Feel free to ask me for a copy of any hand-out or material not available below! (you can contact me at f.e.martin@uu.nl)
Invited talks
01/2025 Workshop Causer/Causee, Cologne. TBA.
03/2024 Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC), Cambridge/Newcastle. The ‘no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined.
07/2023 Crete Summer School in Linguistics. Undercompression errors in child language. English past tense formation (J. Hein, I. Driemel, F. Martin, Y. Nie, A. Alexiadou)
06/2023 Forschungscolloquium Romanistische Sprachwissenschaft, FU Berlin. Anticausatives as weak scalar expressions. Experimental evidence from French, English and German (F. Martin, F. Schäfer, D. Oikonomou, F. Golcher, A. Alexiadou).
06/2023 Annual International Conference of the English Department, Bucharest. Burning facts (F. Martin, D. Rose, S. Nichols)
09/2022 Time in Translation final Workshop, Utrecht.Commentary on Jean-Pierre Koenig's talk.
07/2022 IGRA Program, Leipzig. Redundant errors in child language (J. Hein, I. Driemel, Y. Nie, F. Martin & A. Alexiadou)
06/2022 SynSem Seminar, LLING, Nantes. Scaling agents via dimensions.
12/2021 Ben Gurion University, Department colloquium in Linguistics. Agency as a gradable multi-dimensional concept.
06/2021 Com(parative) Syn(tax) lecture series, Leiden University (online). Requiem for /a/ theme (joint work with I. Kastner).
05/2021 Centre de Lingüística Teòrica research seminar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (online). Monomorphemic verbs in Mandarin Chinese: Lexical aspect, event structure and non-culminating uses.
02/2021 Universität Tübingen. Tandem talk (online). On non-literal readings of noun phrases. The case of pancake subjects. (joint work with J. Carvalho and A. Alexiadou).
02/2021 Grup de Lingüística Formal research seminar, U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (online). On non-literal readings of noun phrases. The case of pancake subjects. (joint work with J. Carvalho and A. Alexiadou).
02/2021 HHU Düsseldorf. Workshop on causativity. (with I. Kastner). The inchoative suffix /i(s)/ in French. An experimental study.
12/2020 (cancelled because of the covid pandemic) Research Center on Basque Language IKER, Bayonne. Workshop on the Argument Structure of Adverbs and Prepositions/Adjectives and Participles (WASAAP 2020).
11/2020 HUJI Linguistics Colloquium, Jerusalem (via Zoom). Goal-PPs in English, German and French
09/2020 Université de Genève. Les verbes modaux à lecture implicative et non-implicative.
07/2020 (cancelled because of the covid pandemic) CreteLing 2020 Modality Workshop.
11/2019 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Workshop Event Semantics Workshop. ‘Non-culminating telic path descriptions’ (with. Grant, F. Schäfer & C. Piñón)
05/2019 National University of Singapore, Workshop Recent approaches to (non-)agentivity in natural language. ‘Aspectual differences between agentive and non-agentive uses of causative predicates.’ (see also the related paper on the publication page)
11/2019 Université de Paris 8, OASIS 1, Invited Panel, The acquisition of counterfactuality (talk: interpretation and acquisition of counterfactuals: some puzzles and research questions)
01/2018 University of the Basque Country, Workshop Unergative predicates: architecture and variation. `Behavior-related unergative verbs from nouns' (with C. Pinon)
07/2017 Universität Göttingen, Ober Seminar in English Linguistics. ‘Towards a more fine-grained typology of perfective operators’ (with Z. Gyarmathy).’
06/2017 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Workshop Linguistic perspectives on causation, ‘Necessity and sufficiency in lexical causative verbs’.
11/2016 Universität zu Köln, Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln, ‘Non adult-like children interpretations of telic predicates across languages’.
01/2016 Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, SFB Kolloquium, ‘Agentivity and non-culminating construals’.
01/2016 Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Semantics and Pragmatics Circle, ‘Tense and aspect in subjunctive conditionals'.
