lutz (eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 19 (pp. 223-238). Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
• 2010refereed abstractGagnon, M.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† The topology of distributivity and epistemic containment phenomena. In M. Heijl (ed.), Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference (pp. 1-13). Montréal, Canada: Concordia University.
• 2009refereed abstractGagnon, M.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† The syntax of wh- and polar questions in Marshallese. Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 2009. Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.
• 2008refereed abstractGagnon, M.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† Interrogative Structures in Marshallese. In S. Jones (ed.), Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference (pp.1-12). Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia.

Manuscripts & works in progress

Key: ^* graduate student advisee, ^** undergraduate student advisee, ^† equal contributions, senior contributor is underlined.

• in prepWellwood, A. A unified morphosemantics for comparative and additive meanings.
• in prepHessian,** S., P. Pietroski, & A. Wellwood. Graded plurals and indeterminacy.
• in prepChristensen,** K., & A. Wellwood. A syntactic guide to quantifying color changes.
• in prepJiang,** L., & A. Wellwood. Context effects in the resolution of more furniture
• in prepClarke, S.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† Mad dog nativism for sane people.
• in prepWellwood, A., D. Odic, et al. (the) most at the interface.
• 2024 m.s.Kobos, D.,* & A. Wellwood. Invariance in natural language.
• 2016 m.s.Larson, B.,^† & A. Wellwood.^† Agreement and implicit arguments in clausal comparatives.

