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.

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