2018
"Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English? - A comparative diachronic study of Afrikaans and White South African English".
2016
"Cross-linguistic regularities in genitive variation and how they (might) affect contact varieties of English: The case of animacy splits in English and Afrikaans." Workshop on Probabilitistic variation across dialects and varieties, University of Leuven, 4 - 5 April 2016.
2010
“Probabilistic syntax: evidence from genitive variation, past and present”. Workshop Probabilistic Syntax: Phonetics, Diachrony, and Synchrony. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg. 21 – 24 March 2010.
2009
“Priming and language change”. Research colloquium, University of Hamburg, February 2009. (invited talk).
Guest lecture series at University of Perugia, post-graduate programme, 13 – 15 January 2009.
· “Gradience, variation and change in the English noun phrase”
· “Priming and language change”
· “Evolutionary approaches to language change”
“Evolutionary approaches to language change”. University of Florence, 16 January 2009. (invited talk)
2008
“How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa)”. Workshop Gradience, gradualness and emergence in grammaticalization at New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4, University of Leuven, July 2008. (invited talk).
“Converging evidence: on combining elicitation data with corpus data”.Symposium Approaches to Variation and Change, University of Bamberg, July 2008. (invited talk)
“Identifying noun modifiers in English”.Workshop History and Structure in the English Noun Phrase, University of Sheffield, April 2008 (invited talk).
“Priming and language change“.
· Iccling Stellenbosch, January 2008
· University of Groningen, April 2008 (invited talk)
“Determinants of grammatical variation in English”. Series of guest lectures for postgraduate programme Current tendencies in English studies and their applications. University of Santiago de Compostela. 19 – 27 November 2008.
2007
„Gradienzphänomene in der englischen Nominalphrase“. Guest lecture, University of Siegen, 19 December 2007.
„Emergingvariation: determiner genitives vs. noun modifiers in English“. Posterpresentation, Concept Types and Frames (CTF) conference, University of Duesseldorf, 20 – 22 August 2007.
"The nature of selection in evolutionary models of language change”. Workshop ‘The role of variation in evolution’, Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), 28 February - 2 March 2007, Siegen.
2006
“Language evolution and unidirectionality.” Leverhulme Workshop on Language Change/Evolution, King’s College, London, 15.-16. Dezember 2006. (with Gerhard Jäger)
„Gradienzphänomene in der Nominalphrasensyntax: s-Genitive versus nominaleModifizierer im Englischen“, IDS Mannheim, 16.-17.11.2006. (invited talk)
“Emerging variation: s-genitive constructions and noun+noun constructions in English
International Conference on English Historical Linguistics”. ICEHL, Bergamo, 21.-25.08.2006.
“Using the present to understand the past: priming and language change”. Plenary Lecture. 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Aalborg/ Dänemark, 19 - 22. June 2006
“Priming und Unidirektionalität im Sprachwandel“ (with Gerhard Jäger).Linguistic Colloquium, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 16 January 2006
2005
“On the track of noun+noun constructions in ModernEnglish”. Anglistentag, Bamberg, 19 – 21 September 2005.
“Priming as a driving force in grammaticalization: on the track of unidirectionality (withGerhard Jäger).
“Descriptive genitives in English”. International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Edinburgh, 23 – 26 June 2005.
„On the indeterminate nature of nominal determination“.(with Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm). Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS), Köln, 23 - 25 February 2005
2004
“Exploring constructions on the web: a case study”. Symposium Corpus Linguistics: Perspectives for the Future, Heidelberg, 21 – 23 October 2004. (Invited talk).
“Animacy and weight: two factors or one? Testing for factor correlation in grammatical variation”. Workshop Approaches to empirical syntax/WOTS-8
(8th Workshop on Optimality Theory), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 27 – 29 August, 2004. (invited talk)
“Comparing animacy vs. weight as determinants of grammatical variation in English”.
"Attributive genitives in English“. Research Colloquium, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, 5. Februar 2004.
2003
“Gradience and change in the English noun phrase - a first sketch...”.PIONIER Project, University of Nijmegen, 3 December 2003. (invited talk)
“On the squishy borderline between determination and
modification in English”.Symposium Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery, Helsinki, 14.-15. November 2003.
“Cumulativity in variation: testing different versions of Stochastic OT empirically” (with Gerhard Jäger). Seventh Workshop on Optimality Theoretic Syntax (WOTS7), University of Nijmegen, 27 – 28 October 2003.
“Comparing animacy vs. weight as determinants of grammatical variation in English”.LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of Oxford, 4 – 6 September 2003.
