Talks

Selected talks

• ICHL26, 2023 (with Alessia Cassarà, Chantal van Dijk, Holger Hopp): "Marked vs. unmarked unaccusativity with alternating verbs: linking diachronic and experimental data". International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Workshop 13: New methods for old languages: The comparability of data. Heidelberg, September 7, 2023.

• SLE 2023 (with Lieven Danckaert). "Periphrastic passives from Latin to French". Workshop 20: Verbal periphrases in Romance, Athens 29.8.-1.9.2023

• Univ. of Athens / Naxos Summer School (with C. Trips): "Working with the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and French". 8th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics, Naxos, Greece, July 23-29.

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• Invited talk at University of Toronto (with C. Trips): "The development of reflexive strategies in Middle English, verb classes and the contact hypothesis". Department of Linguistics, April 18, 2023.

• SIDF (Colloque de la Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français) 2023 (with Alessia Cassarà): "Variation des diagnostics inaccusatifs dans l’histoire du français." LMU Munich, Germany, March 22-24, 2023.

• Invited talk at University of Pennsylvania (with C. Trips): "Two Passive Puzzles". UPenn Department of Linguistics, March 17, 2023.

• Invited talk at New York University (with C. Trips): "A psycholinguistically-driven approach to language change". New York University LingLunch, March 8, 2023.

• Invited talk at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences: "The role of historical dictionaries in diachronic linguistics" (with Carola Trips), Conference Historical Lexicography in a Digital Age, Kopenhagen 17.-18.11.2022

• ICHL25, 2022: "The development of reflexive strategies in Middle English, verb classes and the contact hypothesis" (with Carola Trips), Oxford, 4.8.2022.

• SLE 2021: Workshop 5 "Cognitive mechanisms driving language change". Convenors: Carola Trips, Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier. Athens, Greece, 30 August – 3 September 2021

• HiCoV 2019, invited keynote talk: "Benefits and problems of annotating historical corpora morphologically and syntactically". Cagliari 4-5.4.2019.

• TASF 2018: "Alternations involving datives in the history of French." The shaping of transitivity and argument structure: theoretical and empirical perspectives. Pavia 25-27.10. 2018.

• FoDS 2018: "The development of the French passive: an event-semantic account". Formal Diachronic Semantics, Oslo, 13-14.9.2018.

• CRH 2018: "Word-level and higher level annotation of the Sardinian Medieval Corpus" (with Nicoletta Puddu), Vienna, 25-26.1.2018.

• DRV 2017: Achim Stein, Carola Trips, Sarah Dessì Schmid, Katrin Axel-Tober: Workshop on Multilinguism and medieval language contact: syntax and semantics of verbs, XXXV. DRV-Romanistentag, Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 October 2017

• LAGB, Canterbury, 4-7 September 2017, themed session: Modelling language acquisition in diachrony

  • (with Shanley Allen) "The development of the English recipient passive considered in the light of psycholinguistic research"

  • (with Yela Schauwecker) "The acquisition of argument-structure across typological boundaries: manner-of-motion verbs in Anglo-French"

• ICHL 23:  "L2 acquisition of Old French structural dative as a trigger for the English recipient passive."  23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July - 4 August 2017

• Diachro VIII: Strasbourg 2.-4.2.2017, Changement syntaxique, contact linguistique et acquisition du langage (invited talk).

• LREC X: Portorož 25.-27.5.2016, 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC):

  • Old French Dependency Parsing: Results of Two Parsers Analysed from a Linguistic Point of View. Poster (pdf) / Paper (pdf)

  • LVF-lemon ― Towards a Linked Data Representation of 'Les verbes français' (Ingrid Falk & Achim Stein). Poster (pdf) / Paper (pdf)

• SLE 2015: Leiden 2.-5.9.2015, 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE): How passive were the English in medieval times? The development of the recipient passive in Middle English as a posssible case of contact-induced change.