Plenary talks
Datum |
Venue |
Titel |
07.-08.03. 2013 |
International Symposium 'Paradigm change in historical reconstruction: the Transeurasian languages and beyond’, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz |
Fusional morphology in Niger Congo and Bantu: addressing a historical-comparative problem |
11.-12.12 2012 |
KNAW Conference 'Patterns of Diversification and Contact: A Global Approach', Amsterdam |
Latitudinal spread effects in Africa and beyond (with Harald Hammarström) |
06.-08.06. 2012 |
Workshop 'Khoisan kinship and society revisited' at the CAS 50th Anniversary Conference Edinburgh |
"Khoisan" linguistics: changing perspectives between unity and diversity |
11.-13.11. 2010 |
International Conference 'Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification', Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts Brussels |
Re-lexicalization within grammatical constructions |
24.-26.02. 2010 |
32. Annual Meeting of the DGfS, Workshop: "'von endlichen Mitteln einen unendlichen Gebrauch machen' - Recursion as a Central Issue in Recent Linguistics", HU Berlin |
The syntax of reported discourse from a typological perspective: embedding or not? |
11. 2009 |
International APiCS conference, MPI-EVA Leipzig |
Areal typology in Africa and its significance for the history of creoles |
09.-12.09. 2009 |
International Workshop 'Quotative markers: origin and use', 42nd Annual Meeting of the SLE, Universidade de Lisboa |
Direct reported discourse as a sub-domain of mimesis and the history of quotative markers |
17.-18.11. 2008 |
International Symposium 'Globality, Locality and Contact - Languages and Culture', Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki |
Linguistic macro-areas in Africa: Geography and population dynamics |
14.-15.11. 2008 |
International Workshop 'Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus: Similarities and Differences', Universität Potsdam |
The relation between predicate operator focus and theticity: How preverbal clause operators in Bantu betray functional affinity |
02.-05.10. 2008 |
International conference 'Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics' (Universität Leipzig, MPI-EVA), MPI-EVA Leipzig |
How typology can inform philology: quotative jn in Earlier Egyptian |
03.-05.07. 2008 |
'ACBPLE Annual Conference', Universidade Nova Lisboa |
Quotative-complementizers in Atlantic creoles: universal grammaticalization and African substrates |
26.03.-04.04. 2008 |
'International Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity' (Universität Leipzig, MPI-EVA Leipzig, MPI-HCBS Leipzig), Universität Leipzig |
African macro-areas and geography |
04.-06.10. 2007 |
International Conference on 'Bantu languages: analysis, description and theory', University of Gothenburg |
Bantu in its macro-areal context of Africa and implications for the early typology of Bantu and Niger-Congo |
20.-28.09. 2007 |
7th International Conference of the 'Association of Linguistic Typology' (ALT VII), Workshop on the typology of African Languages, CNRS Paris |
Areal typology in Africa |
20.-28.03. 2006 |
'International Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity' (Universität Leipzig, MPI-EVA Leipzig, MPI-HCBS Leipzig), Universität Leipzig |
Clicks, genetics, and 'proto-world' from a linguistic perspective |
06.-08.07. 2005 |
Combined Annual Conference of the 'Linguistic Society of Southern Africa (LSSA)' and the 'Southern African Applied Linguistics Association (SAALA)', University of Pretoria |
A forgotten heritage? - southern African Khoisan and its importance for modern linguistic research |
04.-07.07. 2005 |
13th International Conference of the 'African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA)', University of Johannesburg |
A forgotten heritage? - southern African Khoisan and its importance for modern linguistic research |