Talks/Presentations

'Ibero-Romance prepositional infinitive (el deísmo): microparametric variation in Spanish dialects'. Oral (virtual) presentation at Going Romance 2021. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2nd December 2021.

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'Ibero-Romance complementation: historical-comparative microvariation (el deísmo). Oral (virtual) presentation at Workshop on Expanding Romance Linguistics: Crossing the Boundaries. University of Graz, Austria, 24th July 2021.

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'Chinese (ad)nominalisation: sublexical featural microvariation'. Oral (virtual) presentation at the 2021 KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 22nd-24th April 2021.

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'Microvariation in the Chinese nominal domain: mapping formal and dialectal cartography from historical corpora and social media (WeChat)'. Oral (virtual) presentation at Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in the 21st century (MVC21), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 17th-18th March 2021.

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'Sinitic nominalisation: microvariation and dialect levelling'. Oral (virtual) presentation at the 24th International Conference on Yue Dialects (第二十四届國際粵方言研討會), University of Macau, Macau, China, 13th November 2020.

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'Event Structure and Differential Object Marking: Perspectives from Romance and Chinese'. Oral (virtual) presentation at the Workshop on Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar (EESLiG), University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 16th September 2020.

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'Nominal and Verbal Parameters in Differential Object Marking: Romance ad and Chinese ba'. Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, 2nd January 2020.

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'Sinitic adnominalisers de vs ge: nominal microvariation in event structure'. Oral presentation at the Third International Symposium of Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-3), University College of Cork, Ireland, 14th December 2019.

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'Chinese Voice: Applicatives and Argument Alternations'. Oral presentation at the Third International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC2019), Beijing Language and Culture University, 25th-27th October 2019.

Philological Society Martin Burr Funding summary report.

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'Cantonese ge'. Oral presentation at the Second Forum in Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-2), in conjunction with the School of Cantonese Studies, Education University of Hong Kong, 1st June 2019.

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'Chinese ba and bei: Co-Verbs, Light Verbs, Voice and Argument Alternations'. Paper presentation at the 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-8), School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 24th November 2018.

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'Microvariation in Western Romance Differential Object Marking (ad): synchrony and diachrony'. Oral presentation at Differential Object Marking in Romance- Towards Microvariation, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 9th November 2018.

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'Chinese Voice: ba and bei'. Poster presentation at the International Forum on Frontiers in Linguistics (IFFL), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, 30th October 2018.

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'Formation of Chinese clefts: microparametric 'lateral' grammaticalization'. Poster presentation at the Third Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum (BEAL-3), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 22nd October 2018.

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'Formalist and functionalist factors in parameter-resetting: a creative compromise', Oral presentation at the Workshop on 'Learnability in a Parametric World', Romance Turn IX, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, 1st September 2018.

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'Chinese ba: new Voice head and Voice alternations', Oral presentation at the 31st Paris Meeting in East Asian Linguistics (JLAO), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 28th June 2018.

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'Formation of Cantonese clefts', Oral presentation at the First Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-1), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 31st May 2018.

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'Formal convergence and divergence: creative parametric (re)setting in Latin/Romance syntactic change', Oral presentation at the Workshop 'Romance Diachrony at the Interfaces', Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), University of York, Toronto, Canada, 25th April 2018.

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'Western Romance Differential Object Marking (ad): analogical generalization and feature 'simplification'. Oral Presentation at the 21st Annual Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 30th March 2018.

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'Formation of Chinese shi-de constructions (Mandarin and dialects)', Oral presentation at the Second International Symposium of Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-2), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 16th December 2017.

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'Diachrony of Differential Object Marking: creative parametric microvariation of semantic features’, Oral presentation at the International Workshop: Diachrony of Differential Object Marking, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, 17th November 2017.

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‘Formation of Chinese shi-de constructions’, Oral presentation at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the International Assocation of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungarian, 25^th June 2017.

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‘Standard’ grammaticalization and ‘lateral’ grammaticalization: weakening (or not) of functional elements- a revised view of co-evolution of meaning and form’. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions (VCC), University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, Wednesday 26^th October 2016.

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‘Chinese copula shi’, Oral presentation at the inaugural International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-1), The Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS), Newcastle University, 10^th December 2015.

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‘Latin ad as a Romance Case-marker: differential object marking, Minimalism, formalism/functionalism’, Oral presentation at Going Romance 2013, University of Amsterdam, Friday 29^th November 2013.

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‘Chinese ba: grammaticalization, ‘lateral’ grammaticalization, and Case Theory’, Poster presentation at the Twenty-Fifth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Saturday 22^nd June 2013.

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‘The formation of Spanish prepositional objects’. Oral presentation at the Association of Hispanists in Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, Monday 25^th March 2013.

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‘(Proto-)Romance prepositional infinitives and modal verbs: a typological comparison with English modal verbs and to-infinitive’. Oral presentation at the Modern Languages Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Session on Comparative Romance Linguistics, Boston, 5th January 2013.

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‘(Proto-)Romance prepositional infinitives and modal verbs’, Oral presentation at the Tenth International Conference on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin Vulgaire-Latin Tardif (LVLT X)), University of Bergamo, Friday 7^th September 2012.

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‘What is ‘lateral’ grammaticalization? Chinese de and shi’, Oral presentation at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-20), Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Thursday 30^th August 2012.

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‘The Italo-Celtic question: did Italo-Celtic exist?’, Poster presentation at the Seventh Celtic linguistics conference (CLC7), University of Rennes, Friday 22^nd June 2012.

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Biolinguistics and Language Evolution: What is Linguistic Simplicity?' Oral (virtual) presentation at the Ronin Public Seminar, 6th November 2020.

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'What is D in DOM (Differential Object Marking)?' Oral (virtual) presentation at the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Virtual Colloquium, 11th September 2020.

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'Formation of (proto-)Romance non-finite complementation: a tale of two prepositions (and more)'. Oral presentation at the Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS), Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 5th January 2018.

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‘Chinese shi-de constructions’, Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute, University of Kentucky, United States, 9^th July 2017.

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‘Loss and gain of features in syntactic change’. Oral presentation at the PhD course: Loss and Gain in Language, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, Thursday 21^st May 2015.

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‘(Ibero-)Romance Case-markers'. Oral presentation at the 2nd Cambridge Colloquium on the ‘Histories of the Ibero-Romance Languages', Norman MacColl Symposium 2012, Queens' College, University of Cambridge, Thursday 29^th March 2012.

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