Robert Henderson

Interests

Teaching

Formal Semantics, Logic, Field Methods, Native American Languages

Research

Formal Semantics, Logic, Prosody / Prosodic Morphology, Mayan Languages

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Henderson, R. (2021). Dependent Numerals in Kaqchikel. In The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number.
• Henderson, R. (2017). Pluractionality in Mayan. In The Mayan Languages. Routledge.

Journals/Publications

• Champollion, L., Bumford, D., & Henderson, R. (2018). Donkeys under discussion. Semantics & Pragmatics.
• Gutzmann, D., & Henderson, R. (2018). Expressive updates, much?. Language.
• Henderson, R. (2018). The roots of measurement. Glossa.
• Bennett, R., Coon, J., & Henderson, R. (2016). Introduction to Mayan Linguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10(10), 455–468.
• Henderson, R. (2016). Mayan Semantics. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10(10), 551--588.
• Henderson, R. (2016). Swarms: Spatiotemporal Grouping Across Domains. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1-43. doi:10.1007/s11049-016-9334-z

Proceedings Publications

• Henderson, R., & Tyers, F. (2021). A corpus of K’iche’ annotated for morphosyntactic structure. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP).
• Henderson, R., & McCready, E. (2020). Social Meaning in Repeated Interactions. In Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference.
• Henderson, R., & McCready, E. (2020). Towards functional, agent-based models of dogwhistle communication. In Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference.
• Henderson, R. (2019, December). Dogwhistles, Trust, and Ideology. In Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2019.
• Henderson, R., & McCready, E. (2018, Fall). How dogwhistles work. In Logical and Engineering in Natural Language Semantics.
• Henderson, R. (2016, Fall). A demonstration-based account of (pluractional) ideophones. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 26.
• Henderson, R., & Gutzmann, D. (2015, Fall). Expressive, much?. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung.

Presentations

• Henderson, R. (2021). A corpus of K’iche’ annotated for morphosyntactic structure. First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). Mexico City.
• Henderson, R. (2021). Dependent Pluractionality. Georgetown University Colloquium. Washington, D.C..
• Henderson, R. (2021). Dogwhistles in semantic and pragmatic theory. University of Cologne Linguistics Colloquium. Cologne.
• Henderson, R. (2021). Elisión de vocales en Uspanteko como traslape de gestos articulatorios. Form, and Analysis in Mayan Languages 6. UNAM / CIMSUR Chiapas.
• Henderson, R. (2021). Keynote Presentation: Flexión cero en el uspanteko. Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 6.
• Henderson, R. (2021). NLP for social scientists. Winter School in Computational Social Science.
• Henderson, R. (2021). Signaling without saying—the semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles. PENN Integrated Language Sciences and Technology Seminar. Philadelphia.
• Henderson, R. (2021). Signaling without saying—the semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles. Queen Mary University London Colloquium. London.
• Henderson, R. (2021). Signaling without saying—the semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles. Stanford University Cognition & Language Workshop. Palo Alto.
• Henderson, R., Bennett, R., & Harvey, M. (2021). Vowel Deletion as Gestural Overlap in Uspanteko. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Online.
• Henderson, R., Bennett, R., & Harvey, M. (2021). Vowel Deletion as Gestural Overlap in Uspanteko. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona.
• Henderson, R., Pasquereau, J., & Powell, J. W. (2021). Dependent Pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman). Sinn und Bedeutung 26. Cologne.
• Henderson, R., Pasquereau, J., & Powell, J. W. (2021). Dependent Pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman). West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona.
• Henderson, R. (2020). Dogwhistles in semantic and pragmatic theory. ZAS Semantics Circle. Berlin.
• Henderson, R. (2020). Pluractionality and distributivity on the edge of Mesoamerica. Workshop on Mesoamerican Languages. Santa Cruz.
• Henderson, R., & Ngui, J. G. (2020). Proposing to ignore discourse updates in Colloquial Singaporean English (CSE). 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Gramma. Seoul.
• Henderson, R., & Ngui, J. G. (2020). Proposing to ignore discourse updates in Singaporean English. Chicago Linguistics Society 56. University of Chicago.
• Henderson, R. (2019, Fall). The semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles.. Invited Talk at the New York Philosophy of Language Meetup. New York University.
• Henderson, R. (2019, January). Keynote Presenation: Cross-domain parallels in nominal and verbal plural reference. LSA Annual Meeting.
• Henderson, R. (2019, Spring). Donkeys under Discussion. Invited Talk at Bekki NLP Lab Ochanomizu University.
• Henderson, R. (2019, Spring). Expressive updates, much?!. Invited talk at Keio University Semantics Research Group.
• Henderson, R. (2019, Spring). The semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles.. Hong Kong University Colloquium.
• Henderson, R. (2017, Fall). Phrase-final morphology and covert relativization in Tz'utujil. Congreso de Idiomas Indigenas de las Americas.
• Henderson, R., & McCready, E. (2017, Spring). Dogwhistles and the At-Issue / Not-at-Issue distinction. Keynote at DGfS Workshop on Secondary Meaning.
• Henderson, R. (2016, Fall). Pluractional Demonstrations. Semantics and Linguistic Theory.
• Henderson, R. (2016, Fall). Pluractional Demonstrations. University of Tromso Linguistics Colloquium.
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  Invited colloquium talk
• Henderson, R. (2016, Spring). Pluractional demonstrations. New York University Colloquium.
• Henderson, R. (2016, Spring). Pluractional ideophones in Tsetal and Upper Necaxa Totonac. Brown University Linguistics / Anthroplogy Latin American Languages Speaker Series.
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  Invited colloquium-type talk
• Henderson, R. (2016, Spring). Variation in dependent indefinites. Journées Co-Distributivité 2016.
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  Invited Workshop Keynote
• Henderson, R. (2015, Fall). Expressive, much?. Kyoto University, CREST International Workshop on Formal and Computational Semantics.
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  Invited Workshop Talk
• Henderson, R. (2015, Fall). Pluractional demonstrations. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 12.
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  Invited Conference Keynote
• Henderson, R., & Coon, J. (2015, Fall). When adverbs embed clauses: An explanation for variability in Kaqchikel agent focus. 46th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.

Poster Presentations

• Henderson, R., Tyers, F., & Irrizary, L. (2021). Un corpus sintáctico del idioma uspanteko. Form, and Analysis in Mayan Languages 6. CIMSUR / UNAM Chiapas.