Presentations
Presentations
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Invited talks
Functional flexibility and transparency - A typological investigation . Americanist Colloquium, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 18 March 2010.
Epistemic Complementizers . With K. Boye. Typological Colloquium, Leipzig university, 14 January 2010.
Referential hierarchies in morpho-syntax . Optimal Communication Colloquium, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 6 January 2010.
Distributional patterns of parts of speech and dependent clauses . Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Leipzig, 25 October 2007.
Conference presentations
Referential hierarchies and ditransitive alignment - In memory of AnnaSiewierska. 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europeae (SLE 44). Logrono, 7-11 September 2011.
Lexical preferences in Dutch ditransitives. Poster presentation with Peter de Swart and Geertje van Bergen. AMLAP 2011, Université Paris Descartes, Parijs, 1-3 September 2011.
Alignment typology in three-participant constructions . With A. Siewierska & A. Witzlack-Makarevich. 9 th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT9). Hong Kong, 21-24 July 2011.
Referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions in Blackfoot: The effects of animacy, topicality, person, and specificity. With Inge Genee & Fernando Zúñiga. Workshop on Referential Hierarchies in Three-participant constructions. Lancaster, 20-21 May 2011.
Introducing people and ideas in Europe and beyon d. With A. Siewierska. Workshop on Role complexes – (new) approaches to defining semantic roles. Zurich, 4-5 April 2011.
Lexical and referential effects on three-participant constructions. Met A. Siewierska. 4 th Conference on Syntax of the World's Languages (SLW IV). Lyon, 23-26 september 2010.
Hierarchical systems and three-participant constructions. With A. Siewierska & K. Haude. 43 th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europeae (SLE 43). Vilnius, 1-4 September 2010.
Non-prototypical ditransitives . With A. Siewierska. Workshop on variation and change in argument realization. Napels/Capri, 27-30 May 2010.
Assessing referential effects in ditransitives . With A. Witzlack-Makarevich, A. Siewierska, en B. Bickel. 1 st Euro BABEL workshop on Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax. Leipzig, 15 March 2010.
Semantic (non-)compositionality and (re-)categorization in flexible languages . With J. Don. 1 st conference on Morphology of the World's Languages (MOWL 1). Leipzig, 11-13 June 2009, and at the Conference on universals and typology in word formation. Kosice, 16-18 August 2009.
Epistemic complementizers - a cross-linguistic survey . With K. Boye. 8 th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT8). Berkeley, 23-26 July 2009
Flexibility in grammar: its diversity and its limits . With J. Don & K. Hengeveld. 3 rd conference of Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL III). Berlin, 26 September 2008.
Word classes and dependent clauses: Functional rigidity versus flexibility . 7 th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT7). Paris, 25-28 September 2007
A functional map of parts of speech . With K. Hengeveld. Workshop on semantic maps – methods and application. Paris, 29 September 2007.
On the lack of word-class distinction: flexibility and conversion. With J. Don. International workshop on flexible languages. Amsterdam, 20 April 2007.
The distribution of parts-of-speech and dependent clauses in Cofán . With R. Fischer, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). Anaheim, California, 4-7 January 2007.
Flexibility and rigidity of parts-of-speech classes and dependent clauses . 2 nd Conference on Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL II). Lancaster, 14-17 September 2006.
Lexical and complex heads and modifiers in FDG. With K. Hengeveld. 12 th International Conference on FunctionalGrammar (ICFG 12). Sao José de Rio Preto, Brazil, 19 July 2006.
The distributional parallel between parts-of-speech and dependent clauses . Conference on universality and particularity in parts-of-speech systems. Amsterdam, 8-10 June 2006.
Predicting the coding and distribution of dependent predicates on the basis of parts-of-speech systems: a typological pilot study . 38th Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE 38). Valencia, September 2005.
On the whereabouts of gender and number agreement location and accessibility. With S. Dikker. 11 th International Functional Grammar Conference (ICFG 11). Gijón, September 2004.
Inflectional morphology in four Romance-based Creoles. Met J. Arends, H. Cardoso, S. Dikker en J. Verhagen. International workshop on the phonology and morphology of creole languages. Siegen, October 2003.