Invited Talks
2019
- October. Reciprocal strategies in Daakaka. Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals. Utrecht.
- June. The Melinco project: The meaning of linguistic complexity. ERC Starting Grant selection. Brussels.
- January. Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf Irrealität in der Sprache. Theoretical and empirical perspectives on irreality in language. Bielefeld University.
2018
- Juli. Counterfactuality and Past. What-if group, University of Konstanz. 2018 Juli. Mapping irreality – Temporal and modal dimensions. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Konstanz.
- May. Mapping irreality. Linguistics Colloquium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
- April. How dense can you get? Correlates of information density as factors in crosslinguistic comparison. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
2017
- December. The role of corpora in comparative research. Case studies from the MelaTAMP project. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Jena.
- December. Multi-verb constructions – is there a continuum?. Workshop on Multiverb constructions. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- June. Tagging tense and modality. FEAST, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
- April. The future is what the universe wants. Workshop on imperatives, ZAS, Berlin.
- January. Modalität und Tempus aus ozeanischer Perspektive. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Köln. (unable to attend).
2016
- June. Eine ozeanische Perspektive auf Modalität und Tempus. Colloquium, Kiel. 2016 April. Prioritizing entries and choosing example sentences. Dictionaria workshop, Leipzig.
- June. In defense of events as a defining property of serial verb constructions. TripleA (The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages, Potsdam.
- Possessive Splits. Semantics Colloquium, Universität Tübingen.
- The dawning place and the dozing eyes – nominalizing weather events and medical states in Daakaka. Invited talk at a workshop on Lexical Flexibility in Oceanic Languages, Amsterdam. (unable to attend).
- Lexical relationality and the alienability distinction. GLOW 37, workshop on Understanding possession, Brussels.
2013
- Sprachdokumentation im Pazifik. Colloquium, Universität Potsdam.
- Meanings of TAM Markers in Daakaka. Colloquium, Universität Potsdam.
2012
- Transitivität als Wortart-übergreifende Kategorie? – Evidenz aus Daakaka. Universität Regensburg.
- Event argument serializations in Daakaka, fast and slow. Colloquium, Universität Leipzig.
Conference talks
2019
- September. With Marcin Kilarski. Expressing ideologies through linguistic examples. The case of polysynthesis and recursion. International Conference Ideology and Linguistic Ideas 2019, Tbilisi.
- September. With Ana Krajinović, Manfred Krifka and Michael Franjieh. Realis and Irrealis in Oceanic. ALT, Pavia.
- June. With Ana Krajinović, Manfred Krifka1, Valérie Guérin and Michael Franjieh. It would not be good if… Canonical apprehensive structures in Vanuatu languages. APLL 11, Leiden
- May. With Ana Krajinović and Manfred Krifka. Irrealis in branching time. AFLA, London, Canada.
- March. With Manfred Krifka and Ana Krajinović. Highlights from the MelaTAMP project: Methods and results. Vielfaltslinguistik 3. Cologne.
2018
- April. With Vera Demberg. POS tag perplexity as a measure of syntactic complexity. Measuring Linguistic Complexity (satellite workshop at EVOLANG), Torun.
- February. Poster with Ana Krajinović and Manfred Krifka. Storyboards for the elicitation of TAM contexts in Melanesia. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.
2017
- December. With Ana Krajinović (presenter). Comparable corpora for qualitative and quantitative comparison of under-documented languages. ALT, Canberra.
- July. With Ana Krajinović (presenter). What makes a mood-prominent language in the Oceanic context?. COOL 10, Honiara.
- June. With Anna Margetts. Expressing possibility in Saliba-Logea and Daakaka. APLL 9, Paris.
2016
- December. Past and counterfactuality in the Daakaka distal. workshop on Past tense, Göttingen.
- July. Paradigm-induced implicatures in TAM-expression: A view from the Daakaka distal. Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh.
- July. Epistemic indefinites in Daakaka. Triple A, Tübingen.
2013
- Diagnosing clausal boundaries in serial verb constructions. Language Documentation: Past – Present – Future, Hanover.
2011
- On the Daakaka modal system: The distal. Speaking of Possibility and Time, Göttingen.
- On the Daakaka modal system: imperatives and futures. Chronos 10, Aston University, Birmingham.
2008
- Nominal modifcation in three languages. ICLC 5, Leuven.
- Attributive Linkers. SWL 3, Berlin.
Internal talks
2017
- November. The syntax-morphology trade-off. Language Science Colloquium. Universität des Saarlandes.
- October. Information density, complexity and cross-linguistic variation. Colloquium; Universität des Saarlandes.
- September. Werkzeuge und Workflows im MelaTAMP-Projekt. CLARIN-D F-AG 3 Workshop. Datenmanagement und Korpuserstellung: Workflows und Werkzeuge; HZSK, Hamburg.
- July. Storyboards for the MelaTAMP project. MelaTAMP workshop, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
- March. with Ryan Bochnak and Anne Mucha. Towards an ontology of modal flavors – introduction. Saarbrücken, DGfS.
2015
- Definiteness and specificity cross-linguistically, SIAS Summer Institute. ZAS Berlin
- When the mood is tense, SIAS Summer Institute. ZAS Berlin.
- Conditionals in a many-worlds semantics. ZAS Berlin.
2013
- Introduction to Bislama. ZAS Berlin.
- Problems with and solutions to consolidating corpus data from fieldwork. Exploring data from language documentation, ZAS Berlin.
- with Manfred Krifka. Modality in Daakaka and Daakie. ZAS Berlin.
Public talks, exhibitions
2014
- A Melanesian perspective on time and reality. STATE Experience Science Festival.
2013
- Bislama für Anfänger (Bislama for beginners). Long night of sciences (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften), ZAS Berlin.
2011-2016
- With Soraya Hosni, Manfred Krifka und Friederike Kitschen: Multimedia installation about the DoBeS project “Ambrym”, Humboldtbox Berlin.
2011
- Science Slam, invited by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Bonn.
2010
- Science Slam in Berlin (Lido).
2007, 2008
- Talks and design of interactive lessons at the respective Long Nights of Science (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften), at the institute for General Linguistics, TU Berlin.