Presentations
2014 | Voldemort phrases in generic sentences -- seemingly impersonal uses of 3rd person singular pronouns. Presented at the Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Göttingen, December 16, Göttingen, Germany. (Slides) |
"Er ging als Kind schon nicht gern zu Fuß" -- Zur Interaktion von nominalen 'als'-Phrasen mit logischen Operatoren. Presented at the Forschungskolloquium German Linguistics, December 10, Tübingen, Germany. (German Slides) | |
On the non-uniformity of pronouns: 1st sg, 2nd sg, and impersonal pronouns. Presented at Pronouns@Tübingen2, Special Session: "On the non-uniformity of pronouns", November 8, Tübingen, Germany. (Handout) | |
Voldemort phrases in generic sentences -- seemingly impersonal uses of 3rd person singular pronouns. Presented at SinFonIJA VII (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz), September 26, Graz, Austria. (Slides) | |
Hyperintensionalität. Guest presentation at "Formale Semantik und Intensionalität" (Instructor: Edgar Onea), University of Göttingen, June 19, Göttingen, Germany. | |
Eingeschränkte Prädikation: "als"-Phrasen und "as"-Phrasen. Presented at the Forschungskolloquium German Linguistics, University of Tübingen, January 15, Tübingen, Germany. | |
2013 | Formalizing impersonally used personal pronouns. Presented at the Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Tübingen, December 17, Tübingen, Germany. |
Two Issues Related to Impersonally Used Personal Pronouns. Presented at "The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation" at the panel discussion "Current Pronominal Issues at the Syntax-Semantics Interface", November 16, Tübingen, Germany. | |
(with Eva Csipak) A condition on the distribution of discourse particles across types of questions. Poster presented at NELS 44 (University of Connecticut), October 19, Storrs, CT, USA. (Poster) | |
Impersonal 'ich', discourse particles, and the utterance context. Poster presented at "Text in Perspective: Processing and Interpretation" (CRC "Text Structures"), May 30, Göttingen, Germany. (Poster) | |
On the connection between impersonaly interpreted personal pronouns and discourse particles. Presented at the University of Stuttgart, April 18, Stuttgart, Germany. | |
Negated generic sentences. Presented at 14th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, March 1, Szklarska Poreba, Poland. | |
2012 | Genericity and the interaction with non-epistemic modality. Presented at the English Seminar at the University of Göttingen, November 27, Göttingen, Germany. |
On the semantic and pragmatic aspects of impersonal pronominal meaning. Presented at Journee Impersonnels at CNRS/Paris8, November 8, Paris, France. (Handout) | |
Impersonally Interpreted Personal Pronouns. Defense, October 29, Göttingen, Germany. | |
2011 | The connection between German discourse particles and impersonally interpreted personal pronouns. Presented at Workshop on Speech Acts and Particles 2, October 14, Hongkong, China. (Handout) |
Arguments for a two-operator analysis of impersonal pronouns in modal sentences. Alternate talk (not presented) at Journee Impersonnels at CNRS/Paris8, September 20, Paris, France. (Handout) | |
Diagnosing the intensional contexts found with impersonally interpreted pronouns. Presented at University of Konstanz, July 21, Konstanz, Germany. | |
Die impersonale Verwendung von Personalpronomen. Presented at the University of Göttingen (German Department), June 9, Göttingen, Germany. | |
Against a purely feature based analysis of pronominal meaning. Poster presented at 34th annual GLOW-colloquium, April 29, Vienna, Austria. | |
On the semantics of German adnominal and adverbial 'als'-phrases. Presented at 12th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, March 11, Szklarska Poreba, Poland. | |
The Problem of Impersonally Used Personal Pronouns. Presented at Northwestern University, February 10, Evanston, IL, USA. | |
2010 | Deutsche 'als'-Phrasen und englische 'as'-Phrasen im Vergleich. Presented at the semantics colloquium at University of Frankfurt, December 2, Frankfurt, Germany. (German handout) |
German Impersonal Pronouns: Pragmatic and Semantic Differences. Presented at NASSLLI Student Session, June 26, Bloomington IN, USA. | |
Pragmatic effects of German impersonal 'ich' and 'du'. Presented at Between you and me: local pronouns across modalities, June 7, Nijmegen, Netherlands. | |
Deutsche impersonal verwendete Pronomen im Vergleich. Presented at the 2. Semantik und Pragmatik im Südwesten, May 29, Göttingen, Germany. | |
German impersonal 'ich' and 'du' in discourse. Presented at the 1st International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at the University of Cyprus (LoT), May 7, Nicosia, Cyprus. | |
On a special use of German 'ich' in modal contexts. Presented at 11th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, March 13, Szklarska Poreba, Poland. | |
2009 | Non-indexical uses of 1st person singular pronouns. Presented at LENLS VI, November 19th, Tokyo, Japan. |
2008 | Lizensierung von Antecedent-Contained Deletion. Presented at 1st Student Conference Graz, December 12th, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. |
Embedded Antecedent-Contained Deletion. Presented at 36th Austrian Linguistics Conference, December 7th, University of Vienna, Austria. | |
Licensing ACD. Presented at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, October 21st, Germany. |