“Evolutionary OT and the emergence of possession splits.” (with Gerhard Jäger). Workshop Logic, neural networks, and Optimality Theory, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 23 – 25 July 2003. (invited talk)
“Word order variation in the noun phrase: the two genitives in English”.University of Siegen, 10 July 2003. (invited talk)
2002
“Functionalism meets OT-Syntax: English genitive variation as a case of structured and probabilistic optionality.” Sixth Workshop on Optimality Theoretic Syntax (WOTS6), University of Potsdam, 18 – 19 October 2002.
„Der englische s-Genitiv – ein Fall von Degrammatikalisierung?“
· Wuppertal Linguistic Forum, Wuppertal, May 2002
· Linguistic Colloquium University of Düsseldorf, 6 February 2002
“The English s-genitive – a case of degrammaticalization?”New Reflections on Grammaticalization1, Amsterdam, 4 – 6 April 2002.
2001
„Über die (mögliche) Analogie von biologischer und kultureller Evolution“.Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf, 4 November 2001.
2000
“Aspects of iconicity and economy in the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive in English”. International Symposium on Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English, University of Paderborn, 23 - 24. June 2000. (invited talk)
“From synchronic speech production to diachronic grammaticalization? TheEnglish possessive constructions.” 22th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), University of Marburg, 1 – 3 March 2000.
1999
“The English s-genitive: animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective.”14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 14), University of British Columbia/Canada, 9 – 13 August 1999.
„Salienzfaktoren für englische Genitivkonstruktionen“. Research Colloquium General Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf. 21 June 1999.
1998
“On the history of the s-genitive”.10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL), University of Manchester, 21 – 26 August 1998 (with Dieter Stein & Letizia Vezzosi)
“Was the s-genitive a traveller through England?” Harald Orton Centenary Conference, University of Leeds, 24 - 26. March 1998 (with Letizia Vezzosi)
1997
“Genitive constructions in early Modern English: new evidence from a corpus analysis”. Workshop on stability, variation and change in word-order patterns over time, 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (13 ICHL), Düsseldorf, 14 August 1997. (with Letizia Vezzosi).
"Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English? - A comparative diachronic study of Afrikaans and White South African English".
- International Congress of Linguistics (ICL) 20, 2- 6 July 2018, Cape Town. (with Johanita Kirsten)
- Tanagra International Workshop on Comparative Approaches to Grammatical Variation (TaCoVa), 9 & 10 July 2018, Tanagra, McGregor/Western Cape.
2016
"Cross-linguistic regularities in genitive variation and how they (might) affect contact varieties of English: The case of animacy splits in English and Afrikaans." Workshop on Probabilitistic variation across dialects and varieties, University of Leuven, 4 - 5 April 2016.
2010
“Probabilistic syntax: evidence from genitive variation, past and present”. Workshop Probabilistic Syntax: Phonetics, Diachrony, and Synchrony. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg. 21 – 24 March 2010.
2009
“Priming and language change”. Research colloquium, University of Hamburg, February 2009. (invited talk).
Guest lecture series at University of Perugia, post-graduate programme, 13 – 15 January 2009.
· “Gradience, variation and change in the English noun phrase”
· “Priming and language change”
· “Evolutionary approaches to language change”
“Evolutionary approaches to language change”. University of Florence, 16 January 2009. (invited talk)
2008
“How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa)”. Workshop Gradience, gradualness and emergence in grammaticalization at New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4, University of Leuven, July 2008. (invited talk).
“Converging evidence: on combining elicitation data with corpus data”.Symposium Approaches to Variation and Change, University of Bamberg, July 2008. (invited talk)
“Identifying noun modifiers in English”.Workshop History and Structure in the English Noun Phrase, University of Sheffield, April 2008 (invited talk).
“Priming and language change“.
· Iccling Stellenbosch, January 2008
· University of Groningen, April 2008 (invited talk)
“Determinants of grammatical variation in English”. Series of guest lectures for postgraduate programme Current tendencies in English studies and their applications. University of Santiago de Compostela. 19 – 27 November 2008.
2007
„Gradienzphänomene in der englischen Nominalphrase“. Guest lecture, University of Siegen, 19 December 2007.
„Emergingvariation: determiner genitives vs. noun modifiers in English“. Posterpresentation, Concept Types and Frames (CTF) conference, University of Duesseldorf, 20 – 22 August 2007.
"The nature of selection in evolutionary models of language change”. Workshop ‘The role of variation in evolution’, Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), 28 February - 2 March 2007, Siegen.
