upcoming - A focus mismatch: free vs. subcategorized indirect objects in Spanish” (with Steffen Heidinger). 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki.

2024 - The `no-agent' scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined (with Despina Oikonomou, Fabienne Martin, Felix Golcher & Artemis Alexiadou). The third Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, University of Pennsylvania.

2023 - Anticausatives as weak scalar expressions: Evidence from French, German and English (Joint work with F. Martin, D. Oikonomou, F. Golcher & A. Alexiadou). LingBaW John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

2023 - The lexical pragmatics of French anticausative and reflexive SE (with Fabienne Martin and Itamar Kastner). LAGB 2023, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

2022 - Transitive anticausatives: An argument for expletive Voice. Workshop 'The Syntax of Small Objects', Universität Hamburg.

2022 - Transitive anticausatives. Colloquium, Universität Stuttgart.

2022 - Transitive anticausatives: a new argument for expletive Voice. Workshop 'The Theory and Historical Development of Expletives (and non-referential arguments)', Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

2022 - Anticausatives in transitive guise. Poster at GLOW 45, QMU, London.

2022 - Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions - experimental evidence from Greek (with Despina Oikonomou, Fabenne Martin, Felix Golcher & Artemis Alexiadou). Workshop "Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives" (DGfS 2022).

2022 - Two types of transitives with inchoative semantics (with Fabienne Martin). Workshop "Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives" (DGfS 2022).

2021 - Transitive anticausatives. NELS 52, Rutgers University.

2021 - Transitive anticausatives. Semantics Group, University of Athens. 

2021 - Transitive anticausatives. Workshop 'The Meaning of Functional Categories in the Verbal / Sentential Domain (Neg / Asp / Voice / Deg / Little v)', Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 

2021 - On disjoint reference effects in short passives (with Onur Özsoy & Daniil Bondarenko). WCCFL 39, University of Arizona.

2020 - A new case of low modality: goal PPs (with Fabienne Martin, Meg Grant & Christopher Piñón).  SALT 30, Cornell University.

2019 - Non-culminating telic path descriptions (mit Fabienne Martin, Margaret Grant & Christopher Piñón) OASIS 2 conference, University of Nantes.

2019 - Incomplete bounded paths. Experimental data from German (Poster presentation with Fabienne Martin and Margaret Grant). XPrag 2019, University of Edinburgh.

2018 - (cancelled) Revisiting Visser’s Generalization.  41st GLOW Colloquium, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

2018 - (cancelled)  (Im-)personal passives and implicit control into propositional and property-denoting CPs (Poster presentation , with Marcel Pitteroff). GLOW Syntax workshop “Predication in relation to propositions and properties”, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

2017 - Implicit control and impersonal passives (with Marcel Pitteroff). NELS 48, University of Iceland.

2017 - Implicit External Arguments in Passives: against syntactic projection (with Marcel Pitteroff). 1st Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic Theory, University of Crete.

2017 - The (in)abilitiy to control implicitly - a cross-linguistic investigation (with Marcel Pitteroff). CGSW 32, University of Trondheim.

2017 - Optionally causative manner verbs: When implied results get entailed (with Artemis Artemis & Fabienne Martin). Roots V, QMUL & UCL.

2017 - Implicit arguments under control (joint work with M. Pitteroff). Camvoice - Cambridge workshop on Voice. University of Cambridge.

2016 - Medio-Passives with and without by-phrases. Workshop 'Genus Verbi'. Leucorea, Wittenberg.

2016 - Implicit Control: On Landau's generalization and its exceptions (with Marcel Pitteroff). Workshop 'Genus Verbi'. Leucorea, Wittenberg.

2016 - Two types of argument expletives: Evidence from by-phrases and object drop. Workshop on impersonality and correlated phenomena: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives. Universität Salzburg.

2016 - On implicit control with (non-)attitude verbs (with Marcel Pitteroff). Control workshop, HU Berlin.

2015 - Passives with and without by-phrases. Wuppertaler Linguistisches Forum.

2015 - Medio-Passives within a formal typology of Voice. Roots IV, NYU.

2015 - Anticausativization is not Reflexivization (with Margot Vivanco). Séminaire de linguistique. Université Lille 3. 

