2026

• Hill, A. What modality can mean: An experiment-based theory of overt causatives as circumstantial modals. 

[Dissertation]. 

2025

• Hill, A. What about about to? A proposal for proximate future reference. 

Proceedings of  the Forty-First West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [link]

• Lee, C. Y. and Hill, A. Children's acquisition of circumstantial modals: Do they know where necessity can come from? 

Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49). [link]

2024 

• Hill, A. The case for an anchored CAUSE. 

Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024 (AC2024).  [link]

• Hill, A. and Momma, S. Priming abstract modal representations in modals with causatives. 

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (CogSci46).  [link]