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Invited talks
2019
- Bayesian
typology, Rational
Approaches in Language Science, Saarbrücken, October
24, 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
- Complexity
clines out of Africa, Workshop Interaction
and the Evolution of Linguistic Complexity, Edinburgh,
June 18, 2019
- Strategic
pronoun use, XPrag 2019,
Edinburgh, June 20, 2019
2018
- On the proper use of
phylogenetic information in typology, Workshop Phylogenetic
Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, York, November 15,
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.
2017
2016
2015
2013
- Comments on Paul Elbournes "Pronominalization as
NP-Deletion", Workshop Pronouns@Tübingen,
University of Tübingen
- Game theory in semantics and pragmatics, Conference Logic across the
University, foundations and applications, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China
- Phylogenetic
inference from raw word lists, Language
Diversity Congress, Groningen
- The IBR model of game
theoretic pragmatics and its relatives (joint work
with Judith Degen and Michael Franke), Social Dynamics
Conference, UC Irvine
- Lexikostatistik 2.0, Jahrestagung
des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
2012
2010
- Formal language
theory, Workshop Artificial
Grammar Learning and Formal Language Theory, MPI
Nijmegen
- 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
- Applications of the Price
equation to language evolution, Evolang 8,
Utrecht
- Power laws in linguistic
typology, The 11th Szklarska
Poreba Workshop, Szklarska Poreba, Poland
2009
2008
2007
- Static and dynamic
stability conditions for structurally stable signaling
games, Workshop
on Communication, Game Theory, and Language, Kellogg
School of Management, Northwestern University
- 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
- (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
2005
2004
- 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
2003
- Evolutionary OT and the emergence of possession
splits, Workshop "Logic, Neural Networks, and OT",
ZAS, Berlin [with Anette Rosenbach] (slides)
2002
2001
2000
- Topical predicates. On the interpretation of frame
setting predicative phrases, 11. Wuppertaler
Linguistisches Kolloquium: Topik-Kommentar-Struktur,
University of Wuppertal
1999
- 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)
1997
- How to model questions under discussion?,
Workshop "Questions under Discussion", University of
Amsterdam