2014 - Reflexively marked anticausatives are not semantically reflexive (with Margot Vivanco). ENS, Paris.

2014 - Integrating reflexively marked medio-passives into a formal typology of Voice. Going Romance, Lisbon.

2014 - Voice, Voice morphology and the (non-)licensing of by-phrases in reflexive passives. Séminaire de l’UMR. Paris 8.

2014 - Encoding naturally reflexive verbs: On the competition between syntactically and semantically driven reflexive construals. Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

2014 - Anticausatives compete but do not differ in meaning: a French case study (with F. Martin). Congres Mondial de Linguistique Francaise 2014. FU Berlin.

2014 - Probing the semantics of reflexively marked anticausatives via negation (with M. Vivanco). CGG 24, Madrid.

2014 - Against a reflexivization analysis of reflexively marked anticausatives (joint work with Margot Vivanco). Permanent Colloqium of Lingüística y Ciencia Cognitiva, Centro de Ciencas Humanas y Sociales, Madrid. 

2013 - Reflexively marked anticausatives are not semantically reflexive (joint work with Margot Vivanco). Talk at Going Romance, University of Amsterdam

2013 - On Underspecification in Voice Systems. Talk at the 'Little v Workshop', Leiden University.

2013 - Delimiting Voice in Germanic: on object drop and naturally reflexive verbs (joint work with A. Alexiadou & G. Spathas). Talk at NELS 44, UConn.

2013 - Reconciling Burzio's Generalization with Unexpected Accusatives: From German to Icelandic. Talk at  the 28th. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 28), Universität Leipzig.

2013 - Delimiting Voice in Germanic: on object drop and naturally reflexive verbs (joint work with A. Alexiadou & G. Spathas). Talk at the 28th. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 28), Universität Leipzig.

2013 - There are reflexives, and there are anticausatives. But reflexively marked anticausatives are not semantically reflexive (joint work with Margot Vivanco). Talk at the Linguistischer Arbeitskreis (LAK), Universität Köln.

2013 - The status of Burzio's generalization in the New Passive and in Fate Accusatives. 25 Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics (workshop 'syntactic variation in Scandinavia'), University of Reykjavik.

2013 - Passives of reflexives: a corpus study (joint work with Sina Zarriess & Sabine Schulte im Walde). Linguistic Evidence, HU Berlin.

2013 - Syntactic and conceptual aspects of reflexivity (joint work with A. Alexiadou & G. Spathas). Workshop on Verbal morphosyntax, Universität Stuttgart.

2013 - Marked and unmarked anticausatives do not differ in meaning: A French case study (joint work with F. Martin). DGFS 35 (AG 12: perspectives on argument alternations), Universität Potsdam.

2013 - Towards a non-uniform analysis of naturally reflexive verbs (joint work with A. Alexiadou). Talk at WCCFL 31, Arizona State University.

2012 - French anticausatives do not differ in meaning but they compete (joint work with F. Martin). Talk at RALFe 2012, Paris 8.

2012 - The argument structure of reflexively marked anticausatives and middles: evidence from datives (joint work with M. Pitteroff). Poster at NELS 43, City University, New York.

2012 - On the realization of external arguments in nominalizations. a cross-linguistic perspective (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at Socieatas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm.

2012 - Adjectival participles revisited (joint work with A. Alexiadou and B. Gehrke). Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles, London. 

2012 - External arguments in derived nominals (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at the Debrecen workshop on argument structure, University of Debrecen.

2012 - The syntax of external arguments in derived nominals (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at CGSW 27, Yale University.

2012 - On defeasible causatives. (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the semantics and pragmatics workshop, Stanford University.

2012 - The modality of 'offer' and other prospective verbs (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at  workshop 'Modality@OttawaU', University of Ottawa.

2012 - Direct participation effects in derived nominal (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin). Talk at  CLS 48, University of Chicago.

2012 - The modality of 'offer' and other prospective verbs (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at WCCFL 30, UC Santa Cruz.

2012 - Naturally reflexive verbs revisited. (joint work with A. Alexiadou). Talk at the GLOW 35 workshop on 'Empty categories in Syntax', Universität Potsdam.

