2025
Between states and events (joint work with Fabienne Martin) [Berlin slides]
  • Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 18, Wrocław,   September 2025 (invited talk)
  • Workshop "Time and events between language and cognition: A view from Romance", Berlin, March 2025 (invited talk)
The importance of having a a degree: Missing short and long form adjectives in BCMS (with Predrag Kovačević & Marko Simonović) [GLOW slides]
  • SinFonIJA 18, Skopje,   September 2025 (as The importance of having a degree: Attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS)
  • GLOW Workshop "(Universal) Paradigmatic Gaps", Göttingen, March 2025
The importance of having a a degree: On the semantics of short and long form adjectives in BCMS (with Predrag Kovačević & Marko Simonović) [Szklarska slides]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Frankfurt,   September 2025 (as The importance of having a degree: On the semantics of attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS)
  • 25th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 2025

2024
Aspekt und temporale Definitheit [slides]
  • Tübingen, June 2024 (invited talk)
Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and empirical considerations (with Radek Šimík & Marcin Wągiel) [latest slides]
  • Vienna, January 2024 (invited talk)

2023
Aspect and finiteness [latest slides]
  • Slavic Linguistics Webinars, Verona, December 2023
  • Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 16, Graz, November/December 2023
  • Workshop "The aspectual architecture of the Slavic verb: Analogies in other languages and other grammatical domains", Leizpig, November 2023 (invited talk)
  • RTANJ Linguistics 4, August 2023
Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and empirical considerations (with Radek Šimík & Marcin Wągiel)
  • GLiF seminar, Barcelona, March 2023
  • ZAS Semantics Circle, Berlin, February 2023
Aspeclecticism [latest slides]
  • Graz linguistics colloquium, January 2023

2022
Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and empirical considerations (with Radek Šimík & Marcin Wągiel)
  • SlavLingColl, December 2022
  • Time in Translation Workshop, Utrecht, September 2022 (invited talk)
Aspeclecticism
  • Aspect workshop, Wrocław, October 2022 (invited talk)

2021
Non-conservative construals with percentages in Slavic  and German (with Marcin Wągiel) [latest longer slides]    [related SuB paper]  [related Glossa paper]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 26, Cologne, September 2021 [OSF page]
  • Oslo linguistics colloquium, April 2021
  • Göttingen Ling Colloquium, April 2021
  • LingLunch Paris Diderot, March 2021
  • SlavLingColl, February 2021
Positive evaluation, intensification and positive polarity. What's Deg got to do with them? (with Elena Castroviejo) [slides]
  • Workshop "The meaning of functional categories in the verbal sentential domain", UAB, June 2021
'True' imperfectivity in discourse [slides]  [related LSP paper]
  • Formal Description of Slavic Languages 15, Leipzig, June 2021
Brainstorming on Rick Nouwen's Vacuity and competition in models of intensification (with Elena Castroviejo) [slides]  [related Springer paper]
  • Workshop "Scales, degrees and implicature: Novel synergies between semantics and pragmatics", Potsdam, May 2021 (invited talk)
Non-conservative construals with percentages in Slavic (with Marcin Wągiel) [related Journal of Slavic Linguistics paper]
  • Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 30, MIT, May 2021

2020
On evaluative intensification and positive polarity: Catalan GOOD as a case study  (joint work with Elena Castroviejo) [slides]
  • Workshop "Degree Expressions and Polarity", ZAS Berlin, March 2020 (invited talk; had to be cancelled but was given as a seminar a month later)
  • 21st Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February/March 2020

