*= invited/expenses paid
The role of French in the development of the English (long) passive. Talk presented at the Sentence Grammar/Discourse Grammar workshop, University of Göttingen, 23 May 2025.
(With Lena Kaltenbach) Per syntax ad semantics: The benefits of enriching the parsed corpora of historical English with lexical semantic annotation. Talk presented at the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English Conference (ICAME), University of Vilnius, 20 June 2025.
Passive constructions as a gateway to state incorporation in Old French and Middle English contact. University of Helsinki, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2024)
*The results of contact: tracing changes in resultativity encoding in the history of English in contact with Old French. University of Pennsylvania, ILST Seminar.
(with Lena Kaltenbach & Carola Trips) The results of contact: tracing changes in resultativity encoding in Middle and early Modern English in contact with Old French. Université Paris Cité, Diachronic Generative Syntax 24 (DiGS24).
(with Carola Trips) Determining the Impact of Verbs Copied from Old French: Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Verbal Prefixes and Verb Particle Combinations in Middle English. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historical English Word-Formation Symposium.
(with Carola Trips) Determining the Impact of Verbs Copied from Old French: Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Verbal Prefixes and Verb Particle Combinations in Middle English. Universiteit Leiden, 44th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries.
*Information Structure Triggers for Word Order Variation and Change: The OV/VO Alternation in the West Germanic Languages. Universität Tübingen, Discourse Grammar and Sentence Grammar 5.
*(With Ans van Kemenade) Competing micro-cues: variation, change, and loss of V2 in Middle and early Modern English. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Bucharest.
* Information Structure triggers for word order variation and change: the OV/VO alternation in the West-Germanic languages. Universität Mannheim, SILPAC colloquium.
(With Gert-Jan Schoenmakers) Syntax as a marker of information structure in Dutch: the relation between local scrambling and the loss of VO. Adam Mickiewicz University, 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (online).
Information Structure and OV-VO Variation in West-Germanic: A Comparative Perspective. University of Konstanz, DIGS22 (online).
(With Gert-Jan Schoenmakers) Syntax as a marker of information structure in Dutch: the relation between local scrambling and the loss of VO. University of Wisconsin-Madison, GLAC27 (online).
*(With Ans van Kemenade) Towards a formalisation of the syntax-pragmatics interface. University of Oslo, Discourse Grammar and Sentence Grammar 4.
Givenness as a trigger for OV word order: Old English and Old Saxon compared. Australian National University, ICHL24.
Information Structure and OV-VO variation in West-Germanic: A comparative perspective. University of Amsterdam, Germanic Sandwich.
Latin influence on OV/VO variation in Old English translations. University of Edinburgh, SHES16.
Givenness as a trigger for OV word order: Information structure in the history of English. Institute of English Studies, London, ISLE5.
*(With Chiara de Bastiani) Verb placement and discourse relations in OE subclauses: VAux as a marker of subordination. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Discourse Grammar and Sentence Grammar 3.
(With Ans van Kemenade) Change and continuity in English OV/VO variation: Information structure as a disappearing trigger for OV. University of Edinburgh, ICEHL20.
(With Ans van Kemenade) Information-structure driven word order variation in the history of English: a phase-based approach. University of York, DIGS20.
Information structure and OV/VO variation in the history of English. University of Leiden, 39th Symposium on Old English, Middle English, Historical Linguistics.
(With Ans van Kemenade) The determinants of OV and VO word order in Old English and Middle Dutch. Workshop Broader perspectives on the VP. Bielefeld, 28-29 April 2017
*(With Ans van Kemenade) Information-structure driven word order variation in OE: A phase-based approach. Radboud University Nijmegen, Discourse Grammar and Sentence Grammar 2.
The influence of information structure on OV/VO variation in Old English. University of Amsterdam, SHES15.
*(With Ans van Kemenade) Issues in OV/VO variation and change: early English and Middle Dutch. Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Discourse Grammar and Sentence Grammar.
The influence of givenness of OV word order in OE and eME. Universität Potsdam. SUM-UP16 Summer School