Talks

This list does not include talks given in the research seminars at FU Berlin and FSU Jena

• 30.09.2010: "Nominal conversions of preposition-reciprocal compounds: Motivating an English-German contrast in word-formation" 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC6), Freie Universität Berlin, September 30-October 2, 2010.
• 17.07.2009: "The system of English presentational constructions reconsidered" The International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE) 3, University of London, July 15-17, 2009.
• 24.02.2009: "Präsentativa in europäischen Sprachen" 18. Internationale Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 24.2.-26.2.2009. (with Volker Gast)
• 09.10.2008: "Comparing constraints on passivization in English and German: the case of 'symmetric' verbs" First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, Universität Freiburg, October 8-11 2008.
• 01.10.2008: "Presentational sentences in English" Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
• 19.09.2008: "Introducing discourse referents in Germanic and Romance -- presentationals in comparative perspective" Languages in Contrast -- Grammar, Translation, Corpora, Università di Bologna, September 17-20 2008. (with Volker Gast)
• 08.08.2008: "The event structure of symmetric predicates" 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, University of Brighton, 8 August 2008.
• 07.07.2008: "Symmetric verbs and constraints on passivization -- an English-German comparison" 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, University of Leuven (Belgium), July 7-9, 2008.
• 29.05.2008: "Competing strategies for the expression of reciprocity in English" Linguistisches Oberseminar, Institut für Anglistik, Universität Bamberg.
• 27.02.2008: "How symmetric are 'symmetric verbs'?" 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Bamberg, 27-29 February 2008.
• 02.12.2007: "Gender resolution in bipartite reciprocal markers" Reciprocals across languages, Freie Universität Berlin/Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS). Berlin, 30 November-2 December 2007. (with Ekaterini Stathi)
• 21.04.2007: "The aim is to analyze NP: the function of prefabricated chunks in academic texts" UWM Linguistics Symposium on Formulaic Language, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. (with Elma Kerz)
• 05.10.2006: "Symmetric verbs and argument structure" Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Munich, 5-7 October 2006
• 06.04.2006: “English verbs and constructions: two case studies and some implications for a constructionist approach to grammatical structure" Directions in English Language Studies (DELS), University of Manchester, 06.-08.04.2006. (with Elma Kerz)
• 11.03.2006: “Revisiting the relationship between verbs and nominal reciprocals” Mini-Workshop on the Typology of Reciprocals, Freie Universität Berlin. (with Ekaterini Stathi)
• 11.02.2005: “The development of English each other – grammaticalization, lexicalization, or both?” From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perspectives on Grammaticalization (FITIGRA), University of Leuven.
• 01.10.2004: “Why are there no reciprocal uses of German sich in PPs?” Workshop on Reciprocity and Reflexivity: Description, Typology and Theory, FU Berlin, October 2-4, 2004. (with Volker Gast)
• 02.07.2004: “Zur Entwicklung der Reziprokkonstruktionen in den germanischen und romanischen Sprachen.“ Studientag ‘Das Wo und Wann des Sprachwandels’, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Europäische Sprachen: Strukturen – Entwicklung – Vergleich (FU Berlin). (with Matthias Hüning and Elisabeth Stark)
• 05.02.2004: “Typologie du réciproque et constructions réciproques dans les langues créoles ”. Grammaire Créoles et Grammaire Comparative, Université Paris-8 (with Ekkehard König)