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Talks
2020
- Bayesian typology, University of Bielefeld, June 17, 2020
2019
- Bayesian typology,
Rational
Approaches in Language Science, Saarbrücken, October
24, 2019
- Referential scales and
differential case marking: A study using hierarchical
models in Bayesian phylogenetics, 13th
Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology,
Pavia, September 4, 2019
- (joint work with Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho) Harnessing Bayesian
phylogenetics to test a Greenbergian universal, SLE 2019, Leipzig, August
21, 2019
- Language
change as a random walk in vector space, Cluster
Conference Machine Learning in Science,
Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning, Tübingen,
July 23, 2019
- Is the best model good
enough? Assessing the absolute fit of phylogenetic models
via posterior predictive sampling, International
Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, July
4, 2019
- Strategic pronoun use,
XPrag 2019,
Edinburgh, June 20, 2019
- Complexity
clines out of Africa, Workshop Interaction
and the Evolution of Linguistic Complexity, Edinburgh,
June 18, 2019
2018
- On the proper use of
phylogenetic information in typology, Workshop Phylogenetic
Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, York, November 15,
2018
- Typologies in
equilibrium, 51st Annual
Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn,
Estonia
- Statistical
estimation of diachronic stability from synchronic data,
International Congress
of Linguistics, Cape Town
- (with Christian Bentz, Dan Dediu, and Annemarie Verkerk)
Language family trees reflect geography and demography
beyond neutral drift, 12th International
Conference on Language Evolution (Evolang XII), Torun,
April 2018.
- A Bayesian test of the
lineage-specificity of word order correlations,
Workshop The
Origins and Evolution of Word Order. A Multidisciplinary
Workshop, Part of the 12th International
Conference on Language Evolution (Evolang XII), Torun,
April 2018.
- The world tree
of languages: How to infer it from data, and what it is
good for, Workshop Evolutionary
Theory in the Humanities, Torun, April 2018
- The Bayesian
phylogenetics of grammar, Workshop
on Language Evolution, Semantics and Pragmatics,
University of Amsterdam, April 2018.
- The phylogenetics
of basic word order, Workshop Trees
and what to do with them: Phylogenetics and other
statistical approaches to linguistic diversity,
University of Tübingen, March 2018
- Typologies in
equilibrium, guest talk, University of Zurich
- A Bayesian
test of the lineage-specificity of word-order correlations,
guest talk, University of Amsterdam
2017
- (with Gwendolyn Berger, Isabella Boga, Thora Daneyko &
Luana Vaduva) The
evolution of word-order universals: Some word-order
correlation are lineage specific - others might be
universal, 12th
Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology
(ALT), Canberra, Australia, December 2017
- (with Chris Bentz and Johanna Nichols) Assessing the
effect of geographical isolation on morphological
complexity, 12th
Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology
(ALT), Canberra, Australia, December 2017
- From words to features to
trees: Computing a world tree of languages from word lists
- Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), Paris,
November 2017.
- A case study in
computer-aided typology, symposium Linguistics
Quo Vadis, MPI Nijmegen, October 2017.
- (joint work with Taraka Rama, Johann-Mattis List and
Johannes Wahle) Is
automatic cognate detection good enough for phylogenetic
inference?, Inaugural
Cultural Evolution Society Conference, Jena, September
2017.
- Modeling language
change for the worse. Some considerations from an
evolutionary perspective. LMU-UCB Workshop Language
Change for the Worse, Munich, May 2017.
- (joint work with Mattis List and Pavel Sofroniev) Using support vector
machines and state-of-the-art algorithms for phonetic
alignment to identify cognates in multi-lingual wordlists,
EACL 2017, Valencia,
April 2017
- Further evidence for
punctuated language evolution, Workshop Phylogenetic
Methods in Historical Linguistics, Tübingen, March
2017
2016
2015
- (with Johann-Mattis List) Factoring lexical and
phonetic phylogenetic characters from word lists, 6th
Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical
Linguistics, Tübingen.