Presentations

Invited

• 2027Colloquium presentation. TBD (April 2027). Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science Colloquium Series (RuCCS), Rutgers University
• 2027Colloquium presentation. TBD (March 2027). University of Maryland Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park
• 2027Plenary address. TBD (March 2027). The 63rd meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, U Chicago
• 2026Colloquium presentation. TBD (December 2026). Georgetown University.
• 2026Workshop presentation. More and the architecture of mind. Dubrovnik Philosophy & Linguistics
• 2026Colloquium presentation. More and the architecture of mind. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Cognitive Science
• 2025Symposium presentation. Two kinds of concepts for cognitive science. Symposium on concepts, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cornell University
• 2025Plenary address. Binding and quantifying representations of states, processes, and events. The 4th Workshop on Processing and Evaluating Event Representations. University of Rochester
• 2024Ling/Lang colloquium. Packaging comparative thoughts. Department of Philosophy & Linguistics (jointly), MIT
• 2024Workshop presentation. Semantics at the language-mind interface. Symposium on Language and Thought, at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
• 2024Colloquium presentation. Naturalizing and quantifying events and processes. Department of Linguistics, UPenn
• 2024Colloquium presentation. Graded plurals and indeterminacy. Department of Linguistics, UC Davis
• 2024Colloquium presentation. Kinds of comparatives. Department of Linguistics, Philology, & Phonetics, University of Oxford
• 2024Commentary on S. Carey and E. Mandelbaum on structured representations, Eastern APA, NYC
• 2024Workshop presentation. Mad dog nativism for sane people. Workshop on Language and Thought. Brown University
• 2024Workshop presentation. Graded plurals and indeterminacy. X Workshop on Language, Context, and Cognition. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Péru (PUCP)
• 2023Commentary on O. Magidor & D. Liebesman’s Copredication and Property Versatility, Banff
• 2023Workshop presentation. Packaging comparative thoughts. Philosophy of Language & Linguistics workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• 2023Colloquium presentation. Temporal constitution in language and mind. Linguistics, UCLA
• 2023Workshop presentation. Packaging comparative thoughts. Workshop on degrees, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2023Colloquium presentation. Packaging comparative thoughts. Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
• 2022Participant in D. Poeppel and N. Kazanina’s multidisciplinary Beyond Associations summit, sponsored by The Foundations Institute, UCSB, the SAGE Center, Max Planck Society, and the Ernst Struengmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt
• 2022Workshop presentation. A window into the mind. Mayfest, UMD
• 2022Colloquium presentation. Abstraction and quantification. Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
• 2022Nonboolean conditionals. (w/ P. Santorio), Meaning Group, Philosophy & Linguistics, UMD
• 2022Confidence reports. (w/ F. Cariani & P. Santorio) Meaning Group, Philosophy & Linguistics, UMD
• 2021Plenary address. Composition, comparison, and cognition. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DuCog): Linguistic and Cognitive Foundations of Meaning, Cognitive Science Association, University of Zagreb
• 2021Colloquium presentation. Composition, comparison, and cognition. Philosophy, Keele University, UK
• 2020Commentary on M. Wilson’s Physics Avoidance, Eastern APA, Philadelphia PA
• 2020Commentary on D. Kochan’s Framing the Constitution: The Impact of Labels on Constitutional Interpretation, Institute for Humane Studies, Washington DC
• 2019Colloquium presentation. Labeling and quantifying events. Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego
• 2019Workshop presentation. Labeling and quantifying events. Philosophy of Language in Lima, PUCP
• 2019Workshop presentation. What more is. Workshop on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Stanford
• 2019Colloquium presentation. Meaning more – at the interface. Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
• 2019Colloquium presentation. Seeing and talking about events. Department of Language Science, UC Irvine
• 2019Brown bag lunch talk. What more is. Semantics tea, UCLA
• 2019Brown bag lunch talk. What more is. SemBabble, UC San Diego
• 2018Plenary address. Events at the language-vision interface. Symposium on Cognition, Communication, Semantics, and Logic: Event Perception and Cognition, Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics, University of Latvia
• 2018Workshop presentation. Objects and events in language and mind. NY Philosophy of Language Workshop (NYPLW), NYU
• 2018Workshop presentation. Adjectives and structural telicity. The Semantics and Metaphysics of Aspect, Franklin & Marshall
• 2018Brown bag lunch talk. Adjectives and events. Philosophy of Language group, Columbia University
• 2017Workshop presentation. Confidence reports. (w/ Cariani & Santorio.) Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy (PhLiP), Tarrytown NY
• 2017Colloquium presentation. Conceptualizing comparatives. Department of Linguistics, NYU
• 2017Colloquium presentation. Meaning, vision, and acquisition. Department of Linguistics, MIT
• 2017Colloquium presentation. How to mean more. Department of Philosophy, USC
• 2017Workshop presentation. Comparatives and number. Philosophy and Linguistics in Dubrovnik, Croatia
• 2016Workshop presentation. Being something worth counting. Psycholinguistics of quantification, U of Wrocław, Poland
• 2016Colloquium presentation. Dimensions of comparison. Department of Linguistics, Michigan State
• 2015Colloquium presentation. Sources of evidence in semantics. Department of Linguistics, Indiana University
• 2015Colloquium presentation. Finding meaning in formal semantics. Linguistics, University of Utah
• 2015Colloquium presentation. Measurement in grammar. Linguistics, University of Chicago
• 2015Colloquium presentation. Sources of evidence in semantics. Linguistics, Concordia University
• 2015Brown bag lunch talk. Comparing across categories. Semantics group, McGill University
• 2014Colloquium presentation. With meaning in mind: tests at the interfaces. Linguistics, NU
• 2014Brown bag lunch talk. Comparatives, neodavidsonian. Semantics group, Stony Brook University
• 2014Brown bag lunch talk. With meaning in mind: tests at the interfaces. Cognition & Language series, Stanford
• 2013Workshop presentation. What ‘meaning’ can (and probably should) mean. Emerging Ideas series, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
• 2013Colloquium presentation. A new semantics for measurement. Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
• 2013Brown bag lunch talk. What ‘meaning’ can (and probably should) mean. Semantics Circle, Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin
• 2012Workshop presentation. Composing cross-categorial comparatives. Much ado about much, Universität Konstanz, Germany
• 2011Colloquium presentation. The comparative similarity of NP and VP. Linguistics, Concordia University

Contributed (refereed papers/abstracts)

Key: ^* graduate student advisee, ^** undergraduate student advisee, presenter is underlined.