2019
Against the notion of fake imperfectivity [TbiLLC slides]
  • Syn-Sem Kolloquium, Potsdam, December 2019 (invited talk)
  • TbiLLC 2019: Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Batumi, September 2019 (invited talk)
  • Workshop "Turning Slavic aspect inside out: Mini-conference for outsiders and insiders", Leipzig, June 2019 (invited talk)
  • GLiF seminar, UPF, Barcelona, May 2019 (invited talk)
  • DSemLin seminar, HiTT Linguistic Group, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, April 2019  (invited talk)
  • (different version, juxtaposition with collaboration with Olga Borik) SinFonIJA 12, Brno, September 2019
Imperfektive Passivpartizipien im Russischen (based on joint work with Olga Borik) [slides]
  • 13. Deutscher Slavistentag, Trier, September 2019
Russian past passive participles [slides]
  • Turning Slavic aspect inside out: Mini-conference for outsiders and insiders, Leipzig, June 2019 (invited talk)
Adverbial readings of adjectives  (based on joint work with Louise McNally) [latest handout]
  • RTANJ Linguistics 3, Serbia, July 2019 
  • Workshop Modification and complex predicates, Düsseldorf, May 2019  (invited talk)
Distributional modification, not quantification (mostly based on joint work with Louise McNally) [handout]  [related Language paper]  [related OUP handbook chapter final draft]
  • DP Borders workshop, ZAS Berlin, January 2019  (invited talk)

2018
Russian imperfective past passive participles  (partially based on joint work with Olga Borik) [latest slides]
  • BCLG workshop on aspect, Brussels,  December 2018  (invited talk) 
  • Slawistik Kolloquium, HU Berlin, December 2018
Event kinds  [slides] [related HDR thesis] [related OUP handbook chapter final draft]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2018  (invited talk)
Modification in idioms  (mostly based on joint work with Sascha Bargmann, Frank Richter)
  • Polish Cognitive Lingusitics Conference, September 2018 (invited talk)
Cross-Slavic variation in passives  [WAASAP slides]​  [related Languages paper]
  • RTANJ Linguistics 2, Rtanj,  Serbia,  September 2018
  • WAASAP 4, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, June 2018  (invited talk) 
Anaphoric reference by Russian imperfective past passive participles  (with Olga Borik)   [DGfS slides]
  • London Semantics Day 2018, Queen Mary University of London, May 2018 (invited talk) (as Russian imperfective past participles)
  • DGfS workshop Reference beyond the DP: Towards a crosslinguistic typology of the syntax and semantics of proforms, Stuttgart,  March 2018 
How to modify idioms  (with Sascha Bargmann and Frank Richter)  [latest slides]   [related LSP paper]
  • DGfS workshop One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax and semantics, Stuttgart, March 2018 
  • 19th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 2018 
Das russische imperfektive periphrastische Passiv  (partially based on joint work with Olga Borik)  [slides]
  • Tübingen University,  February 2018 (invited talk) 
Idioms and the syntax/semantics interface of descriptive content vs. reference  ​(joint work with Louise McNally)  [slides] [related Linguistics paper]
  • OASIS Workshop on Nominal Phrase Meaning, Berlin, January 2018 

2017
A plea for event kind [slides] [related HDR thesis]  [related OUP handbook chapter final draft]
  • SinFonIJA 10, Dubrovnik, October 2017  (invited talk) 
Cross-Slavic differences in grammatical aspect
  • RTANJ Linguistics 1, Rtanj, Serbia, July 2017
'Good' as an evaluative intensifier (joint work with Elena Castroviejo) [latest slides] [poster] [related Brill paper]
  • Bochum, June 2017  (invited talk)
  • University of Ulster, March 2017  (invited talk)
  • ZAS, January 2017 (as  From a subsective evaluative adjective to an intensifier. The case of 'good')  (invited talk)
  • GLOW 40 workshop 'Compositionality at the Interfaces', Leiden, March 2017 (poster)
  • DGfS workshop Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding, Saarbrücken, March 2017 (as  Non-truth-conditional intensification. The case of 'good')
The role of information structure in Russian imperfective passive (with Olga Borik)  [latest handout] [poster]
  • Non-At-Issue Meaning and Information Structure, Oslo, May 2017
  • 18th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, March 2017 (as The role of presupposition and information structure in Russian imperfective passives,  poster)
  • TELIC 2017 (Workshop on Non-culminating, Irresultative and Atelic Readings of Telic Predicates. Combining Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives), Stuttgart, January 2017 (as Culminated telic events: The presuppositional imperfective passive in Russian)