- (with Johann-Mattis List) Investigatng the
potential of ancestral state reconstruction algorithms in
historical linguistics, Workshop Capturing
Phylogenetic Algorithms in Linguistics, Lorentz
Center, Leiden.
- On dating
Proto-Indoeuropean via Bayesian phylogenetic inference,
Symposum Integrating
new evidence for the origin and spread of the
Indo-European languages, MPI for the Science of
Human History, Jena
- Computationelle
historische Linguistik, LMU München
- Words and bones.
Combining linguistic and phenotypic data to probe deep
history. Workshop
Causality in the language sciences, MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig
- Estimating divergence
times for linguistic phylogenies, Workshop
on Language Variation and Change and Cultural Evolution,
University of York
2014
- Sprachgeschichte,
auf dem
Computer
rekonstruiert,
Humboldt-University
Berlin
- Language
evolution: a
data-driven
perspective,
University of
Manchester
- Which
phylogenetic
method works
best? And what
are those
trees good for
anyway?
University of
York
- How
much
information
can be
squeezed out
of raw word
lists?
- University
of Bielefeld
- University
of York
- The different flavors of the Iterated
Best Response
Model of
game-theoretic
pragmatics,
Workshop Game
Theoretic
Approaces to
Implicaturs in
Complex
Sentences,
ZAS
Berlin.
- Ambiguity
in strategic
communication,
Workshop Ambiguity
and the Design
of Language,
Barcelona
- Vagueness,
signaling and
bounded
rationality
(joint work
with Michael
Franke and
Robert van
Rooij),
Workshop On
the Emergence
of Consensus
and
Misunderstaning, Rome
- (with
Katerina
Harvati and
Hugo
Reyes-Centeno),
Words
and Bones:
correlations
between
phenotypical
and linguistic
distances
between
populations, Workshop on historical
and empirical
evolutionary
linguistics,
Tübingen.
2013
- Cost-based pragmatic implicatures
in an
artificial
language
experiment
(joint work
with Judith
Degen and
Michael
Franke),
Workshop on
Artificial
Grammar
Learning,
Tübingen.
- Phylogenetic inference from raw word
lists,
- The IBR model of game theoretic
pragmatics and
its relatives
(joint work
with Judith
Degen and
Michael
Franke)
- Social Dynamics Conference,
UC Irvine
- Stanford
University,
Dept. of
Psychology
- Technical
University
Dortmund,
Faculty of
Business,
Economics and
Social Science
- Game
theory in
semantics and
pragmatics,
Conference Logic across the University,
foundations
and
applications,
Tsinghua
University,
Beijing, China
- Comments
on Paul
Elbournes
"Pronominalization
as
NP-Deletion",
Workshop Pronouns@Tübingen,
University of
Tübingen
- Lexikostatistik 2.0, Jahrestagung
des
Instituts für
Deutsche
Sprache,
Mannheim
2012
- (with
Hannah Rohde,
Scott
Seyfarth,
Brady Clark,
and Stefan
Kaufmann) Communicating
with
Cost-based
Implicature: a
Game-Theoretic
Approach to
Ambiguity.
16th
Workshop
on the
Semantics and
Pragmatics of
Dialogue,
Paris.
- (with
Hannah Rohde,
Scott
Seyfarth,
Brady Clark,
and Stefan
Kaufmann) Cost
and
implicature in
word use:
Testing
predictions of
a
game-theoretic
model of
alignment,
Twenty-Fifth
Annual CUNY
Conference on
Human Sentence
Processing,
CUNY, New
York.
- Game
Theoretic
Pragmatics:
The Iterated
Best Response
model,
Universitat
Politècnica de
Catalunya,
Barcelona.
- simLC. A Python program for the simulation
of language
change and
language
contact.
Workshop Simulation
of Language
Change,
University of
Zurich.
- The
semantics of
color terms. A
quantitative
cross-linguistic
investigation.