• 2026(Talk) Yoshida, Wellwood. “Transitive” adverbs and the internal structure of adverb phrases. WAASAP 7, Paris (withdrawn)
• 2026(Poster) Jiang,** Wellwood. Context effects in the interpretation of more furniture. ELM
• 2025(Talk) Christensen,** Wellwood. Syntax drives dimensionality in non-canonical adjectival comparatives. CLA
• 2024(Poster) Wadle, Bansal,** Wellwood. Temporal constitution and the event/process distinction. CSS
• 2023(Talk) Wellwood. Children’s understanding of verbal comparatives. CSS
• 2023(Talk) Hunter & Wellwood. Interpreting linguistic meanings. CSS
• 2022(Talk) Cariani, Santorio, & Wellwood. Positive gradable adjective ascriptions with states, not degrees. SuB
• 2022(Talk) He & Wellwood. Most is easy but least is hard: Novel determiner learning in 4-year-olds. CSS
• 2022(Poster) Wellwood. Framing events in the logic of adverbials. SALT
• 2022(Poster) Santorio & Wellwood. Nonboolean conditionals. ELM
• 2021(Talk) Castillo-Gamboa,* Rudin, Wellwood. Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller. SPP
• 2021(Talk) Wellwood, He. Aspects of comparing adjectives. CLA
• 2020(Talk) Santorio & Wellwood. Non-Boolean conditionals. DGfS, “Model and Evidence”
• 2020(Talk) He, & Wellwood. Learning is biased: most is easy but least is hard. AMLaP-Asia
• 2020(Talk) Wellwood, Rips, Hespos. Exploring the analogy between object and event representation. Events and event structure at the limits of grammar (EESLiG), Oxford U.
• 2020(Poster) Castillo-Gamboa,* Wellwood, Rudin. Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller. ELM
• 2019(Talk) Wellwood, Pietroski, & He. Graded plurals & indeterminacy. SPP
• 2019(Talk) Wellwood & He. Evaluating comparatives with superordinate mass nouns. CLA
• 2019(Poster) Kim, Yoshida, & Wellwood. Object who is processed differently from subject who, why, how. CUNY
• 2018(Talk) Wellwood. Structure preservation in comparatives. SALT
• 2018(Talk) Wellwood. Natural language metaphysics revisited. CLA
• 2017(Talk) Farkas^* & Wellwood. Comparing events and activities with more. LSA
• 2017(Poster) Kim, Yoshida, & Wellwood. Online processing of wh-adjuncts. CUNY Sentence Processing
• 2016(Talk) Wellwood, Hespos, & Rips. How similar are objects and events? SuB
• 2016(Talk) Wellwood, Hespos, & Rips. Object : substance :: event : process. CSS
• 2016(Talk) Wellwood. Event quantification with adjectives. CLA
• 2016(Talk) Wellwood. States and events in comparatives with adjectives. LSA
• 2016(Poster) Wellwood. States and events for S-level gradable adjectives. SALT
• 2016(Poster) Wellwood. States and events in the semantics of stage-level predications. WCCFL
• 2016(Poster) Farkas^* & Wellwood. Comparative dimensionality of event and activity verbs. SSWAMP
• 2016(Poster) Tucker^* & Wellwood. Decomposition and processing of negative adjectival comparatives. SSWAMP
• 2016(Poster) Tucker,^* Tomaszewicz, & Wellwood. Decomposition and processing of negative adjectival comparatives. AMLaP
• 2016(Poster) Farkas^* & Wellwood. Verifying who ‘jumped more’ and ‘higher’ in simple events. CSS
• 2015(Talk) Way^** & Wellwood. An interval-based solution to Rullmann ambiguities. SWAMP
• 2015(Talk) Kim, Yoshida, & Wellwood. Two whys in English. SWAMP
• 2015(Talk) Larson & Wellwood. A long-distance syntax-semantics for comparatives. WCCFL
• 2014(Talk) He, Wellwood, Lidz & Williams. When participant structure and argument structure do not match: participant structure construction in adults and prelinguistic infants. IASCL
• 2014(Talk) Wellwood, He, Lidz, & Williams. Participant structure in event perception: Towards the acquisition of implicitly 3-place predicates. PLC
• 2014(Poster) He, Wellwood, Lidz, & Williams. Verb learning and the perception of three-participant events in infants and adults. ICIS
• 2014(Poster) Wellwood. Decomposing gradable adjectives and introducing degrees. LSA
• 2013(Talk) Wellwood, Vogel, Dudley, & Ritchie. Talking about causing events. International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication 9: Perception and Concepts, University of Riga
• 2013(Talk) Wellwood. Grading attitudes. Philosophy and Linguistics workshop (PHLINC), UMD
• 2013(Poster) He, Wellwood, Lidz, & Williams. Assessing event perception in adults and prelinguistic children: A prelude to syntactic bootstrapping. LSA in Minneapolis (Jan 2014), BUCLD
• 2013(Poster) Wellwood. How much plurals count. MACSIM
• 2013(Poster) Odic, Wellwood, Pietroski, Lidz, Hunter, & Halberda. How word meanings interface with cognition: a case-study of children’s acquisition of ‘most’. SRCD
• 2013(Poster) Gagliardi, Wellwood, & Lidz. Modeling meaning choice for novel adjectives using Bayesian learning. LSA
• 2012(Talk) Gagliardi, Wellwood, & Lidz. With no help from syntax: Four models of meaning choice for novel adjectives. NELS
• 2012(Talk) Wellwood. Back to basics: more is always much-er. SuB
• 2012(Talk) Wellwood, Odic, Halberda & Lidz. Choosing quantity over quality: syntax guides interpretive preferences for novel superlatives. CSS
• 2012(Talk) Wellwood, Odic, Halberda, Hunter, Pietroski, & Lidz. Meaning more or most: evidence from 3-and-a-half year-olds. CLS
• 2012(Talk) Chacón & Wellwood. A superlative puzzle for Boškovič’s NP/DP parameter. Languages with and without articles, CNRS
• 2012(Talk) Wellwood, Halberda, Pietroski, & Lidz. When to quantify: syntactic cues in the acquisition of novel superlatives. LSA
• 2012(Poster) Halberda, Pietroski, Hunter, Odic, Wellwood, & Lidz. More & most: spatial vision affects word understanding on an iPad. VSS
• 2012(Poster) Wellwood, Vogel, Ritchie, Dudley, & Bennett. Events and their causes: a transparency issue. MACSIM
• 2011(Poster) Gagnon & Wellwood. Distributivity and modality: where each may go, every can’t follow. SALT
• 2010(Talk) Gagnon & Wellwood. The topology of distributivity and epistemic containment phenomena. CLA
• 2010(Talk) Wellwood, Hacquard, & Pancheva. The measure and comparison of events. GLOW
• 2010(Talk) Wellwood. The uniformity of nominal and verbal comparatives. MACSIM
• 2010(Talk) Wellwood. Telicity, aspect, and comparison. ECO5
• 2010(Poster) Gagnon & Wellwood. Epistemic containment and the distribution of quantifiers. MACSIM
• 2009(Poster) Hunter, Lidz, Wellwood, & Conroy. Restrictions on the meanings of determiners: typological generalisations and learnability. SALT
• 2009(Poster) Wellwood, Pancheva, Hacquard, Fults, & Phillips. The role of event comparison in comparative illusions. CUNY Sentence Processing
• 2008(Talk) Gagnon & Wellwood. Localizing the Marshallese question particle ke. AFLA
• 2008(Talk) Gagnon & Wellwood. Interrogative structures in Marshallese. CLA
• 2008(Talk) Wellwood. To move or not to move: that is the Question. Harvard UG colloquium
• 2008(Talk) Gagnon, Reiss, Stockall, & Wellwood. Categorical skepticism concerning gradience in Hungarian harmonic and disharmonic root vowels. GLOW