11/2015 Universität zu Köln, Workshop Agentivity and Causation in Romance, ‘Agents, causers, and non-culminating construals.’
05/2015 Université de Nantes, Séminaire du LLING, ‘Explaining the link between agentivity and non-culmination’.
09/2014 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Seminario de Investigación sobre Tiempo y Aspecto: los Estados y la Estatividad. ‘Relative vs. absolute states: aspectual polysemy of dispositional adjectives’.
05/2014 Université Paris 8, Séminaire sur la causalité et la cognition. ‘How not to culminate’ (with H. Demirdache).
03/2014 Universidad de Alicante, Aspect and Verb Classes. ‘Agent control over non-culminating events’ ((with H. Demirdache).
06/2013 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, JeNom 5. ‘Behavior-related verbs from nouns’(with C. Piñón).
02/2013 Universität Stuttgart, Adjectives and their Nominalizations. ‘Decomposing (non-)restrictivity. Evaluative adjectives in post-head position’.
06/2012 Université de Paris 8, Projets de la Fédération TUL et UMR 7023 Structures formelles du langage. ‘The modality of ‘offer’ and other defeasible causative verbs’ ((with F. Schäfer).
04/2012 Stanford University, Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop. ‘On defeasible causatives’ (with F. Schäfer).
05/2012 Université Paris 7, Séminaire de la Fédération 2559 du CNRS, Typologie et Universaux linguistiques. ‘Hyponymie verbale et coordination en français’.
11/2011 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Berufungs- verfahrens zur Besetzung der W2-Professur Romanische Sprachen. ‘Epistemische Modalverben in der Vergangenheit’.
10/2011 Lunds Universitet, Grammar Seminar. ‘On the argument structure of (non-)prospective causatives’ (with F. Schäfer).
12/2009 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Mini-Workshop on Nominalizations. ‘Stage-level and Individual-level nominalizations’.
12/2009 Université Toulouse le Mirail, Séminaire CLLE/ERSS. ‘Epistemic modals in the past’.
03/2009 Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Séminaire Générité. ‘Generic (in)-definites and the analytic/synthetic distinction’ (with Alda Mari).
03/2009 Université Paris 8, Séminaire Temporalité: Typologie et Acquisition, CNRS. ‘Interaction between aspect and verbal polysemy:(im-)perfectivity and (non-) implicativity’ (with Alda Mari).
03/2007 ENS, Paris, Semantics in Paris 2: Semantics beyond Set Theory. ‘Tense and actuality entailment’ (with Alda Mari).
03/2007 ENS, Paris, Semantics in Paris 1: New advances on Plurality. ‘Existential ‘des N’ and stative predicates’.
01/2007 Universität Tübingen, Gastvortrag von dem SFB 441. ‘Polysemy in the psychological domain’.
06/2006 Universität Stuttgart, Gastvortrag von dem Graduiertenkolleg. ‘Psych-Verbs and agento-riented adverbs’.
05/2006 Leiden Universiteit, Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings. ‘Psych-verbs and agent-oriented adverbs’.
Presentations at peer-reviewed conferences and workshops
06/2024 ELM3. The ‘no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined (F. Martin, F. Schäfer, D. Oikonomu, F. Golcher, A. Alexiadou)
09/2024 GALA 16, Lisbon. Does occluding the agent's body affect Italian children's production of argument structure? (C. Dal Farra, S. Silleresi, F. Martin,Y. Nie,, A. Alexiadou, M-T Guasti).
09/2024 GALA 16, Lisbon. Overt PAST on irregular verbs in child English due to secondary feature negligence (J. Hein, I. Driemel, F. Martin, Y. Nie, A. Alexiadou).
01/2024 LSA, NY City, The case of faire se in French and Italian (Y. Nie, F. Martin, C. Dal Farra, S. Silleresi).