Swedish
Collegium for
Advanced Study,
Uppsala
- (with
Armin Buch,
David Erschler
and Andrei
Lupas) Estimating
and
visualizing
language
similarities
using weighted
alignment and
force-directed
graph layout,
Workshop
"Beyond
Phylogeny" at
the Annual
Conference
of the
Societas
Linguistica
Europaea,
Stockholm,
Sweden
- (with
Judith Degen
and Michael
Franke) Optimal
reasoning
about
referential
expressions,
Euro-XPrag
workshop,
Oslo
- Trust is good, strategic reasoning is
better,
Workshop on
"Interdisciplinary
approaches to
scalar
implicatures",
MIT
- Estimating and visualizing language
similarities
using weighted
alignment and
force-directed
graph layout,
Workshop
LINGVIS
& UNCLH,
EACL
2012,
Avignon
- (with
Michael
Franke) Vagueness,
Signaling
& Bounded
Rationality,
Workshop Vagueness
in
Language,
Reasoning, and
Cognition,
Amsterdam
2011
2010
- Formal language theory, Workshop
Artificial
Grammar
Learning and
Formal
Language
Theory,
MPI Nijmegen
- Vagueness, signaling and bounded
rationality,
LENLS
7, Tokyo,
Japan
- Evolution without replicators:
George Price's
'General
Theory of
Selection',
Conference Language as an
Evolutionary
System: A
Multidisciplinary
Approach,
University of
Edinburgh
- Voronoi
languages,
Workshop Game
Theory and
Communication:
Prospects and
Syntheses,
Stanford
- The semantics of color terms. A
quantitative
cross-linguistic
investigation.
University of
Leipzig
- Applications
of the Price
equation to
language
evolution,
Evolang 8,
Utrecht
- Partial
variables,
Utrecht
Institute of
Linguistics
- Power
laws in
linguistic
typology,
The
11th Szklarska
Poreba
Workshop,
Szklarska
Poreba, Poland
2009
- Natural
color
categories are
convex sets,
17th Amsterdam
Colloquium
- Natural
color
categories are
convex sets,
Second
Conference
on Concept
Types and
Frames,
University of
Düsseldorf
- Searching
for
patterns in
the World
Color Survey,
University of
Frankfurt,
University of
Hamburg
- Forward
induction and
pragmatics,
Utrecht
Institute of
Linguistics, 4th
Workshop on OT
and
Interpretation
- Some
remarks on the
Chomsky
hierarchy and
cognitive
complexity of
artificial
grammar
learning,
Leiden
University,
Behavioral
Biology group
- Pragmatic
rationalizability,
Trinity
College
Dublin,
University of
Düsseldorf,
University of
Bochum
2008
- Pragmatic
rationalizability, Sinn
und Bedeutung
13,
University of
Stuttgart
- George
Price,
University of
Amsterdam, GLoRiClass
Halftime Event
- Degrees
of
evolutionary
stability of
signaling
games,
ILLC,
University of
Amsterdam
- The
evolution of
convex
categories,
Radboud
University
Nijmegen,
Department of
Philosophy
- The
evolution of
convex
categories,
Winter
Workshop
2008 on Games,
Experiments
and Philosophy,
Max
Planck
Institute of
Economics,
Jena
2007
- Evolutionary
stability
of games with
costly
signaling,
16th Amsterdam
Colloquium,
University of
Amsterdam.
- Communication
about
similarity
spaces,
University of
Osnabrück
- Priming
und
Unidirektionalität
im
Sprachwandel,
University of
Tübingen
- Static and dynamic stability conditions
for
structurally
stable
signaling
games,
Workshop
on
Communication,
Game Theory,
and Language,
Kellogg School
of Management,
Northwestern
University
- The
evolution of
convex
categories,
University of
Pittsburgh,
Department of
Economics
- The
evolution of
differential
case marking,
University of
Edinburgh
- Language
usage and
functional
grounding,
University of
Paderborn
- Exemplar
dynamics and
the emergence
of categories
in language
usage, CRC
732,
University of
Stuttgart
- Partial
variables,
presuppositions
and
compositionality,
University of
Stuttgart
-
What is a
universal? On
the
explanatory
potential of
evolutionary
game theory in
linguistics,
Logic
and
Engineering of
Natural
Language
Semantics 2007,
Miyazaki,
Japan.