2006
“Language evolution and unidirectionality.” Leverhulme Workshop on Language Change/Evolution, King’s College, London, 15.-16. Dezember 2006. (with Gerhard Jäger)
„Gradienzphänomene in der Nominalphrasensyntax: s-Genitive versus nominaleModifizierer im Englischen“, IDS Mannheim, 16.-17.11.2006. (invited talk)
“Emerging variation: s-genitive constructions and noun+noun constructions in English
International Conference on English Historical Linguistics”. ICEHL, Bergamo, 21.-25.08.2006.
“Using the present to understand the past: priming and language change”. Plenary Lecture. 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Aalborg/ Dänemark, 19 - 22. June 2006
“Priming und Unidirektionalität im Sprachwandel“ (with Gerhard Jäger).Linguistic Colloquium, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 16 January 2006
2005
“On the track of noun+noun constructions in ModernEnglish”. Anglistentag, Bamberg, 19 – 21 September 2005.
“Priming as a driving force in grammaticalization: on the track of unidirectionality (withGerhard Jäger).
- New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Santiago de
Compostela, 17 - 20. July 2005. - Linguistic Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, 14 November 2005. (invited talk)
“Descriptive genitives in English”. International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Edinburgh, 23 – 26 June 2005.
„On the indeterminate nature of nominal determination“.(with Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm). Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS), Köln, 23 - 25 February 2005
2004
“Exploring constructions on the web: a case study”. Symposium Corpus Linguistics: Perspectives for the Future, Heidelberg, 21 – 23 October 2004. (Invited talk).
“Animacy and weight: two factors or one? Testing for factor correlation in grammatical variation”. Workshop Approaches to empirical syntax/WOTS-8
(8th Workshop on Optimality Theory), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 27 – 29 August, 2004. (invited talk)
“Comparing animacy vs. weight as determinants of grammatical variation in English”.
- University of Perugia, February 11, 2004 (invited talk).
- Stanford University, Stanford Syntax Workshop, May 25, 2004 (invited talk)
"Attributive genitives in English“. Research Colloquium, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, 5. Februar 2004.
2003
“Gradience and change in the English noun phrase - a first sketch...”.PIONIER Project, University of Nijmegen, 3 December 2003. (invited talk)
“On the squishy borderline between determination and
modification in English”.Symposium Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery, Helsinki, 14.-15. November 2003.
“Cumulativity in variation: testing different versions of Stochastic OT empirically” (with Gerhard Jäger). Seventh Workshop on Optimality Theoretic Syntax (WOTS7), University of Nijmegen, 27 – 28 October 2003.
“Comparing animacy vs. weight as determinants of grammatical variation in English”.LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of Oxford, 4 – 6 September 2003.
“Evolutionary OT and the emergence of possession splits.” (with Gerhard Jäger). Workshop Logic, neural networks, and Optimality Theory, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 23 – 25 July 2003. (invited talk)
“Word order variation in the noun phrase: the two genitives in English”.University of Siegen, 10 July 2003. (invited talk)
2002
“Functionalism meets OT-Syntax: English genitive variation as a case of structured and probabilistic optionality.” Sixth Workshop on Optimality Theoretic Syntax (WOTS6), University of Potsdam, 18 – 19 October 2002.
„Der englische s-Genitiv – ein Fall von Degrammatikalisierung?“
· Wuppertal Linguistic Forum, Wuppertal, May 2002
· Linguistic Colloquium University of Düsseldorf, 6 February 2002
“The English s-genitive – a case of degrammaticalization?”New Reflections on Grammaticalization1, Amsterdam, 4 – 6 April 2002.
2001
„Über die (mögliche) Analogie von biologischer und kultureller Evolution“.Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf, 4 November 2001.
2000
“Aspects of iconicity and economy in the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive in English”. International Symposium on Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English, University of Paderborn, 23 - 24. June 2000. (invited talk)
“From synchronic speech production to diachronic grammaticalization? TheEnglish possessive constructions.” 22th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), University of Marburg, 1 – 3 March 2000.
1999
“The English s-genitive: animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective.”14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 14), University of British Columbia/Canada, 9 – 13 August 1999.
„Salienzfaktoren für englische Genitivkonstruktionen“. Research Colloquium General Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf. 21 June 1999.
1998
“On the history of the s-genitive”.10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL), University of Manchester, 21 – 26 August 1998 (with Dieter Stein & Letizia Vezzosi)
“Was the s-genitive a traveller through England?” Harald Orton Centenary Conference, University of Leeds, 24 - 26. March 1998 (with Letizia Vezzosi)
1997
“Genitive constructions in early Modern English: new evidence from a corpus analysis”. Workshop on stability, variation and change in word-order patterns over time, 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (13 ICHL), Düsseldorf, 14 August 1997. (with Letizia Vezzosi).