2016
From a subsective evaluative adjective to an intensifier. The case of 'good' (with Elena Castroviejo) [related Festschrift paper (in Spanish)]
  • University of Leipzig, December 2016  (invited talk, Gehrke)
  • Going Romance 2016, Frankfurt/M., December 2016
Imperfective past passive participles in Russian (with Olga Borik)  [related LSP paper]
  • Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 12, HU Berlin, December 2016
  • Workshop Event Semantics 2016, Düsseldorf, November 2016 (as The presuppositional imperfective passive in Russian)
  • HSE Semantics & Pragmatics Workshop, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September/October 2016
Passives are not inherently more complex than actives: Insights from Processing Verbal Passives in German (with Nino Grillo, Artemis Alexiadou, Nils Hirsch, Caterina Paolazzi, Andrea Santi)  [latest handout]  [related Journal of Linguistics paper]
  • Workshop Genus verbi, Wittenberg, November 2016
  • DGfS workshop The syntax of argument structure: Empirical advancement and theoretical relevance, Konstanz, February 2016 (as  Passives are not inherently more complex than actives)
Distributional Modification, not Quantification (with Louise McNally)  [handout] [related Language paper] 
  • Workshop Semantic Content and Conversational Dynamics, Universitat de Barcelona, June/July 2016
Vergleichsklassen von Ereignissen in der Interpretation von Adverbien  [handout] 
  • Workshop Position und Interpretation Syntax, Semantik und Informationsstruktur adverbialer Modifikatoren, University of Tübingen, June 2016  (invited talk)
Definite participants in event kinds (poster)  [poster]
  • Definiteness Across Languages, National Autonomous University of Mexico, June 2016
On evaluative intensification and positive polarity (joint work with Elena Castroviejo)  [slides]  [related paper ms.]
  • LingLunch, Paris Diderot, April 2016  (invited talk)
On GOOD manners (joint work with Elena Castroviejo)
  • Lecture series, University of Göttingen, January 2016  (invited talk)

2015
Wenn man nicht in den Saal tanzen kann: Deutsch und Französisch im linguistischen Vergleich  [slides] 
  • IZKT lecture series (fellowship of the DVA foundation), December 2015  (invited talk)
Frequency distribution over eventualities entailed by frequency distribution over their participants (with Louise McNally)
  • Event Semantics 2015, Stuttgart, November 2015
Manner adverbs: Between- vs. within-event comparison [latest handout] [poster]    [related HDR thesis]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Tübingen, September 2015 (poster)  (as  Between- vs. within-event comparison in the analysis of manner adverbs)
  • Workshop on the Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions, Stuttgart, June 2015  (as  When dispositions turn into manner​)
  • DelimEvents Workshop, Paris Diderot, June 2015 (as  When dispositions turn into manner)  (invited talk)
  • 16th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba, February 2015  (invited talk)
Good manners: On the degree effect of GOOD events (with Elena Castroviejo)  [poster] [related SuB paper]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Tübingen, September 2015 (poster)
  • Affectedness Workshop 2015: Verb Classes and the Scale of Change in Affected Arguments, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2015 (invited talk, Gehrke)
​On extreme degree and positive polarity (with Elena Castroviejo)  [related paper ms.]
  • DGfS Workshop on Varieties of Positive Polarity Items, Leipzig, March 2015

 2014
A good intensifier (with Elena Castroviejo)  [related Springer paper]
  • LENLS 11, Tokyo, November 2014
The different degrees of WELL (with Elena Castroviejo)
  • From Linguistics Labs Workshop, Brno, September 2014  (invited talk, Gehrke)
  • Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, July 2014  (invited talk, Gehrke)
Passive psych predicates (with Cristina Marco) [handout] [related Visor paper (in Spanish), final draft]
  • SinFonIJA 7, Graz, September 2014
Adjectival participles, event kind modification and pseudo-incorporation [related NLLT paper]
  • Workshop on the occasion of Ana Aguilar Guevara's defense, Utrecht, June 2014  (invited talk)
Manner-in-disguise vs. degree WELL (with Elena Castroviejo)
  • Olinco 2014, June 2014
Distributional modification: The case of frequency adjectives (with Louise McNally)  [related Language paper]
  • Labex EFL meeting Quantification, scalarité, pluralité, Paris Diderot, February 2014 (invited talk, Gehrke)
  • 15th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 2014
Frequency distribution over eventualities entailed by frequency distribution over their participants (with Louise McNally)
  • (Co-)Distributivity Workshop, Paris 8, February 2014