-
Playing
with sounds.
How
evolutionary
game theory
helps to
explain
features of
natural
language.
13th
German-America
Frontiers of
Science
Symposium,
Irvine/California
-
Communication
about
similarity
spaces,
KNAW
Academy
Colloquium
"New
perspectives
on Games and
Interaction",
Amsterdam
2006
- Evolutionary
game theory
and linguistic
typology,
University of
Bielefeld,
Institute of
Mathematical
Economics
- The
game of case,
University of
Vienna,
Institute of
Mathematics
- Cumulativity
in syntactic
variation, and
how to model
it,
Northwestern
University
- (with
Anette
Rosenbach) Priming
und
Unidirektionalität
im
Sprachwandel,
University of
Düsseldorf
- Spieltheoretische
Dynamik als
Verbindung
zwischen
Semantik und
Pragmatik,
University of
Leipzig
-
(with Anette
Rosenbach) Priming
as a driving
force in
grammaticalization:
on the track
of
unidirectionality,
Workshop
"Language
Change and
Evolution:
Integrating
Formal and
Functional
Perspectives",
King's
College,
London
-
Exemplar
dynamics and
George Price's
General Theory
of Selection,
Workshop on
Computing and
Phonology,
University of
Groningen
-
Priming and
grammaticalization, Workshop "The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers",
University of
Bielefeld
-
Alignment
and the
empirical base
of game
theoretical
modeling in
linguistics.
Symposium
"Games
in
Communication",
CRC
673,
Bielefeld.
-
Evolutionary
Game Theory as
a framework
for modelling
language
evolution,
VI
Winter
Workshop on
Economics and
Philosophy,
Universidad
Nacional de
Educación a
Distancia,
Madrid
-
Implicatures
and Best
Response
Dynamics,
Games
and Decisions
in Pragmatics,
ZAS Berlin
- Presuppositions, games, and bounded
rationality,
The
Ninth
Symposium on
Logic and
Language,
Besenyötelek,
Hungary
- Convex
meanings and
evolutionary
stability, Evolang 6, Rome
- The
psycholinguistic
base of
unidirectional
language
change, Szklarska
Poreba
Workshop 7,
Szklarska
Poreba, Poland
2005
2004
- Evolutionary
Game Theory
and the
stability of
case marking
systems,
University of
Hawaii
- Evolutionary
Game Theory
and the
stability of
case marking
systems,
University of
California at
Los Angeles
-
Learning,
usage,
and functional
grounding,
KNAW
Masterclass
"Cognitive
Foundations of
Interpretation", Amsterdam
-
Automata,
complexity,
and Optimality
Theory,
KNAW
Academy
Colloquium
"Cognitive
Foundations of
Interpretation", Amsterdam
-
Parsing
with proof
nets,
Workshop Mathematical
Methods in
Computational
Linguistics,
University of
Potsdam
- Case
marking and
evolutionary
stability, Workshop
on the
Evolution of
Syntactic
Relations,
DGfS Annual
Meeting, Mainz
- Cultural language evolution:
acquisition or
usage?, Fifth international conference
on the
evolution of
language
(EVOLANG 5),
MPI for
evolutionary
anthropology,
Leipzig
2003
-
Evolutionary
Game Theory
and Typology,
Zentrum für
Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft
Berlin (slides)
-
Population
dynamic models
in linguistics
typology,
Institute
for Cognitive
Science,
University of
Osnabrück (slides)
-
Grammatik
und Statistik,
Humboldt-Universität
Berlin (Powerpoint
slides)
- Pragmatic
fossils. The
emergence of
differential
case marking,
University of
Nijmegen
-
Evolutionary
OT and the
emergence of
possession
splits,
Workshop
"Logic, Neural
Networks, and
OT", ZAS,
Berlin [with
Anette
Rosenbach] (slides)
- Evolutionary
Game Theory
and linguistic
typology: a
case study, 14th Amsterdam Colloquium,
University of
Amsterdam
- (with
Anette
Rosenbach)
Cumulativity
in Variation:
testing
different
versions of
Stochastic OT
empirically, Seventh Workshop on
Optimality
Theoretic
Syntax
Katholieke
Universiteit
Nijmegen (my
slides, Anette's slides)
- Simulating
language
change with
Functional OT,
Workshop on
Language
Evolution and
Computation,
ESSLLI 2003,
Vienna
- The
evolution of
weak
bidirectional
OT, Workshop
Games and
Decisions in
Pragmatics
ZAS Berlin (slides)
- Software
demonstration
evolOT,
Workshop Variation
within
Optimality
Theory,
University of
Stockholm
- evolOT.