12/2023 Going Romance, Nijmegen. A prepositional cycle in French (F. Martin, Y. Nie, A. Alexiadou)
10/2023 OASIS3/SPE12, Nice. Burning facts (F. Martin, D. Rose, S. Nichols)
09/2023 LAGB,Cambridge, The lexical pragmatics of French anticausatives and reflexive se (F. Martin, F. Schäfer, I. Kastner)
01/2023 LSA, Denver, Agent bias in child Italian event descriptions (F. Martin, Y. Nie, S. Silleresi, C. Dal Farra, A. Alexiadou and M-T Guasti).
11/2022 BUCLD 47, Boston, The agent bias hold in production too: event descriptions in child Italian (S. Silleresi, C. Dal Farra, Y. Nie, F. Martin, A. Alexiadou and M-T Guasti).
10/2022 Heritage language syntax 3, Paris, Commissive productions in child heritage language: A case study on child heritage French in Germany (F. Martin, A. Alexiadou)
09/2022 LAGB 2022, Belfast. What do children do with do? Superfluous do as a marker of agency in child English. Session Agents: grammar or roots? LAGB 2022, Ulster (I. Ilić, F. Martin, A. Alexiadou)
09/2022 GALA 2022, Frankfurt. Bigger is better! Older Italian children prefer heavy locative prepositions (C. Dal Farra, F. Martin, Y. Nie, M.-T. Guasti and A. Alexiadou)
07/2022 CogSci 22, Toronto. No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language (S. Joo, S. Yousif, F. Martin, F. Keil and J. Knobe).
05/2022 WCCFL40, Stanford. Minimizing and maximizing exponence in child language (with J. Hein, Y. Nie and A. Alexiadou)
05/2022 ELM2 @ UPenn. Does causality matter? Impressions of agency influence judgments of both causal and non-causal sentences (S. Joo, S. Yousif, F. Martin, F. Keil and J. Knobe, also presented in AIL2).
05/2022 Workshop The syntax of causative, perception and restructuring verbs in Romance and Latin University of Palermo. Who did it? How alternating verbs are interpreted under faire, talk at SCUP22, (with C. Dal Farra, Y. Nie, S. Silleresi).
12/2021 BUCLD 45, Boston University. Wearing Causation on its Sleeve: Overt cause in Child French Causatives (with Y Nie, A. Alexiadou, and M-T. Guasti)
12/2021 Going Romance 35, University of Amsterdam. Variation in the actuality inference of circumstantial modals in French (with L. Backes, D. Bondarenko and Y. Nie)
05/2021 LSRL 46, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Optional se constructions and flavours of applicatives in Spanish (with S. Arunachalam).
02/2021 Newcastle University (research seminar). Conjugation classes as an epiphenomenon. The suffix /i(s)/ in French (with I. Kastner)
12/2020 Going Romance 34, Paris 8 (online). Dissolving the French conjugation classes (with I. Kastner).
09/2020 Sinn und Bedeutung 25, UCL (online), Why can one kill Rasputin twice in Mandarin? (with H. Sun, H. Demirdache, J. Liu)
08/2020 SALT 30, Cornell University (online), A new case of low modality: goal PPs (with M. Grant, F. Schäfer & C. Piñón).
07/2020 TripleA7, Tübingen University (online). Causative vs. non-causative simple verbs and failed attempts in Mandarin Chinese (with H. Sun, H. Demirdache, J. Liu)
10/2019 OASIS 2, Université de Nantes. ‘Non-culminating telic path descriptions' (with M. Grant, F. Schäfer & C. Piñón).
10/2019 OASIS 2, Université de Nantes. ‘Pieces of meaning in unexpected places: wug-ir and wug-er nonce verbs receive a different default semantics in French’ (poster, with I. Kastner).
09/2019 GALA 2019, Milan. ‘Children’s non-adultlike interpretations of telic predicates across languages’ (poster, with H. Demirdache, I. Garciá del Real, A. van Hout & N. Kazanina).
02/2018 Linguistic Evidence 2018 — Experimental data drives linguistic theory, Universität Tübingen. ‘Cross-linguistic interplay of lexical aspect and (non-)literalness’ (poster, with I. Falk, M. Köper, S. Springorum, S. Schulte Im Walde & A. Stein).