2011 - Agents, causers and event complexity in nominalizations (joint work with A. Alexiadou, M. Cano, G. Iordachioaia & F. Martin), Talk at the workshop on 'Caregorization and category change in morphology', CASTL, Tromsoe.

2011 - On the argument structure of verbs with "bi- and mono-eventive" uses (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Poster presentation at NELS 42, University of Toronto.

2011 - On the argument structure of (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the 'Grammar Seminar', Lunds Universitet.

2011 - Elastic verbs with bi- and mono-eventive uses: (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the workshop 'Verbal Elasticity', Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

2011 - On (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the workshop 'Aspect and Modality in Lexical Semantics', Universität Stuttgart. 

2011 - On the argument structure of (non-)prospective causatives (joint work with Fabienne Martin). Talk at the workshop 'Encoding the Argument', CNRS/Paris 8. 

2011 - Passives of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at CGSW 26, University of Amsterdam.

2011 - Passives of Reflexives and the Typology of Reflexive Verb Classes. Talk at the workshop 'Approaches to the Lexicon' (Root III), Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2011 - Syntactic encoding of Conceptual Information: Optional Se-constructions in Romance (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at the 34th GLOW Colloquium, University of Vienna.

2011 - Optional Se-constructions in Romance: Syntactic encoding of Conceptual Information (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at the 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Sevilla & Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

2011 - Optional Se-constructions in Romance: Syntactic encoding of Conceptual Information (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at the 35th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.

2011 - Non-Canonical Passives: Introduction (with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the AG 9 - Non-Canonical Passives, 33. Jahrestagung der DGFS, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.

2010 - Optional SI/SE-constructions in Romance: a low applicative analysis (joint work with Cinzia Campanini). Talk at Going Romance 24, Universiteit Leiden.

2010 - On the Nature of (Natural) Reflexivity: The Case of Passives of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at the workshop on 'Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure', Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Barcelona.

2010 - An Unaccusativity diagnostic at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: there-insertion, indefinites and restitutive again (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the workshop 'On Linguistic Interfaces', University of Ulster. 

2010 - On Passives of Reflexive Verbs and the Nature of (Natural) Reflexivity. Talk at Nels 41, University of Pennsylvania.

2010 - On passives of Reflexive Verbs and Theories of Reflexivization. Talk at the workshop on 'Peculiar Binding Configurations', University of Stuttgart.

2010 - Unaccusatives at the Syn-Sem Interface: there insertion, indefinites and restitutive 'again' (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at 'Sinn und Bedeutung 15', Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

2010 - There-insertion and the unaccusativity hypothesis (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at Glow-in-Asia VIII, Beijing Language and Culture University.

2010 - Das Passiv reflexiver Verben: an den Schnittstellen zwischen Syntax, PF und konzeptuellem System. Invited talk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

2010 - Passives of Reflexive Verbs, Impersonal Passives and Default Agreement. Talk at the Workshop 'Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces: Theoretical Modelling and Psycholinguistic Validation', University of Vienna. 

2010 - Naturally atomic er-nominalizations. Workshop on Nominalizations (Troisièmes Journées d’Etudes sur la Nominalisation), CNRS/Paris 8.

2010 - On passives of reflexive verbs. Talk at the workshop 'Variation and Change in Argument Realization', University of Naples.

2010 - Zum Passiv reflexiver Verben und den Theorien der Reflexivierung. Talk at the GGS 2010, Freie Universität Berlin.

2010 - with Artemis Alexiadou. There-insertion: an unaccusativity mismatch at the syntax-semantics interface. Poster presentation at WCCFL 28, USC.

2010 - The Passive of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at the Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln, Universität Köln.

2009 - There-insertion and unaccusativtiy (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (Syntax-Workshop), Universität Salzburg.

2009 - Unaccusatives and 'there'-insertion (joint work with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk at the Aspect seminar, Lunds Universitet. 

2009 - The Passive of Reflexive Verbs. Talk at the Grimm seminar, Lunds Universitet.

2009 - with Artemis Alexiadou. 'There' down in Spec,vP: an argument. Talk at the GGS, Universität Leipzig.

2009 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Gianina Iordachioaia. Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic Nominalizations. Talk at the Congres Variation and change, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

2008 - Event-denoting er-nominalizations. Talk at the Workshop 'Theory of Grammar' at the 36. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Universität Wien.