Simulating
language
evolution with
Optimality
Theory, Szklarska
Poreba
Workshop 4
2002
- Evolutionary
Optimality
Theory,
Stanford
University (slides)
- Evolutionary
Optimality
Theory,
University of
California at
Santa Cruz
- Learning,
Evolution, and
Functional
Optimality
Theory,
University of
Amsterdam
-
Quantitative
Syntax. On the
Stochastic
Interpretation
of Optimality
Theory ,
Humboldt
University,
Berlin (slides)
- Specificity:
Combining the
approaches,
University of
Chicago (slides)
-
Specificity:
in situ
interpretation
and partiality,
Workshop on
the Roots of
Pragmasemantics,
Szklarska
Poreba, Poland
[with Cornelia
Endriss]
- Residuation,
Structural
Rules and
Context
Freeness,
Workshop
TAG+6, Venice
(slides)
- Specific
Indefinites:
presupposition
accommodation
by existential
closure,
Sinn und
Bedeutung VII,
University of
Constance
2001
- Gradient
constraints in
finite state
OT. The
unidirectional
and the
bidirectional
case,
University of
Düsseldorf
- The
interpretation
of
predicational
heads,
University of
Groninge
- Anaphora
and ellipsis
in Categorial
Grammar,
University of
Leiden
- On
the semantics
of as
and be,
DIP-colloquium,
ILLC,
University of
Amsterdam
- Optimal
syntax and
optimal
semantics. A
case study,
Universität
Osnabrück
-
Anaphora
and
Indefinites in
Type Logical
Grammar,
Workshop
Learning Logic
and Grammar,
ILLC,
University of
Amsterdam (slides)
-
Lambek
Grammars as
Combinatory
Categorial
Grammars,
Workshop Linear
Logic
and
Linguistics,
UIL-OTS,
University of
Utrecht
- Indefinites
and Sluicing.
A Type Logical
Approach,
13th Amsterdam
Colloquium,
University of
Amsterdam (slides)
- On
relational
interpretation
of multi-modal
categorial
logics,
Fourth
International
Tbilisi
Symposium on
Language,
Logic and
Computation,
Borjomi,
Georgia (slides)
- Gradient
constraints in
finite state
OT. The
unidirectional
and the
bidirectional
case,
Workshop on
Finite State
Methods in
Natural
Language
Processing,
University of
Helsinki (slides)
2000
- Bidirectional
Optimality
Theory,
Universität
Tübingen [with
Reinhard
Blutner]
- Zur
automatentheoretischen
Mächtigkeit
von
OT-Grammatiken,
Universität
München
- Against
Lexical
Decomposition
in Syntax,
University of
California at
Los Angeles (slides)
-
Topical
predicates. On
the
interpretation
of frame
setting
predicative
phrases,
11.
