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Submitted talks at conferences and workshops
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
- 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
2018
- Typologies in
equilibrium, 51st Annual
Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn,
Estonia, August 2018
- Statistical
estimation of diachronic stability from synchronic data,
International Congress
of Linguistics, Cape Town, July 2018.
- (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 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
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
- (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.
- (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
2015
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.
- (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
- Estimating and visualizing language similarities using
weighted alignment and force-directed graph layout, Workshop
LINGVIS & UNCLH, EACL 2012,
Avignon
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
- 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
2003
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Anaphora and Ellipsis in Type Logical Grammar, 11th
Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam
1996
- 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
- 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
- Topic, Scrambling and Aktionsart, ConSOLE 3,
University of Venice
- Topic, Focus and Weak Quantifiers, NELS 25,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia