| 2011 |
Variation and universals in referential density. Lecture given at the Linguistics Department, U. Geneva, November 15, 2011 |
| 2011 |
(with Volker Gast) The corpus as a database: Towards a multifactorial typology of clause linkage. Exploratory Workshop: towards a multilingual database of connectives, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, August 31, 2011 PDF |
| 2011 |
(with Volker Gast and Lennart Bierkandt) Towards a corpus-based typology of clause linkage. A case study of cross-clausal extraction. Guest lecture in Hamburg, September 5, 2011 PDF |
| 2011 |
Discussion notes from the SLE workshop on Referential Hierarchies in Alignment Typology. 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño, Spain, September 8-9, 2011 |
| 2011 |
Government and agreement: what's where why? Explorations in Syntactic Government and Subcategorisation, Cambridge, England, September 1, 2011 |
| 2011 |
Putting variation center stage: beyond ‘language’ (or ‘dialect’) as the basic data unit in typology (and elsewhere). Variation and Typology: New trends in Syntactic Research, Helsinki, August 25, 2011 |
| 2011 |
The role of genealogical units in explaining linguistic distributions: a case study on referential density. Workshop “Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in text and speech: focus on the joint analysis of multiple characteristics”, Freiburg, Germany, 9-11 February 2011 |
| 2010 |
(with Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharako) Case alignment across the lexicon. Syntax of the World’s Languages IV Lyon, 23-26 September 2010 PDF |
| 2010 |
Areas and universals. Plenary talk, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius, 3 September 2010 |
| 2010 |
(with Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Taras Zakharako and Lennart Bierkandt) Dissecting hierarchical alignment. Workshop “Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments”, Leipzig, 28-29 August, 2010 PDF |
| 2010 |
Towards a multivariate typology of reference tracking. Meeting of the Research Group 742 “Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments”, Leipzig, April 21 PDF |
| 2010 |
Course on Quantitative methods in typology. Summer School on Linguistic Typology, Leipzig, August 2010 PDF |
| 2010 |
Referential effects on grammatical relations. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dep. of Linguistics, Budapest, March 26 |
| 2009 |
Typological patterns and hidden diversity. Plenary talk, 8th Biannual Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Berkeley, July 24, 2009 |
| 2009 |
(with Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharako) Is differential case marking caused by a universal referential scale? 8th Biannual Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Berkeley, July 26, 2009 |
| 2008 |
Quantitative Analysis of DOBES Corpora Using R. DOBES Workshop on Language Documentation Methods, Nijmegen, June 13, 2008. |
| 2008 |
Grammatical relations in Chintang. Work in Progress presentation, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, October 7, 2008. |
| 2007 |
(with Martin Gaenszle) Generics as First Person Undergoers and the Political History of the Southern Kirant. 7th Biannual Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Paris, September 27, 2007. |
| 2007 |
(with René Schiering) Does Vietnamese have prosodic words? A Mon-Khmer development and its typological significance. Austroasiatic Workshop, April 22, 2007, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. PDF |
| 2006 |
What favors rara? A Himalayan case study. Rara and Rarissima conference, Leipzig, March 29 - April 1, 2006 |
| 2006 |
Referential density in typological perspective. Plenary talk, Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity, March 22, 2006 |
| 2006 |
Statistical Issues in Areal Typology. 28th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Bielefeld, February 23, 2006 |
| 2005 |
(with Kristine Hildebrandt)Word domains. Work in Progress presentation, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, February 15, 2005 (with Kristine Hildebrandt) PDF |
| 2005 |
On the typological variables of relativization. Workshop on the typology, acquisition, and processing of relative clauses, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, June 11, 2005 |
| 2005 |
Statistische Probleme korpusbasierter Typologie. 3. Leipziger Vernetzungstreffen Korpuslinguistik, September 29, 2005 |
| 2005 |
Korpusbasierte Variablen in der Typologie. 1. Leipziger Vernetzungstreffen Korpuslinguistik, April 28, 2005 |
| 2004 |
Munda languages and the typological enclave in the Himalayas. Munda Meeting, Leipzig, October 27 |
| 2003 |
(with Johanna Nichols) Typological enclaves. 5th Biannual Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Cagliari, September 18, 2003 PDF |
| 2002 |
The AUTOTYP research program. Invited talk, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Typology Resource Center Utrecht, September 26-28, 2002 |
| 2001 |
Genetic stability in the contact zone of Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European. 23rd Annual Meeting of the German Association for Linguistics, Leipzig, February 28. |