11/2017 Conférence de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, ENS, Paris. ‘A more fine-grained typology of perfective operators.’ (with Z. Gyarmathy)
09/2017 Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Humboldt Universität Berlin, ZAS & Universität Potsdam. ‘Necessary and sufficient conditions in lexical causative verbs.’
09/2017 IWCS 12, Université de Montpellier. ‘Towards an inferential lexicon of event-selecting predicates for French’ (with I. Falk)
04/2017 EACL Workshop Computational Semantics beyond Events and Roles, EACL, University of Valencia. ‘Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank.’ (with I. Falk)
06/2017 Roots 2017. Queen Mary University, London. ‘Optionally causative manner verbs: when implied results get entailed.’ (with A. Alexiadou & F. Schäfer)
11/2016 BUCLD 41, Boston University. ‘Agent Control and the Acquisition of Event Culmination in Basque, Dutch, English, Spanish and Mandarin’, poster. (with A. van Hout, M. Arche, I. Garcia del Real, A. Garcia Sanz, A. Gavarro, L. Gomez Marzo, S. Hommes, N. Kazanina, J. Liu, O. Lungu, I.M. Strangmann)
02/2016 AG 3 Agentivity and event structure: theoretical and experimental approaches, DGFS 2016, Universität Konstanz. ‘Atypical agents and non-culminating events’.
02/2016 AG 3 Agentivity and event structure: theoretical and experimental approaches, DGFS 2016, Universität Konstanz. ‘Testing the Agent Control Hypothesis with non-culminating events. Experimental evidence from Adult Dutch and Mandarin’. (with H. Demirdache, A. van Hout, J. Liu, I. Strangmann)
12/2015 Amsterdam Colloquium 20, Universiteit Amsterdam. ‘The imperfective in subjunctive conditionals: fake or real aspect?’
10/2015 NELS 46, Concordia University, Montreal. ‘The fake imperfective aspect in subjunctive conditionals is real’.
09/2015 Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Universität Tübingen. ‘Behavior-related unergative verbs’. (Poster, with C. Piñón)
05/2015 Semantic and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25, Stanford University. ‘Explaining the link between agentivity and non-culminating causation’.
03/2015 Modelling Conditionality, DGFS 2015 Workshop, Universität Leipzig. ‘Tense and Aspect in Swing Conditionals’.
09/2013 Morphology and its interfaces, Université Lille 3. ‘Transitivizing Affixes in French’ (with N. Mazziotta).
06/2013 XXVIIe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes, Université de Nancy. ‘Affixes transitivisants en français’(with N. Mazziotta).
04/2013 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, NY Cuny. ‘Non-Counterfactual Past Subjunctive Conditionals in French’.
04/2013 49th Chicago Linguistic Society Meeting. ‘Antecedent under Discussion in French Past Subjunctive Conditionals’.
03/2013 Perspectives on Argument Alternations, DGfS 2013 Workshop, Universität Potsdam. ‘Marked and unmarked anticausatives do not differ in meaning: a French case study’ (with F. Schäfer).
11/2012 2d Fall Meeting in Formal Linguistics, Université Paris 8. ‘French anticausatives do not differ in meaning but they compete’ (with F. Schäfer).
08/2012 Socieatas Linguistica Europaea, University Stockholm. ‘On the realization of external arguments in nominalizations. A cross-linguistic perspective’ (with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordăchioaia & F. Schäfer).
06/2012 Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles, University of Greenwich. ‘How deadjectival verbs entail their adjectival basis’ (with L. Tovena).
05/2012 Debrecen Workshop on Argument Structure. ‘External arguments in derived nominals’ (with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordăchioaia & F. Schäfer).
04/2012 Chicago Linguistic Society Meeting. ‘Direct participation effects in derived nominals’ (with A. Alexiadou, G. Iordăchioaia & F. Schäfer).
04/2012 Workshop on Modality, University of Ottawa. ‘The modality of ‘offer’ and other prospective verbs’ (with F. Schäfer).
