Talks
11/05/2019: "Tool intelligence as an explanation of cross-linguistic variation and family resemblance," Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Europäische Sprachen (iZEUS), Freie Universität Berlin
04/19/2018 (with Ferdinand von Mengden): "Recontextualization: the dynamics of language behavior and change." 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang12), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, 16-19 April
09/27/2017: "Genre discontinuism: grounding language as an activity with a referential component," Meaning without Representation: Grounding Language in Sensorimotor Coordination (CHIAS V/LangEnact II), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 25-27 September
06/07/2017: "Linguistic functionalism: a look into the past," Research Seminar by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand von Mengden, Freie Universität Berlin
07/20/2016: "Intentionality versus embodiment: Where linguistic functionalism goes wrong," The First International Conference of Cultural Linguistics (ICCL), Prato/Tuscany, 20-22 July ***funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
10/28/2015: "Intentionalität vor Sozialität: Die Probleme einer sozialen Intelligenzhypothese in Anwendung auf Sprache." Research Seminar by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand von Mengden, Freie Universität Berlin.
07/31/2015 "Asymmetrical biases in the usage of the German spatial expression Richtung ‘direction’," Workshop 'Space in diachrony: asymmetries in the space domain and their developments', 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22), Naples, 27-31 July ***funded by the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft e.V.
01/09/2015 "A time of change: The recent history of the German temporal adverb zeitnah 'promptly; very soon'," Session 396. The Matter of Words: Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2015 MLA Convention (MLA = Modern Language Association), Vancouver, 8-11 January
01/08/2015 "Cognition in interaction: Substantiating context in language use and grammaticalization," Session 141. Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, 2015 MLA Convention (MLA = Modern Language Association), Vancouver, 8-11 January
09/05/2014 "Variation that matters: Substantiating the cultural hypothesis of language," From Theory to Practice 2014, Fifth International Conference on Anglophone Studies, Tomas Bata University in Zlín (Czech Republic), 4-5 September
07/03/2014 "Mit <zeitnah(e)> von der Gegenwart bis in die Zukunft durch funktionale Rekontextualisierung" 21. LIPP-Symposium 'Sprachinnovation: Motivation - Erscheinungsformen - Verlauf,' LMU München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich 2-4 July
04/16/2014 "Patterns of variation in language and tool use: An ethnographic and comparative approach" 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang10), Universität Wien, Vienna 14-17 April ***funded by the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft e.V.
04/14/2014 (with Ferdinand von Mengden): "The concept of 'Emergent Grammar' and its potential for Evolutionary Linguistics" Workshop 'Evolutionary linguistics and historical language studies', 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang10), Universität Wien, Vienna 14-17 April ***funded by the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft e.V.
08/16/2013 "Schematizing cross-linguistic variation: the case of reciprocal constructions" Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT10), Leipzig 15-18 August
11/20/2012 "Cross-linguistic diversity and patterns of variation in primate tool use: drawing the analogy" Linguistics Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
07/09/2012 "The expression of reciprocity cross-linguistically" Research Seminar by Ferdinand von Mengden, Institute for English Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin
05/28/2010 "Reciprocity in Ku Waru" Social Cognition Workshop, Australian National University, Kioloa Coastal Campus 28-30 May
12/18/2009 "Reciprocal predicates in Ngayarda languages" Workshop on Complexities of Grammar, Australian National University, Canberra 18 December
11/12/2009 "The use of reciprocals in two Australian languages: Yidiny and Jiwarli" Linguistics, Languages and Cultures Graduate Conference, Australian National University, Canberra 12-13 November
12/01/2007 (with Ekkehard König): "Concepts of Reciprocity in Linguistics and other Fields" Conference on Reciprocals Cross-linguistically, Freie Universität Berlin, 30 November - 2 December