2013
Kind formation within the VP: Comparing Russian factual imperfectives and German adjectival passives (with Olav Mueller-Reichau) [related FDSL paper, final draft]
  • 10th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Leipzig, December 2013
Event individuation by objects: Evidence from frequency adjectives (with Louise McNally)  [related SuB paper]
  • Workshop on Aspect at the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Gudauri, September 2013
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 18, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, September 2013
Different ways to be passive
  • 10th Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, CSIC Madrid, July 2013  (invited talk)
Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives: Evidence from corpora (with Cristina Marco) 
  • Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6, Saint Petersburg, June 2013
How to miss your P (based on joint work with Marika Lekakou)
  • Weak Referentiality Workshop, Utrecht, March 2013 (invited talk)

2012
How to cause a passive state: The role of by-phrases in adjectival passives
  • Paris 8, December 2012  (invited talk)
  • University of Brno, April 2012 (as How to cause a passive state)  (invited talk)
  • University of Stuttgart, February 2012  (as  How to cause a passive state)   (invited talk)
Different ways to be passive: Event-related modification of German adjectival passives 
  • Paris 7, December 2012  (invited talk)
Frequency adjectives as distributional modifiers (based on joint work with Louise McNally) [related Language paper]
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, November 2012  (invited talk)
Preposition drop in Greek: A case for pseudo-incorporation (with Marika Lekakou) [related Studies in Greek Linguistics paper]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 17, Paris, September 2012
  • Workshop on Weak Referentiality and Definitude, Florianópolis, August 2012 (as When P and D go missing)
  • Workshop on Prefix Verbs: The Impact of Preposition-like Elements on the Syntax and Semantics of Verbs, Stuttgart, July 2012 (as In the absence of P)
  • 33rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Thessaloniki, April 2012  (as How to miss your preposition)
Adjectival participles revisited (with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer)   [related Lingua paper]
  • Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles, London, June 2012
The role of  by-phrases in stative passives (with Cristina Marco)  [related Lingua paper]
  • Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles, London, June 2012
A Logistic Regression Model for adjectival modification vs. modification by prepositional phrase (with Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, and Louise McNally)
  • Linguistic Evidence 2012, Tübingen, February 2012

2011
Towards a uniform semantics for frequency adjectives (with Louise McNally)
  • University of Düsseldorf, June 2011 (invited talk, Gehrke)
Event-modification of German adjectival passives
  • Paris 8, June 2011 (invited talk)
Adjectival passives and event kinds
  • University College London, March 2011  (invited talk)
Adjectives as saturators vs. modifiers: Statistical evidence (with Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, and Louise McNally) [related Springer paper]
  • 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, December 2011
Event-related modification with adjectival passives
  • Workshop on Modification (with & without modifiers), Madrid, December 2011
Semantic factors in the choice between ethnic adjectives and PP counterparts: Qualitative evidence (with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally)
  • QITL-4, Berlin, March 2011

2010
Ereignisartenreferenz im Zustandspassiv
  • Workshop Zugänglichkeit impliziter Ereignisse, University of Tübingen, July 2010  (invited talk)
Aspektuelle Verbalaffixe im Russischen und Tschechischen  [related MA thesis (in German)] 
  • University of Tübingen, February 2010  (invited talk)
Stative passives and event kinds [related SuB paper]  [related OUP paper]
  • McGill University, April 2010  (invited talk)
  • On Linguistic Interfaces II, Belfast, December 2010 (as Passive states)
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 15, Saarbrücken, September 2010
  • Dispositions, Abilities and States, Paris, June 2010
An event structure approach to passives and its implications for acquisition (with Nino Grillo)
  • Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces: Theoretic Modelling and Psycholinguistic Validation, Vienna, June 2010
Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives (with Boban Arsenijevic, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally)  [related CLS paper]
  • 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 2010
  • Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, Nancy, March 2010 (as Unifying the semantics for "thematic" and "classificatory" uses of ethnic adjectives)