Internal interdisciplinary talks

• 2026Context effects in understanding more furniture. S-Side Story Lab, USC Linguistics
• 2024Graded plurals and indeterminacy. Syntax+ Lab, USC Linguistics
• 2022Labeling and quantifying events in child language. DevSci Division, USC Psychology
• 2021Bootstrapping dimensions for comparison. Language Processing Lab, PI E. Kaiser, USC Linguistics
• 2021Verbal number. Syntax+, PI R. Pancheva, USC Linguistics
• 2021Objects and events. Meaning Lab, PI A. Wellwood, USC Philosophy & Linguistics
• 2019Graded plurals and indeterminacy. Meaning Lab, PI A. Wellwood, USC Philosophy & Linguistics
• 2017Individuating and comparing objects and events. Language Processing Lab, PI E. Kaiser, USC Linguistics
• 2016What do comparatives with plurals mean? NU Philosophy and Linguistics (PhLing) group
• 2016Comparatives and natural language ontology. Cognitive Systems Lab, NU Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• 2015Meaning, vision, and acquisition. Cognition and Language Lab, PI D. Gentner, NU Psychology
• 2015Meaning and vision. Visual Thinking Lab, PI S. Franconeri, NU Psychology
• 2015Meaning, vision, and acquisition. Project on Child Development, PI S. Waxman, NU Psychology
• 2015Measurement, abstraction, and natural language ontology. NU PhLing group

Advising

Post-doctoral scholars

• 2018–2019Dr. Angela Xiaoxue He, under NSF BCS-1829225, USC Philosophy & Linguistics

