BROAD
Semantics, semantic typology, psycholinguistics, field linguistics, Cariban, Sino-Tibetan and Eskimo-Aleut languages
NARROW
Anaphoricity, bridging, classifiers, (in)definiteness, demonstratives, referring expressions, Macuxi, Mandarin, Inuttitut
2025. Antono, Gregory, Ashley Yim, Craig Chambers and Daphna Heller. Numbers and counting: Silent gesture and artificial language learning do not always reflect typological patterns. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47). (Link)
2023. Antono, Gregory, Francisco França Miguel Makusi, Isabella Coutinho Costa and Suzi Lima. Pluractionality of events in Macuxi: a morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis. Languages 8(4). 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040225
2022. Antono, Gregory. Meh contributes VERUM: A study of biased questions in colloquial Singapore English. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 7(1). 5238. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5238
2021. Guillaume Thomas, Gregory Antono, Angelika Kiss, Laurestine Bradford, Darragh Winkelman. Switch reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá narratives. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0028
2020. Antono, Gregory. Expressing a multiplicity of events in Macuxi. Proceedings of the 2020 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Western University.
2023. Antono, Gregory, Jessica Coon, Suzi Lima and Claudia Raihert (Eds.). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 46: Peer-reviewed proceedings of the First Toronto-Montreal Bantu Colloquium (Ba-TOM1). University of Toronto. https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/issue/view/2634
2022. Antono, Gregory, Suzi Lima, Anabela Rato, Nadia Takhtaganova, and Pocholo Umbal (Eds.). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 44: Proceedings of the Third Experimental Portuguese Linguistics Workshop. University of Toronto. https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/issue/view/2507
Please see my CV for a full list of presentations.
Upcoming
Antono, Gregory, Susana Bejar and Daphna Heller. Exophoric Demonstratives in Labrador Inuttitut. Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas-Triple-A conference. University of British Columbia. May 2026.
Antono, Gregory, Susana Bejar and Daphna Heller. Eliciting Demonstratives in Context: A Real-World Task for Labrador Inuttitut. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. June 2026.
Antono, Gregory, Yibin Wang and Daphna Heller. Tracking (in)definiteness in a language without determiners: Revisiting the Tangram task. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. June 2026.
2025
Bejar, Susana, Laura Griffin, Suzanna Jararuse, Christine Nochasak, Gregory Antono, Angelika Kiss, Lucy Meanwell, and Calvin Quick. Inuttitut tusannitutsiat: Tools for resource creation and dissemination of spoken language. Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA) Annual Conference. McGill University. June 3-5, 2025.
Kiss, Angelika, Gregory Antono, Laura Griffin, Christine Nochasak, Calvin Quick, and Susana Bejar. Declarative questions in Labrador Inuttitut. Polar Question Form(s) Across Languages. Talk. University of Amsterdam. April 24-25, 2025.
Laura Griffin, Suzanna Jararuse, Christine Nochasak, Susana Bejar, Alana Johns, Greg Antono, Angelika Kiss, Lucy Meanwell, Calvin Quick. Towards a community-centered Labrador Inuttitut corpus: Capacity Building with ELAN. 9th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Talk. 6-8 March 2025.
Kiss, Angelika, Gregory Antono, Laura Griffin, Christine Nochasak, Calvin Quick, and Susana Bejar. Declarative questions in Labrador Inuttitut. Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) 2025 Meeting (Virtual). Talk. 24-26 January 2025.
2024
Avery Ozburn, Jeffrey Lamontagne and Greg Antono. The Language Profiles Project for linguistics pedagogy. Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA) Annual Conference. Carlton University. Talk. 17-19 June 2024.
Liam McFadden, Samuel Akinbo, Yiting Deng, Gregory Antono and Avery Ozburn. Mapping African languages. 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. McGill University. 2-4 May 2024.