2009
Word order and case alternations with PPs as reflexes of complex predicate formation [related PhD thesis] 
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 2009  (invited talk)
  • Workshop on Spatial Expressions, Tromsø, May 2009
Ps in Motion [related PhD thesis] 
  • XXIV Encuentro de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüístas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May 2009  (invited talk)
Event structure and the acquisition of passives (with Nino Grillo)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, March 2009  (invited talk, Gehrke)
  •  7th GLOW in Asia, Hyderabad, February 2009
Nominalizations and nationality expressions: A corpus analysis (with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally
  • 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool, July 2009
The licensing of paths (with Veronika Hegedüs)
  • Workshop on Spatial Expressions, Tromsø, May 2009
Frequency adjectives and assertions about event types  (with Louise McNally)  [related SALT paper]
  • Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 19, Columbus, OH, April 2009
  • 32nd GLOW semantics workshop Modes of Composition, Nantes, April 2009 (as Frequency adjectives and an ontological solution to a compositional problem)

2008
How to Become Passive (with Nino Grillo)  [related de Gruyter paper]
  • University of Stuttgart, December 2008  (invited talk, Gehrke)
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, November 2008  (invited talk)
Accusative Case in PPs (with Boban Arsenijevic)  [related IATL paper]
  • 24th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Jerusalem, October 2008

2007
Ps in Motion: On the semantics and syntax of P elements and motion events [related PhD thesis]
  • University of Nijmegen, June 2007  (invited talk)
Putting Path in Place
  • University of Ulster, April 2007  (invited talk)
  • Leiden Utrecht Semantic Happenings, February 2007  (invited talk)
  • 8th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 2007
Goals and Sources [related John Benjamins paper]
  • TIN-dag in Utrecht, February 2007

2006
One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, cases and adpositions as members of the category P (with Anna Asbury and Veronika Hegedüs) [related UiL-OTS year paper, final draft]  
  • WECOL 2006, Fresno, CA, October 2006
  • LAGB General Meeting, Newcastle, August / September 2006
Changing the perspective on passives (with Nino Grillo)
  • WECOL 2006, Fresno, CA, October 2006
Where is the Path with locative prepositions? [related SuB paper]
  • Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona, September 2006
Results at the edge: An event structure based account of passivization (with Nino Grillo) [related de Gruyter paper]
  • Interface Legibility at the Edge, Bucharest, June 2006
  • InterPhases, Cyprus, May 2006 (as  Results at the edge: A different approach to passives)
Particles, adpositions and cases: A unified analysis (with Anna Asbury)
  • Uiltjesdag, Utrecht, April 2006

2005
On directional readings of locative prepositions  [related ConSOLE paper]
  • ConSOLE XIV, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 2005
Aspects on passives (with Nino Grillo) [related ConSOLE paper]
  • ConSOLE XIV, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 2005
The aspectual nature of Slavic prefixes [related Lingua paper] 
  • LAGB satellite workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity, Cambridge, September 2005
The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry  [related ESSLLI paper] 
  • ESSLLI Workshop on Formal Semantics and Cross-linguistic Data, Edinburgh, August  2005

2004
Teasing apart telicity and grammatical aspect
  • LENCA-2, Kazan', May 2004
Adverbial functions of Slavic prefixes
  • Workshop on Event Structure in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Leipzig, March 2004
How temporal is telicity?
  • 5th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February / March 2004
  • DGfS Workshop on Argument Realization: Conceptual and Grammatical Factors, Mainz, February 2004

2003
Slavic Aspect in narrative discourse [related MA thesis (in German)]    [related paper ms. in English]
  • Uiltjesdagen, Utrecht, April 2003
Differences between Russian and Czech with respect to aspect usage in narrative discourse [related MA thesis (in German)] 
  • Workshop on Grammatical Polysemy: The Case of Russian Imperfective Aspect, Leipzig, February 2003
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