PhD students

• 2026–presentDissertation chair for Yaqing Hu, USC Linguistics
• 2026–presentDissertation chair for Peter O’Neill, USC Linguistics
• 2026–presentDissertation reader for Grace Coram (PI L. Rips), NU Psychology
• 2026–presentQualifying examiner for Anja Chivukula (Chair S. Clarke), USC Philosophy
• 2026–presentTeaching advisor for Aaron Suduiko, USC Philosophy
• 2026–presentQualifying examiner for Rodrigo Garro Rivera, USC Philosophy
• 2025–2026Qualifying examiner for Phoenix Wang (Chair S. Clarke), USC Philosophy
• 2025–2026Qualifying paper chair for Yaqing Hu, USC Linguistics
• 2025–2026Area exam cttee for Anja Chivukula (Phil Lg., Mind, Cog.Sci; Chair: S. Clarke), USC Philosophy
• 2025–2026Screening paper member for Peter O’Neill (Chair: A. Murphy), USC Linguistics
• 2025–2025Dissertation reader for Lai Xu (Chair R. Wilcox), USC Psychology
• 2024–2025Area exam chair for Phoenix Wang (Phil. Mind and Cog.Sci; w/ S. Clarke), USC Philosophy
• 2024–2025Screening paper chair for Peter O’Neill, USC Linguistics
• 2024–2025Screening paper chair for Zhendong Liu, USC Linguistics
• 2022–2024Dissertation reader for Jaime Castillo-Gamboa, USC Philosophy
• 2023–2024Second year review chair for Phoenix Wang, USC Philosophy
• 2021–2024Dissertation co-chair for Luis Miguel Toquero-Perez (w/ R. Pancheva), USC Linguistics
• 2022–2023Dissertation reader for Mahmoud Jalloh, USC Philosophy
• 2022–2023Qualifying paper co-chair for Luis Miguel Toquero-Perez (w/ R. Pancheva), USC Linguistics
• 2022–2023Area exam chair for Dominik Kobos (Language & Linguistics; w/ J. Hawthorne), USC Phil
• 2022–2023Area exam chair for Kayleigh Rodgers (Mind & CogSci; w/ K. Vihvelin), USC Philosophy
• 2022–2023Screening paper chair for Yaqing Hu, USC Linguistics
• 2022–2023Screening paper reader for Adam Woodnutt (Chair D. Rudin), USC Linguistics
• 2021–2023Dissertation reader for Rachel Neve-Midbar (Chair: D. St. John), USC English
• 2021–2022Area examiner for Megha Devraj (Mind & Language; Chair R. Jeshion), USC Philosophy
• 2021–2022Dissertation reader for Jesse Storbeck (Chair E. Kaiser), USC Linguistics
• 2020–2022Dissertation reader for Junhyo Lee (Chair M. Schroeder), USC Philosophy
• 2020–2022Qualifying examiner for Jaime Castillo Gamboa (Chair G. Uzquiano), USC Philosophy
• 2020–2022Qualifying examiner for Mahmoud Jalloh (Chair P. Williams), USC Philosophy
• 2020–2021Second year chair for Megha Devraj, USC Philosophy
• 2020–2021Screening paper reader for Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez (Chair R. Pancheva), USC Linguistics
• 2020–2021Qualifying examiner for Rachel Neve-Midbar (Chair D. St. John), USC English
• 2020–2021Qualifying paper reader for Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (Chairs: A. Li, A. Simpson), USC Linguistics
• 2015–2021Dissertation reader for Sarah Lee (Chair E. Kaiser), USC Linguistics
• 2019–2020Qualifying examiner for Jennifer Head (Chair R. Jeshion), USC Philosophy
• 2015–2021Dissertation chair for Daniel Tucker, NU Linguistics
• 2016–2021Dissertation reader for Peter Baumann (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2016–2021Dissertation reader for Kathleen Hall (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2017–2019Qualifying examiner for Junhyo Lee (Chairs B. Schein, S. Soames), USC Philosophy
• 2017–2018Qualifying examiner for Eleonore Neufeld (Chairs R. Jeshion, S. Soames), USC Philosophy
• 2017–2018Screening paper chair for Haley Farkas (Co-chair R. Pancheva), USC Linguistics
• 2016–2018Dissertation pré-rapporteur for Mora Maldonado (Chairs: B. Spector; E. Chemla), ENS Paris CogSci
• 2015–2020Dissertation reader for Daniel Skibra (Chair F. Cariani), NU Philosophy
• 2018–2020Dissertation reader for Eleonore Neufeld (Chair R. Jeshion), USC Philosophy
• 2014–2019Dissertation reader for Samantha Heidenreich (Chair J. Pierrehumbert), NU Linguistics
• 2016–2019Dissertation reader for Nayoun Kim (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2014–2018Dissertation reader for Robert Alex Schumacher (Chair J. Pierrehumbert), NU Linguistics
• 2016–2017Qualifying paper reader for Ethan Myers (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2016–2017Co-advisor for Haley Farkas Graduate Fellowship (Co-advisor S. Franconeri), NU CogSci
• 2014–2017Dissertation reader for David Potter (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2014–2015Qualifying paper reader for Nayoun Kim (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2014–2015Qualifying paper reader for Kathleen Hall (Chair M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics

MA students

• 2016–2017Chair for Haley Farkas MA thesis, NU Linguistics
• 2015–2016Reader for Scott Spicer MA thesis (Chair M. Yoshida) MA thesis, NU Linguistics