2008 - CAUSE(r) out of the lexicon. Talk at the Wokshop 'Perspektiven der minimalistischen Syntax', Universität Leipzig.

2008 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The Syntax of CAUSE(rs). Talk at the Mini-Workshop on Causality, IMS Stuttgart.

2008 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Instrumental -er nominals revisited. Poster presentation at WCCFL 27, UCLA.

2008 - Der Kasus im Zustandswechsel: ein applikativer Kopf für das Deutsche. Talk at the GGS, ZAS, Berlin. 

2008 - Two types of external argument licensing: The case of causers. Talk at the 31st GLOW Colloquium, University of Newcastle.

2008 - Local case and cyclic agree. Talk at the 'Jahrestagung der DGFS' (AG7: Local modelling of non-local dependencies in syntax), Universität Bamberg.

2008 - Oblique causers in change-of-state contexts. Talk at the NORMS Workshop on Argument Structure, Lund University.

2007 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Decomposing -er nominalizations. Talk at the workshop "Nominalizations Across Languages", University of Stuttgart.

2007 - The Oblique-Causer Construction across Languages. Alternate at NELS 38, University of Ottawa.

2007 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. PP Licensing in Nominalizations. Talk at NELS 38, University of Ottawa.

2007 - The oblique-causer construction. Talk at the Mini-Case-Workshop, University of Stuttgart.

2007 - with Artemis Alexiadou. On the Realization of External Arguments in Nominalizations. Talk at the GGS, University of Konstanz.

2007 - External Argument "Reduction" within a Configurational Theta Theory. Talk at the 30th GLOW Colloquium, University of Tromsø.

2007 - Motivating the Derivation of non-thematic 'sich'. Workshop on "(Lexical) Decomposition", University of Stuttgart.

2006 - (Gradual) External Argument Reduction (within a Configurational Theta-Theory). Talk at the Syntax-Workshop at the 34. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, University of Klagenfurt.

2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. External argument realization in nominalization. SFB 732 Opening Colloquium, University of Stuttgart.

2006 - Middles as Voiced Anticausatives. Talk at NELS 37, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign.

2006 - with Steffen Heidinger. On the French Reflexive Passive and Anticausative: a diachronic view from the 'par'-phrase. Talk at the Colloque Diachro-3 (Evolutions en français), Paris.

2006 - Middles as Voiced Anticausatives. Talk at the student session of the 'DGfS & GLOW summer school', University of Stuttgart. 

2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Towards a typology of instrument subjects. Talk at the 22nd annual meeting of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 22), Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. Instrument subjects are agents or causers. Talk at the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), University of Washington, Seattle. 

2006 - with Artemis Alexiadou. The readings of instrument subjects: understanding the nature of agents and causers. Talk at the 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, UC Santa Cruz. 

2006 - A mute Voice for the Middle, talk at the guest lecture series of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', University of Stuttgart.

2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The fine structure of (anti-)causatives. Talk at NELS 36, UMass, Amherst.

2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. Anticausatives crosslinguistically. Talk at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Tilburg.

2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. The building blocks of anti-causatives: Evidence from PPs and verb restrictions. Talk at the 28th GLOW Colloquium, University of Geneva.

2005 - with Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou. Decomposing anticausatives. Talk at the IGG XXXI conference, University of Rome.

2005 - The syntax of the unintentional causer construction. Talk at the guest lecture series of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', University of Stuttgart.

2004 - On the interpretation of free datives in German decausative constructions. Talk at the annual meeting of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', Söllerhaus/Kleinwalsertal.

2004 - Zur Interpretation des Dativs bei inchoativen Verben im Deutschen. Talk at the GGS, IDS Mannheim.

2003 - Anti-causatives, poster presentation at the “Tag der Linguistik”, Universität Stuttgart.

2003 - The morphological patterns of anticausatives and their interpretations. Talk at the annual meeting of the graduate school 'Linguistic representations and their interpretation', Söllerhaus/Kleinwalsertal.

2001 - with Hans-Martin Gärtner. One Cheer for OT: UE = EU! Talk at the GGS, University of Bochum.