2023
Antono, Gregory, Francisco França Miguel and Isabella Coutinho Costa. Mapping topological relations in Macuxi. AMAZONICAS VIIII (9th International Colloquium on the Structure of Amazonian Languages). Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Talk. 5-9 June 2023.
Antono, Gregory. Traversing through space in Macuxi (Carib). Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA) Annual Conference. York University. Talk. 31 May - 2 June 2023.
Antono, Gregory, Francisco França Miguel and Isabella Coutinho Costa. A taxonomy of spatial postpositions in Macuxi (Carib). 25th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL). University of California, Santa Barbara. Talk. 14-15th April 2023.
2022
Antono, Gregory, Ashley Yim, Daphna Heller and Craig Chambers. Can cognitive biases yield ordering patterns within the noun phrase? Evidence from silent gesture and artificial language learning. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) Workshop 2022. University of Zurich. 12-13 September 2022.
2021
Thomas, Guillaume, Gregory Antono, Angelika Kiss, Laurestine Bradford, Darragh Winkelman. Switch Reference and Referential Choice in Mbyá Guaraní. AMAZONICAS VIII (8th International Colloquium on the Structure of Amazonian Languages). Nucleo Takinahakỹ of the University of Goias. Virtual. 31 May 2021.
2020
Antono, Gregory. Expressing a multiplicity of events in Macuxi. Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference. Western University. 1 June 2020. Virtual.
Antono, Gregory. Reduplication and the pîtî suffix in Macuxi. Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 11. Virtual. Mexico City. 4-7 August 2020.
2026
Antono, Gregory, Yibin Wang and Daphna Heller. Repurposing the Tangram task to study (in)definiteness in the absence of definites. 39th annual Human Sentence Processing conference. Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. 26-29 March 2026.
2025
Antono, Gregory and Daphna Heller. Reference to Tangrams as a window into (in)definiteness. 11th Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG) conference. University of Cambridge, 17-19 September, 2025.
Antono, Gregory, Ashley Yim, Daphna Heller and Craig Chambers. Numbers and counting: Silent gesture and artificial language learning do not always reflect typological patterns. Cognitive Science Society conference. San Francisco, July 30 - Aug 2, 2025.
Antono, Gregory and Daphna Heller. Presence and form of modification affect demonstrative use in Mandarin. 38th Annual Human Sentence Processing conference. University of Maryland, College Park, 27-29 March 2025.
2024
Avery Ozburn, Gregory Antono and Saba Mirabolghasemi. Community- and context-based approaches to African linguistics: the Language Profiles Project. 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. McGill University. 2-4 May 2024.
2023
Antono, Gregory, Francisco França Miguel and Isabella Coutinho Costa. The expression of space in Macuxi (Carib). 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 2023 Conference. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Poster presentation. 29 August - 1 September 2023.
2022
Antono, Gregory, Daphna Heller and Craig Chambers. Linearizing classifiers, numerals, and nouns in the noun phrase. Does artificial language learning reflect cognitive biases? Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022. Poster presentation. University of York, UK. 7-9 September 2022.
Antono, Gregory, Daphna Heller and Craig Chambers. Ordering patterns in the noun phrase when counting: Insights from an artificial language learning experiment. 32nd Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) Annual meeting. Poster presentation. Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s Universities. 18-20 July 2022.
Antono, Gregory, Ashley Yim, Daphna Heller and Craig Chambers. Do cognitive biases shape patterns in the world's languages? Insights from a silent gesture task. 32nd Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) Annual meeting. Poster presentation. Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s Universities. 18-20 July 2022.
Antono, Gregory. Meh contributes VERUM: A study of biased questions in Colloquial Singapore English. Linguistic Society of America 2022 Meeting. Poster presentation. Washington DC. 6-9 January 2022. Virtual.
2019
Antono, Gregory. Más allá del supermercado: Language Attitudes of Chinese-Argentine Youth. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2019 Poster session. University of California (Davis). 14 July 2019.