Wuppertaler
Linguistisches
Kolloquium:
Topik-Kommentar-Struktur,
University of
Wuppertal
- Some
notes on the
formal
properties of
bidirectional
Optimality
Theory,
Sinn +
Bedeutung V,
University of
Amsterdam (slides)
- On
the semantics
of 'as' and
'be'. A
neo-Carlsonian
approach ,
NELS 31,
Georgetown
University,
Washington, DC
- Lambek
Grammars as
Combinatory
Categorial
Grammars,
7th Workshop
on Logic,
Language,
Information
and
Computation
(WoLLIC'2000),
Universidade
Federal de
Pernambuco,
Natal (Brazil)
1999
-
Competition
and
Interpretation:
The German
Adverbs of
Repetition,
Universität
des
Saarlandes,
Saarbrücken
[with Reinhard
Blutner]
- Anaphern
und Ellipsen
in der
Kategorialgrammatik,
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf
- "Wieder".
Eine
Fallstudie in
optimalitätstheoretischer
Semantik,
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf
- Optimal
syntax and
optimal
semantics,
DIP collquium,
ILLC,
University of
Amsterdam (slides)
- A
Theory of
wieder
('again'),
Humboldt-University
Berlin
-
Competition
and
Interpretation:
The German
Adverbs of
Repetition,
Conference
"Approaching
the Grammar of
Adjuncts",
Oslo [with Reinhard
Blutner] (slides)
-
Resource
sharing in
type logical
grammar,
Formal Grammar
conference,
Utrecht (slides)
- Against
Lexical
Decomposition
in Syntax
, IATL 15,
Haifa [with Reinhard
Blutner]
- Deconstructing
Jacobson's Z,
12th Amsterdam
Colloquium,
University of
Amsterdam
- On
the generative
capacity of
Multi- Modal
Categorial
Grammars,
6th Meeting on
Mathematics of
Language,
University of
Central
Florida,
Orlando
- The
German
repetitivals:
A pragmatic
investigation.
DGfS-Jahrestagung,
Constance,
[with Reinhard
Blutner]
1998
- VP-Ellipsis
in Categorial
Grammar,
MIT, Cambridge
(Mass.)
- Anaphora
and Scope in
Categorial
Grammar ,
Conference
"Logical
Aspects of
Computational
Linguistics",
Grenoble
- Focus
without
variables: A
multi-modal
analysis,
WCCFL 17,
University of
British
Columbia,
Vancouver
1997
- Categorial
Grammar and
ellipsis
resolution,
Humboldt-University
Berlin
- How
to model
questions
under
discussion?,
Workshop
"Questions
under
Discussion",
University of
Amsterdam
- Anaphora
and Ellipsis
in Type
Logical
Grammar,
11th Amsterdam
Colloquium,
University of
Amsterdam
1996
- A
reunion with
the
stage/individual
contrast,
University of
Cologne
- Definiteness
and
Information
Structure,
German Society
for Semantics
Annual
Meeting,
University of
Tübingen
- The
Stage/Individual
Contrast
Revisited
, WCCFL 15,
University of
California at
Irvine
1995
- On
the dynamics
of the focus
particle
'only',
University of
Leipzig
- Only
Updates. On
the Dynamics
of the Focus
Particle
'only',
10th Amsterdam
Colloquium,
University of
Amsterdam
- Topic,
Scrambling and
Aktionsart,
Workshop on
Focus at the
German
Linguistic
Society Annual
Meeting,
Göttingen
1994
- Dynamic
logic and
linguistic
semantics,
University of
Leipzig
- Topic,
Scrambling and
Aktionsart,
ConSOLE 3,
University of
Venice
- Topic,
Focus and Weak
Quantifiers,
NELS 25,
University of
Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
1993
- Discourse
linking and
the
stage/individual
contrast,
University of
Tübingen
1992
- Discourse
linking and
the
stage/individual
contrast,
SFB-Treffen,
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