conference presentations

1.

Modal verb to auxiliary and back: Going by implication.
[Various occasions, 1990’s.]

2.

Apologie für die niedere Sinnlichkeit.
[Philosophy Dept., Universität Konstanz, Jan 1997.]

3.

Similitudo und Affinitas.
[Gyarmathi Fest, Göttingen, Nov 1999.]

4.

Typology, diachrony, and the history of English.
[ICEHL XI, Santiago de Compostela, Sept 2000.]

5.

Becoming a verb, from adpositions and such: The easy way and the harder ways. [Parts of speech in and across languages, Helsinki, Aug 2000;
ICHL, Melbourne, Aug 2001.]

6.

Questions about "Finiteness".
[Finiteness Conference, Universität Konstanz, May 2001.]

7.

The basic questions of inflection classes, with hints towards answers to some.
[DGfS 24, AG 11: Merkmalsverteilung in der NP, Mannheim, Feb 2002.]

8.

Defectivation and paradigm structure: Can a number be a gender?
[Inflectional paradigms, IDS Mannheim, May 2003.]

9.

How to disclaim precision about numbers.
[Numerals, Leipzig, March 2004.]

10.

Words (?) without vowel in Upper High German dialects.
[With Astrid Kraehenmann. Word domains, Leipzig, Apr 2004; Weak words: Their origins and progress, Schloss Freudental, Apr 2005; mfm 14, Manchester, May 2006.]

11.

Better typology.
[Typology in American linguistics: An appraisal of the field, LSA Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, Jan 2005.]

12.

Competing motivations for gender distinctions relative to numbers in pronominal paradigms: Markedness, conflict resolution, economy, inertia — and ways of knowing: Which will win?
[DGfS 27, AG 4: Auf alles gefasst sein, Köln, Feb 2005, and earlier occasions.]

13.

Canonical and non-canonical order in noun phrases (and where is information structure?)
[DP-internal information structure, Utrecht, Nov 2006.]

14.

To refer to a singular addressee with a pronoun of 3rd person plural in order to distance: Rare by chance or necessity?
[RARA, Leipzig, March 2006.]

15.

Progress in typology: The first 369 years, and those yet to look forward to.
[With more than chance frequency: Forty years of universals of language, Bologna, Jan 2007.]

16.

Contrastive analysis revived as (i) typology with self-imposed limits or (ii) diachrony of minimal steps.
[Contrastive analysis workshop, FU Berlin, June 2007.]

17.

How crosslinguistically variable is the grammar and lexicon of naming?
[Nouns cross-linguistically, Campobasso, Molise, Italy, June 2007.]

18.

14 juillet, rien: Some rather dissimilar grammatical variations on the theme of ‘and such’.
[Lahiri Birthday Workshop, Gottlieben, July 14, 2007.]

19.

Dual laws.
[Trans/Cis-Alpine Typology Meeting, Bern, Jan 2009.]

20.

Morphological cumulation through phonological fusion? PERSON separate from NUMBER.
[With Thomas Mayer, Tikaram Poudel, & Michael Spagnol. ALT 8, Berkeley, CA, July 2009.]

21.

Direction in derivation.
[SNS Pisa, Nov 2008; Universals in word formation, Košice, Slovakia, Aug 2009.]

22.

Phonological FUSION is not the only, and probably not even the main, source of morphological CUMULATION.
[With Thomas Mayer & Tikaram Poudel. MMM 7, Lefkosia, Cyprus, Sep 2009.]

23.

Relational marking through CASE: Typological parameters.
[Databases and typology, Nordling PhD course, Tartu, Sep 2009;
Essex–JNU Delhi–Konstanz Workshop on Case and Elicitation Techniques, Colchester, 13-14 June 2011.]

24.

Temperature talk: The basics revisited.
[Temperature in language and cognition, Stockholm, March 2010.]

25.

Patterns of suppletion and the temporal nature of constraints on linguistic diversity.
[Oxford Linguistic Seminar, Feb 2011.]

26.

The direction of derivation; today: between abstract nouns and adjectives.
[With Michael Spagnol & Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, GHILM 3rd Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Valletta, 8-10 April 2011.]

27.

Kinds of adnominals: Adjectives, nouns, and in between. Part I: Adnominal properties: Chaos or order?
[With Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, DEM GENITIV: Konstanz-Essex-JNU New Delhi Genitiv Workshop, Konstanz, 11-13 October 2012.]

28.

The ID of a case, with particular reference to the genitive.
[DEM GENITIV: Konstanz-Essex-JNU New Delhi Genitive Workshop, Konstanz,
11-13 October 2012.]

29.

Suffixaufnahme: Dix-sept ans après.
[DEM GENITIV: Konstanz-Essex-JNU New Delhi Genitive Workshop, Konstanz,
11-13 October 2012.]

30.

Abstraktheit in Grammatik und Typologie.
[ars grammatica, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, 17-19 June 2015.]

31.

Are basical lexical units specified for word class or not? It depends.
[Typology and Universals in Word-Formation, Košice, Slovakia,
26-28 June 2015.]

32.

Marlborough’s Bengali.
[125th Birth Anniversary Celebration of Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta, 22 December 2015.]

33.

The role of phonology in word class distinction.
[With Baris Kabak, Tone and Intonation 3, IIT Guwahati, Assam, 7–8 January 2016.]

34.

The uniquely suppletive inflection of the Indo-European demonstrative pronoun
*to-/*so- ‘that’, and how pertinacious deficits of neuters help to explain it
.
[Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Round Table, Berkeley, California, 1–2 April 2016.]

35.

Germanic *ga-: What happened? Anatonmy of gain and loss. [Loss of Functional Motivation in Language Change. 2nd UC Berkeley – LMU München Workshop, Berkeley, California, 4–5 April 2018.]

36.

Interrogative verb inflection: Why rare, though easily grammaticalised? [Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Round Table, Berkeley, California, 6–7 April 2018.]

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