Talks
This list contains only talks and presentations at reviewed conferences or workshops.
- 2025
- 2024
- 05.09.2024, What is the meaning of a derivational affix? What
distributional semantics can and cannot tell us, 10th International Conference of the GCLA, Osnabrück.
- 11.04.2024, (with Barbara Schlücker) Metaphor and metonymy: Form and function in a contrastive perspective, Germanic Sandwich 9, Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
- 2023
- 26.08.2023, Modification and the nature of adjectives, RTANJ Linguistics 4, Rtanj, Serbia.
- 08.08.2023, The role of semantics in the rivalry of -ity and -ness: Evidence from
distributional models, 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Köln. slides [.pdf]
- 08.03.2023, Creative -ness, 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) AG1 - Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface: Creativity and routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions , Köln. slides [.pdf]
- 2022
- 05.12.2022, controversal -ly, linguistweets, the third international
twitter conference
on linguistics. Organized by ABRALIN, the Brazilian Linguistics Association
- 28.09.2022, Adverbbildungen im Sprachvergleich: Ambiguitäten und Ableitungsrichtung, 27. Deutscher Germanistentag. Doppelpanel Ambiguität in der Wortbildung als didaktischer Zugang zur Semantik, Paderborn
- 25.02.2022, (with Barbara Schlücker) The figurative potential of adjective noun compounds, 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) AG15 - Literal and Figurative Meanings of Compounds, Tübingen (virtual).
- 2021
- 28.07.2021, (with Claudia Maienborn) Zu den (vermeintlichen) adjektivischen
Klammerparadoxien: beautiful dancer vs. schöne
Tänzerin, XIV. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), Palermo (virtual).
- 27.07.2021, (with Holger Gauza and Britta Stolterfoht) Disentangling factors in the placement of manner adverbials in German: The effect of
distributional similarity, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021), Vienna (virtual).
- 04.06.2021, (with Sven Kotowski) The interplay of verb class,
individual verb, and morphological process: A quantitative
investigation into scalar out- prefixation, Sixth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 6), Joensuu, Finland (virtual).
- 23.04.2021, (with Sven Kotowski) Higher-level generalizations in scalar out-prefixation: predicting interpretations via base classes, Morfologiedagen - Morphology Days in the Low Countries 2021 (MiLC), Utrecht (virtual).
- 25.02.2021, Splitting -ly's: Using word embeddings to distinguish
derivation and inflection, 43. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) AG 3: The semantics of derivational
morphology: Theory, methods,
evidence, Freiburg (virtual).
- 2020
- 05.12.2020, Why are we *quick* to point out, but not *fast*?, linguistweets, the first international
twitter conference
on linguistics. Organized by ABRALIN, the Brazilian Linguistics Association
- 27.07.2020, (with Melanie Bell) Contextual effects in compound interpretation, UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020, Birmingham (virtual).
- 07.02.2020, (with Sven Kotowski) Understanding out-prefixation: merging qualitative and distributional analyses, 19th International Morphology Meeting (IMM), Wien.
- 2019
- 04.11.2019, (with Melanie Bell) Interpreting novel compounds in and out of context, The International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc) 2019, Tübingen.
- 04.10.2019, Distributional profiling and the semantics of modifier classes, Colloque de Syntaxe
et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP) 2019, Paris.
- 23.08.2019, (with Melanie Bell) Interpretational diversity in novel compounds, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universität Leipzig.
- 24.05.2019, Paraphrases and the idiosyncrasies of complex predications, Workshop `Modification of Complex Predicates', Universität Düsseldorf.
- 2018
- 20.07.2018, (with Melanie Bell) Novel English compounds: how do we know what they mean?, Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), London.
- 11.05.2018, (with Melanie Bell) Interpreting novel compounds, Workshop `Models and methods in morphology', 18th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest.
- 23.03.2018, (invited talk) Semantics or pragmatics? How to explain irregularities in Mandarin
Adjective Noun constructions, Conference `Linguistics and Asian Languages', Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
- 2017
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 10.10.2013, Semantic transparency of compounds and the semantics/pragmatics
boundary, Conference `Investigating
semantics: Empirical and philosophical approaches', Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
- 16.09.2013, (with Melanie Bell) Compound internal semantic structure and its role in semantic transparency, Conference `
The 9th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting', Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- 30.05.2013, (with Melanie Bell) Semantic transparency and semantic relations in English
compounds, Conference `New territories in word-formation', University of
Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 19.03.2013, (with Melanie Bell) Semantic transparency: challenges for distributional
semantics, Workshop `Towards a formal distributional semantics', IWCS 2013,
Universität Potsdam.
- 2011
- 15.09.2011, Manner adverbs vs. descriptive complements: a semantic account, The 7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-7), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.
- 22.07.2011, A failure to comprehend - complex nominals revisited, 4th
International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English,
Universität Osnabrück.
- 25.02.2011, Komposita oder Phrasen? Der Status von A N Konstruktionen im
Sprachvergleich, AG 7 `Wort oder Phrase', DGfS-Tagung 2011,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
- 2010
- 25.09.2010, Binding and anaphoric islands: the case of A N compounds,
Workshop on 'Peculiar Binding Configurations', Universität Stuttgart.
- 15.05.2010, Semantic transparency and anaphoric islands, Workshop 'Meaning and Lexicalization of Word Formation' at the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest.
- 2009
- 28.08.2009, Property theory and the structure of nominal expressions in
Mandarin Chinese, 6th Conference of the European Association of Chinese
Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
- 2008
- 06/07.10.2008, A-N Nominals between naming and description: enlightenment
from Mandarin?, Workshop on Naming Strategies, Freie Universität Berlin.
- 08.07.2008, The semantic analysis of ad-verbal constituents, International
Contrastive Linguistics Conference 5, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- 2007
- 04.10.2007, Resolving scope mismatches in manner modification, CSSP 2007, Paris
- 18.09.2007, (De-)Adjectival adverbials and measurability, CASTL Workshop
"The Syntax and Semantics of Measurability", Tromsø
- 2006
- 01.12.2006, Die Interaktion von adverbialen Adjektiven und Verben bei
Art-und-Weise Lesarten, Nachwuchskolloquium des SFB 471, Universität Konstanz
- 20.01.2006, The semantics of adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese, 4th Conference of
the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Budapest
- 2005
- 15.10.2005, Subsective adjectives in context: a two-step approach, Sinn und
Bedeutung 10, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- 2004
- 03.12.2004, Formale Repräsentationen von Adverbialen der Art und Weise und
kognitive Plausibilität, Nachwuchskolloquium des SFB 471, Universität Konstanz
- 2003
- 10.10.2003, Manner Adverbs, Events and Underspecification: The Formal
Representation of Manner Adverbs, 5th Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and
Computation, Tiflis
- 30.09.2003, Manners and Causation, Sinn und Bedeutung 8,
Universität Frankfurt
- 2002
- 03.10.2002, Before or After the Direct Object: German Adjectival Adverbs
and the Syntax Semantics Interface, Sinn und Bedeutung 7,
Universität Konstanz
- 2001
- 09.10.2001, Pure Manner Adverbs Revisited, Sinn und Bedeutung 6,
Universität Osnabrück
- 07.06.2001 The Adverb kuai4 as an adjunct vs. kuai4 as a complement,
15èmes Journées de Linguistique de l'Asie Orientale, CRLAO, Paris