Poster Presentations.
Donovan, Michael. Question Imperatives. LSA 2024.

Donovan, Michael. Question Imperatives in Japanese. TEAL 16. May 2023.

Donovan, Michael. Atypical Ellipsis Patterns in Imperative Fragments. WCCFL 38. March 2020.

Donovan, Michael. Pronouncing Command Fragments in a Theory of Clause Types. LSA 2020.

Donovan, Michael and Bilge Palaz. Politeness is a Presupposition on Pronouns, not Operator-Variable Agreement. LSA 2020.

Donovan, Michael. Goal Oriented Location Commands. CLS 55. May 2019.

Donovan, Michael. Goal Oriented Location Commands. MACSIM 9. April 2019.

Donovan, Michael. Goal Oriented Location Commands. PLC 43. March 2019.

Donovan, Michael and Nematova, Shakhlo. The Polarity Particle in Uzbek: ”-mi” shifting; a split aspect account. LSA 2018.

Talks.
Donovan, Michael and Yuki Seo. Differential Object Marking in Burmese Ditransitives: Marking Two Objects at the Same Time. LSA 2027.

Donovan, Michael. Why are Imperative Fragments Limited in their Possible Speech Acts? PLC 50. March 2026. Slides

Donovan, Michael. Why are Imperative Fragments Limited in their Possible Speech Acts? LSA 2026.

Donovan, Michael and Shakhlo Nematova. What counts as second-to-last? The case of the Uzbek question particle. LSA 2019.

Donovan, Michael and Nematova, Shakhlo. The Polarity Particle in Uzbek: ”-mi” shifting; a split aspect account. LSA 2018.

Donovan, Michael. No Verbs Allowed! An analysis of General Prohibition in English. NCI Berlin. 2018.

Donovan, Michael. The Deletion of Allow-Predicates by an Imperative Modal in English. PLC 41. March 2017.

Donovan, Michael. Interaction of Negation and Singular/Plural Number Morphology in English. Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference. University of Delaware. March 2017.

Donovan, Michael and Ryan Rhodes. Using transducers to construct recursive minimalist trees from linear word order. Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference. University of Delaware. March 2016.

Donovan, Michael. General Prohibition. Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference. University of Delaware. March 2016.

Invited Talks.
Sept 2020 On General Prohibition. University of Pennsylvania Syntax Group.

Oct 2020 Verbless Imperatives. Yale University Syntax Group. Slides