BA students

• 2017–presentPI/mentor for 33 undergraduate RAs in The Meaning Lab, USC
• 2026–2027PI/mentor for Landi Jiang, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF), USC
• 2025–2026PI/mentor for Landi Jiang, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF), USC
• 2024–2025PI/mentor for Landi Jiang, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF), USC
• 2023–2024PI/mentor for Devansh Bansal, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF), USC
• 2023–2024PI/mentor for Emily Givens & Theo Hockstader, Undergrad Res. Assoc. Program (URAP), USC
• 2022–2023Chair for Samuel Hessian honors thesis, USC Linguistics
• 2022–2023PI/mentor for Justin Sado, Viterbi Research Scholar Project, USC
• 2022–2023PI/mentor for Ashley Ka, Kelsey Christensen, & Max Meltzer, URAP, USC
• Summer 2022PI/mentor for Ashley Ka, Summer Humanities Undergraduate Research Experience, USC
• 2020–2021Reader for Carrie Watson (Chair E. Patall) honors thesis, USC Education & Psychology
• 2020–2021Mentor, 1 student each year, USC’s JumpStart Program, USC
• 2014–2017PI/mentor for 8 undergraduate students in the Child Language Development Lab, NU
• 2016–2017Reader for Jamie Klein (Chair K. Forbus) honors thesis, NU CogSci
• Summer 2017PI/mentor for Ché Anderson Justice, WCAS Summer Research Grant, NU
• Spring 2017PI/mentor for Theodore Huwe, WCAS Academic Year Grant, NU
• Summer 2015PI/mentor for Rebecca Way, WCAS Summer Research Grant, NU
• Summer 2015PI/mentor for Naomi Stevenson, WCAS Summer Research Grant, NU
• 2010–2012Mentor for 3 students in EEG studies of comparatives (PI C. Phillips), UMD
• 2010–2011Mentor for 3 students in acquisition of quantification (PI J. Lidz), UMD
• Summer 2009Mentor for 1 student in corpus studies of epistemic modality (PI V. Hacquard), UMD

High school students

• Summer 2023PI/mentor for 1 student from New Roads School, The Meaning Lab, USC
• 2022–2023PI/mentor for 1 student from Marlborough School, The Meaning Lab, USC

Teaching

Long format (University)

Key: ^* new preparation; G = graduate; UG = undergraduate.

• 2018 (×2), 2023The Logic of Events,* UG GESM 160g, USC (upcoming Spring 2027)
• 2026Concepts in Language and Thought* G Phil 562, USC
• 2024The Grammar of Events,* G Phil 565, USC
• 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024Foundations of Cognitive Science,* UG Phil 246, USC
• 2021Compositional Degree Semantics* (w R. Pancheva), G Phil 501, USC
• 2021Language, Thought, & Meaning Multiplicity* (w J. Goodman), G Phil 562, USC
• 2019Forms and Meaning,* G Phil 565, USC
• 2018Ontology and Logical Form* (w B. Schein), G Phil 599, USC
• 2018Graded Modality,* G Phil 501, USC
• 2017Semantic Analysis,* G Ling 470, NU
• 2016Experimental Semantics,* UG-G Ling 300, NU
• 2014, 2015, 2016Fundamentals of Meaning,* UG-G Ling 370, NU
• 2016Meaning,* UG Ling 270, NU
• 2015Child Language,* UG Ling 311, NU
• 2015Event Semantics,* G Ling 472, NU
• 2013Degree Semantics,* UG Ling 419, UMD

Short format (External)

• 2026The Grammar of Events (Wk1 thematic), Psychosemantics (Wk2 thematic)
  Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) School; Brno, Czech Republic
• 2023The Grammar of Events
  Dianoia Institute of Philosophy; Melbourne, Australia
• 2018Non-Canonical Comparatives: Syntax-Semantics and Psycholinguistics
  ESSLLI; co-taught with R. Pancheva (USC Linguistics); Sofia University, Bulgaria
• 2016Foundational & Empirical Questions in Degree Semantics with Modality as a Case Study
  NASSLLI; co-taught with F. Cariani (NU Philosophy), P. Santorio (Leeds Philosophy); Rutgers University