04/2012 WCCFL 30, University of Santa Cruz. ‘The modality of ‘offer’ and other prospective verbs’ (with F. Schäfer).
12/2011 Workshop on Modification, Madrid Research Center. ‘Decomposing (non)restrictivity. Evaluative modifiers in post-head positions’.
11/2011 NELS 42, University of Toronto. ‘Elastic verbs with bi- and mono-eventive uses’ (Poster, with F. Schäfer)).
10/2011 Workshop on Verbal Elasticity, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. ‘Elastic verbs with bi- and mono-eventive uses: (non-)prospective causatives’ (with F. Schäfer).
09/2011 Workshop Structuring the Argument, Paris 8. ‘On the argument structure of (non-)prospective causatives’ (with F. Schäfer).
09/2011 8th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, University of Cagliari. ‘Competing Affixes as Aspectual Morphemes: The Case of Deadjectival Nominalizations’ (Poster, with A. Alexiadou).
02/2011 Chronos 10, Aston University, ‘Relative Stupidity and Past tenses’.
02/2011 Workshop Implicatures and Discourse Structure, DGFS Meeting, Universität Göttingen, ‘Elaboration and Additive Markers’.
12/2010 Going Romance 2010, Universiteit Leiden. ‘Stage-level and Individual-level Readings of Quality Nouns’.
12/2010 Décembrettes 7, Université de Toulouse. ‘Stage-level and Individual-level Readings of Quality Nouns’.
10/2010 26th Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tel-Aviv. ‘Epistemic Modals and Past Tenses’.
10/2010 Fall Meeting in Formal Linguistics, Université Paris 8. ‘Relative Stupidity and Past Tenses’.
12/2009 Going Romance 2009, Université de Nice. ‘Epistemic Modals in the Past’.
09/2009 Chronos 9, Université de Paris 7. ‘Non-distributive Stative Predicates’.
05/2009 Genericity Conference I, Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure. ‘Generic (in)-definites and the analytic/ synthetic distinction’ (with A. Mari).
01/2009 Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics, Universiteit Tilburg. ‘Disambiguation of Polysemous Verbs for Rule-based Inferencing’ (with D. Spohr & A. Stein).
12/2008 Going Romance 2008, Universiteit Groningen. ‘Generic (in)-definites and the analytic/ synthetic distinction’ (with A. Mari).
09/2008 Konvens 2008, Universität Berlin. ‘Representing a Resource of Formal Lexical-Semantic Descriptions in OWL’ (with D. Spohr & A. Stein).
04/2008 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Urbana-Champaign.‘Generic (in)-definites and the analytic/synthetic distinction’. (Poster, with A. Mari)
04/2008 Formal Semantics in Moscow 3. ‘The Semantics of Eventive Suffixes in French’.
12/2007 Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium. ‘Tense, Abilities and Actuality Entailment’ (with A. Mari).
12/2007 Going Romance 2007, Universiteit Amsterdam. ‘Perfective and imperfective in French. Kinds of abilities and actuality entailment’ (with A. Mari).
09/2007 Les Adjectifs, Université Lille 3. ‘On the distribution of the imparfait with stage level predicates in French’.
07/2007 Funny Indefinites, ZAS, Berlin. ‘A certain N vs A particular N. Evidence from French’.
03/2007 Polysemy and Conceptual Representation, DGFS 2007 Workshop, Universität Siegen. ‘Polysemy in the Psychological Domain’.
01/2007 Forces in Grammatical Structures, Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure. ‘’Non-agentive’ Verbs Presupposing an event. Psych-verbs and Agent-oriented Adverbs’.
11/2006 Deuxième atelier franco-allemand de linguistique Paris VIII & Stuttgart, Université Paris 8. ‘Les prédicats d’état au progressif’.
09/2006 Chronos 7, Universiteit Antwerpen. ‘Achèvements droits versus accomplissements strictement forts’.
03/2006 Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, Université de Bordeaux. ‘Deux types de stage level predicates’.