Conference presentations:
‘Inflectional morphology in four Romance-based Creoles.’ Paper presented at the International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages. Siegen, Germany. October 2003 (together with J. Arends, H. Cardoso, S. Dikker en J. Verhagen).
‘Streetlanguage: a multilingal variety spoken by multi-ethnic groups of adolescents in cities of the Netherlands.’ Poster presented at the 15th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS 15), April 2004, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
‘On the whereabouts of gender and number agreement: location and accessibility.’ Paperpresented at the 11th International Functional Grammar Conference (ICFG 11), September 2004, Gijón, Spain. (together with Suzanne Dikker).
‘Predicting the coding and distribution of dependent predicateson the basis of parts-of-speech systems: a typological pilot study.’ Presented as a paper at the 38th Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE 38) (Formal, Functional, and Typological Perspectives on Discourse and Grammar.), September 2005, Valencia, Spain.
Presented as a poster at the 5th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM5), September 2005, Fréjus, France.
‘The distributional parallel between Parts-of-Speech and dependent clauses’. Paper presented at the Conference on Universalityand Particularity in Parts-of-Speech Systems. Amsterdam, June 8-10 2006.
'Lexical and complex heads and modifiers in FDG.' With Kees Hengeveld. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Functional Grammar. Sao José de Rio Preto, Brazil. July 19, 2006.
'Flexibility and rigidity of Parts-of-Speech classes and Dependent clauses.'Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL2), Lancaster, 14-17 September 2006.
'Parts-of-Speech and Dependent clauses: a typological study.' Presentation at Nieuw Amsterdams Peil 2006, Amsterdam, September 29, 2006.
'The distribution of Parts-of-Speech and Dependent Clauses in Cofán.' Paper with Rafael Fischer, presented at the Americanist Workshop on Subordination, Max Plack Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, 15 December 2007, and at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), Anaheim, California, 4-7 January 2007.
"On the lack of word-class distinction: flexibility and conversion." Paper with Jan Don, presented at the Workshop on Flexible Languages, Amsterdam, April 20, 2007.
"Word classes and dependent clauses: Functional rigidity versus flexibility." Paper presented at the the 7th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT7) in Paris, 25-28th September 2007.
"A functional map of parts of speech." Paper presented with Kees Hengeveld on the Workshop on Semantic Maps, methods and application, Paris, 29 September 2007.
"Distributional patterns of parts of speech and dependent clauses." Guest talk given at the Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipig, Germany. 25 oktober 2007, and at the Typology Colloquium of Leipzig University, 1 November 2007.
"Flexibility in grammar: its diversity and its limits." Paper presented with Jan Don and Kees Hengeveld at the 3rd conference of Syntax of the World's Languages in Berlin, 26 September 2008.
Teaching:
Co-teacher of 'Inleiding Taalwetenschap' (Introduction to linguistics) and 'Taaltheorie' (Linguistic theories). Both in Dutch.
Co-teacher of 'The essence of Language', master course for non-linguists, in English.
Book editing:
Co-editor (with Jan Rijkhoff) of a volume on Flexible word classes: a typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech. Submitted to Oxford University Press.
Reviewing:
Reviews for the following journals: Alfa Revista Lingüística, Studies in Language, Linguistic Discovery, and Language Sciences.
'Talenquiz' (Language quiz):
Every month, I contribute a question to the 'Talenquiz'. This is an initiative of the Taalstudio, an organization in Amsterdam that develops products and projects based on linguistic research. The 'Talenquiz' is a collection of interesting and fun questions (and answers, and topics for discussion) about language, released monthly and aimed at the upper grades of Dutch secondary school. For more information and/or registration,check the following website: http://www.taalstudio.nl/talenquiz/index.html .
Organisational activities:
January 2006 - Febraury 2007: PhD-representative in the advisory board of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
February-April 2007: Organiser of international workshop on flexible languages, April 20, 2007, at the University of Amsterdam.
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