Guest lectures

• 2023Language and Cognition (G Ling 676; Prof. E. Kaiser), USC Linguistics
• 2019Advanced Psycholinguistics (G Ling 586; Prof. E. Kaiser), USC Linguistics
• 2018Gathering of Philosophers in Southern California (GPS), USC Philosophy
• 2016Proseminar in Cognitive Science (UG CogSci 366; Prof. D. Rapp), NU Cognitive Science
• 2015Seminar in Psycholinguistics (G Ling 5190; Prof. S. Barrios), Utah Linguistics
• 2015Proseminar in Cognitive Science (G CogSci 366; Prof. B. Pajak), NU Cognitive Science
• 2014Seminar in Experimental Syntax (G Ling 316; Prof. M. Yoshida), NU Linguistics
• 2014Seminar in Logical Form (G Phil 808; Prof. P. Pietroski), UMD Philosophy

Independent studies

• 2024Event semantics (G Ling 595; 3 students), USC Linguistics
• 2019Coercion (G Phil 590; 1 student), USC Philosophy
• 2019Polysemy & metaphor (G Phil 520; 1 student), USC Philosophy
• 2019Polysemy & metaphor (G Phil 520; 1 student), USC Philosophy
• 2017The semantics of plurals (G Ling 499; 1 student), NU Linguistics
• 2017Word learning (UG Ling 399; 1 student), NU Linguistics
• 2017The acquisition of comparatives (UG Ling 399; 1 student), NU Linguistics
• 2016Degree semantics (G Ling 499; 3 students), NU Linguistics
• 2016Argument structure (G Ling 499; 1 student), NU Linguistics
• 2015Negation (UG Ling 399; 1 student), NU Linguistics
• 2015The acquisition of quantification (UG Ling 399; 1 student), NU Linguistics

Service

To the profession (positions)

• 2026–presentBoard Member, Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) school
• 2024–presentMember, NASSLLI steering committee
• 2021–presentAssociate Editor for Journal of Semantics
• 2017–presentMember, Editorial Board of Snippets
• 2015–presentMember, Editorial Board of Semantics & Pragmatics
• 2023Panel Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund multi-site grant (FWF)
• 2022Director, North American Summer School (NASSLLI), USC Philosophy & Linguistics
• 2021–2023Area Editor for Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
• 2017–2021Editorial Board of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
• 2019–2020Chair, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) steering committee
• 2019Chair, Philosophy of Language in Lima Vol. II, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• 2016–2019Technology coordinator, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) steering committee
• 2015–2018Member, Committee on Scholarly Communication in Linguistics (LSA)
• 2018Member, planning Event perception and cognition, University of Latvia
• 2018Reviewer (external) of USC’s Cognitive Science Program
• 2017Chair, PhLing workshop: The nature, representation, and composition of states, NU
• 2016Organizer, Cognitive Science Society symposium: Concepts from event semantics in cognition, Philadelphia PA
• 2016Chair, Syntax and Semantics Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies meeting, NU
• 2015Co-organizer, Experimental Pragmatics meeting, UChicago & NU
• 2012Member, Mid-Atlantic Colloquium for Studies in Meaning organizing committee, UMD
• 2008Member, North American Phonology Conference: Phonology as symbolic computation organizing committee, Concordia

To the profession (refereeing)

• Linguistics & Philosophy (2013, 2014, 2017×2, 2018×2, 2026)
• Cognition (2026)
• Cambridge University Press (2026)
• Language and Linguistics Compass (2026)
• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
• Glossa (2015, 2021, 2026)
• Philosophical Studies (2025)
• West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Mind & Language (2019, 2024)
• Ergo (2024)
• Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Semantics & Pragmatics [prior to joining Editorial Board] (2022, 2023)
• Ontology and Semantics (OASIS)/Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) (2023)
• Frontiers in Neuroscience (2023)
• Boston University Conference on Child Language Development (BUCLD) (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)
• Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2017, 2022)
• Language (2022)
• Cognitive Science Society annual meeting (CSS) (2015, 2022)
• Synthese (2019, 2020, 2021)
• Journal of Semantics [prior to joining Editorial Board] (2016, 2017, 2018×2, 2019×2, 2020)
• North Eastern Linguistic Society annual meeting (NELS) (2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021)
• Linguistic Inquiry (2021)
• Glossa: Psycholinguistics (2021)
• International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (2021)
• Jezikoslovlje (2021)
• Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics (2021)
• Inquiry (2020)
• Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (2020)
• Journal of East Asian Linguistics (2020, 2019)
• NASSLLI & WeSSLLI (2020)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA) (2020)
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) (2020, 2019)
• Chapter of The Mental Lexicon, Oxford University Press (2019)
• Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) (2017)
• Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag) (2017)
• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2015)
• Journal of Linguistics (2015)
• EuroAsianPacific Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci) (2015)
• Language Acquisition (2014, 2015)
• Lingua (2013, 2015×2)
• Journal of Logic, Language and Information (2014)
• European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) (2013)
• Language Learning and Development (2012)
• Language and Cognitive Processes (2011)
• Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) (2011)

To the university

• 2024–presentStanding member, Dornsife College Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure (DCAPT), USC
• 2019–presentMember, Dornsife Cognitive Science steering committee, USC
• 2024Faculty consultant, Dornsife Communications deep-dive on Philosophy, USC
• 2024Member, Task force for the Center for Computational Language Sciences, USC
• 2024Co-organizer, Philosophy ×Engineering Retreat in AI Safety and Ethics (w/ Y. Gil, ISI), USC
• 2017–2018Member, Post-doctoral scholar selection committee, Humanities Society of Fellows, USC
• 2015–2017Member, Cognitive Science faculty advisory committee, NU
• 2015–2016Member, Cognitive Science undergraduate program review subcommittee, NU
• 2014Member, Service Award selection committee, College of Arts & Humanities, UMD

To the department

• 2027–presentMember, AI & Education committee, USC
• 2026–presentMember, Philosophy & Cognitive Science committee, USC
• 2019–2021, 2025–2026Member, Philosophy undergraduate committee, USC
• 2025Chair, Faculty Developmental Review Committee (S. Clarke), USC
• 2025Member, Faculty Developmental Review Committee (J. Monaghan), USC
• 2018–2026Chair, Philosophy & Cognitive Science committee, USC
• 2018–2025Co-Chair, Mind & Language in LA (MLLA) series, USC
• 2024–2025Chair, Artificial Intelligence Task Force, USC
• 2024–2025Member, Philosophy Faculty Load Assessment Committee (FLAC), USC
• 2024–2025Member, Linguistics teaching faculty promotion committee, USC Linguistics
• 2024Recommender, Linguistics teaching faculty promotion dossier, USC
• 2022–2024Faculty advisor, Philosophy Club (now: Philosophy Student Association), USC
• 2021–2024, 2019Chair, Philosophy website committee, USC
• 2022–2024Chair, Mudd Hall of Philosophy Task Force, USC
• 2022–2023Chair, Philosophy department search committee, USC
• 2021–2022Member, Philosophy department search committee, USC
• 2021–2022Chair, Society of Fellows postdoctoral recommendation committee, USC
• 2020–2021Member, Linguistics psycholinguistics search committee, USC
• 2018–2019Member, Philosophy peer teaching review committee, USC
• 2018–2019Member, Philosophy graduate recruitment committee, USC
• 2018–2019Member, Philosophy graduate admissions committee, USC
• 2018Recommender, Linguistics teaching faculty promotion dossier, USC
• 2017–2018Member, Linguistics semantics search committee, USC
• 2017–2018Member, Philosophy graduate committee, USC
• 2015–2017Chair, Linguistics social media committee, NU
• 2016–2017Chair, Cognitive Science social media committee, NU
• 2015–2017Chair, Linguistics colloquium committee, NU
• 2015–2017Chair, Linguistics research participant pool committee, NU
• 2015–2016Member, Linguistics phonology search committee, NU
• 2015–2016Chair, Linguistics website committee, NU
• 2013Member, PhLing workshop: Attitudes organizing committee, UMD
• 2012Public engagement, Neuro-, Cognitive, and Language Sciences @ Maryland Day, UMD
• 2012Chair, PhLing workshop: Events organizing committee, UMD
• 2011–2012Member, IGERT-Language Science outreach committee, UMD
• 2011–2012Member, Linguistics colloquium committee, UMD
• 2010–2012Founder & inaugural president, Philosophy and Linguistics Student Association, UMD
• 2010Member, Language Science Day planning committee, UMD
• 2010Member, Mayfest workshop: Bridging typology and acquisition organizing committee, UMD
• 2009Member, Mayfest workshop: Moving beyond truth conditions organizing committee, UMD
• 2007Organizer, LaTeX in Linguistics workshop, Concordia
• 2007Public engagement, Exposcience, Concordia
• 2007–2008Academics representative, Linguistics student association, Concordia
• 2007–2008Organizer, Linguistics colloquium committee, Concordia

References

• Chris Barker, Professor of Linguistics at New York University
• Michael Glanzberg, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
• Valentine Hacquard, Professor of Linguistics at UMD, College Park
• Jeffrey Lidz, Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at UMD, College Park
• Roumyana Pancheva, Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Paul Pietroski, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University
• Lance Rips, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern; PI of the Higher-Level Cognition Lab
• Alexander Williams, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMD, College Park
• Masaya Yoshida, Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)