Talks

(2026) Uit de marge: 'Kleine' talen en taaltypologie. Inaugural lecture, KVAB, 14 February 2026.

(2025) What happens after initial consonant loss? Some observations from Lamalamic. Seminar, Australian National University, 19 June 2025.

(2025) Lamalamic. On the joys of being pushed. Seminar, University of Leuven, 6 May 2025.

(2025) (with Christine Troussart Van Bulck, presented by CT) The role of named analogues in the lexicalization of introduced concepts: A typological study. 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bordeaux, 26-29 August 2024.

(2025) (with Christine Troussart Van Bulck, presented by CT) The role of named analogues in the lexicalization of introduced concepts: A typological study. Transalpine Typology Meeting, Pavia, 1-3 July 2025.

(2024) (with Guglielmo Inglese, presented by GI) Anticausative constructions in Australian languages: A synchronic and diachronic typology. 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Singapore, 4-6 December 2024.

(2023) (with Guglielmo Inglese) The causal-noncausal alternation and anticausativization in Australian languages. Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization, Torino, 9-10 November 2023.

(2022) Umbuygamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia). Seminar, Australian National University, 22 July 2022.

(2022) The fate of nasal prestopping in Umbuygamu. 20th Australian Languages Workshop, North Stradbroke Island, 8-10 July 2022.

(2021) Plenary talk: Impersonal constructions in Paman: Two puzzles in pronominal morphosyntax. Description de l'oral et méthodes d'analyse linguistique: Perspectives actuelles. Hommage à Claire Blanche-Benveniste (1935-2010), Nancy, 20-22 October 2021.

(2020) (with Ellison Luk, presented by EL) The morphosyntax of clause linkage in Australian languages: a typological study. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europeae, SEL 2020 Platform, 26 August - 1 September 2020.

(2019) Plenary talk: Initial consonant loss and its consequences? Evidence from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). Vielfaltslinguistik III, Cologne, 28-29 March 2019.

(2018) The diachrony of initial consonant loss in Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Seminar, Philological Society, London, 19 October 2018.

(2018) (with Hilary Chappell, presented by JCV) Optional and differential case marking: Typology and diachrony. Seminar, University of Oxford, 15 October 2018.

(2018) The diachrony of initial consonant loss in Princess Charlotte Bay (Cape York Peninsula). Seminar, Australian National University, 17 August 2018.

(2018) (with Hilary Chappell, presented by JCV) The typology and diachrony of optional and differential case marking. Seminar, University of Pavia, 10 May 2018.

(2018) Pronominal cross-reference in Umpithamu and Lamalamic: Origins and functions. Seminar, University of Pavia, 9 May 2018.

(2018) (with Hilary Chappell) The typology of optional and differential case marking. Seminar, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris, 2 March 2018.

(2017) Plenary panelist, Issues in Morphosyntactic Typology (Panel contribution: Ergativity, optional and otherwise). 12th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, 12-14 December 2017.

(2017) 'Initial-dropping' revisited. Initial consonant loss and related phenomena in Cape York Peninsula (Australia). 12th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, 12-14 December 2017.

(2017) The origins of root expansion in Lamalama and Rimanggudinhma. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, Sydney, 4-7 December 2017.

(2017) The genetic status of Lamalamic: Phonological and morphological evidence. Seminar, Australian National University, 16 August 2017.

(2017) (with Hilary Chappell, presented by JCV) The typology of optional and differential case marking. Seminar, University of Queensland, 7 August 2017.

(2016) Lamalamic word structure: Erosion and expansion. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 5, London, 2-4 December 2016.

(2016) Revisiting Lamalamic metathesis. Peter Sutton: Ethnographer and contrarian. A celebration and workshop, Adelaide, 20-21 August 2016.

(2016) Revisiting Lamalamic metathesis. Seminar, University of Queensland, 17 August 2016.

(2016) The typology of insubordination (and what it can tell us about mood and modality). CRISCO Seminar, University of Caen, 7 April 2016.

(2015) (with Dana Louagie, presented by DL) Noun phrase structure in Australian languages. A typological study. 11th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Albuquerque, 1-3 August 2015.

(2015) The languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia (4 lectures). Séminaires du CRLAO, EHESS, Paris, 8-15-22-29 April 2015.

(2014) Personal multilingualism and contact-induced change in Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Conference on Grammatical Hybridization and Social Conditions, Leipzig, 16-18 October 2014.

(2014) (with Dana Louagie, presented by DL) The nature of NP constituency in Australian languages. A sample-based study. 6th International Conference on Syntax of the World's Languages, Pavia, 8-10 September 2014.

(2013) (with Dana Louagie, presented by DL) The role of pronouns in NPs in Australian languages. 46th SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) Conference, Split, 18-21 September 2013.

(2012) (with Sarah D'Hertefelt, presented by SD) Delimiting insubordination. Independent at(t)-clauses in Danish and Swedish. 45th SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) Conference, Stockholm, 29 August - 1 September 2012.

(2012) (With Bruce Rigsby, presented by JCV) Interpreting archival data for grammar writing. Donald Thomson's Ayapathu fieldnotes. Annual Conference of the Henry Sweet Society, Aarhus, 30 August - 1 September 2012.

(2012) Respondent, Nijmegen Lectures 2012 (Coevolutionary Linguistics: Diversity, Culture, Mind and History, by Nick Evans), Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik & Radboud Universiteit, 9-11 January 2012.

(2012) Insubordination in Dutch, German and English: Constructional range and development. Seminar, University of Jena, 29 May 2012.

(2012) (with Bruce Rigsby) A sketch of Ayapathu/Yintyingka. 10th Australian Languages Workshop, North Stradbroke Island, 11-13 March 2012.

(2012) (with Sarah D'Hertefelt, presented by JCV) Running in the family. Patterns of complement insubordination in Germanic. Workshop on Dynamics of Insubordination, Tokyo, 25-28 October 2012.

(2011) (with Sarah D'Hertefelt & An Van linden, presented by JCV) A semantic typology of complement insubordination. 9th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Hong Kong, 21-24 July 2011.

(2011) Some links between information structure and subordination, and their functional basis. Information Structure and Subordination: South America and beyond, Nijmegen, 27-28 April 2011.

(2011) Insubordination in Germanic. Seminar, University of Cologne.

(2011) Contact and parallel developments in Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Workshop on Shared Grammaticalization in the Transeurasian Languages, Leuven, 22-23 September 2011.

(2010) (with Sarah D'Hertefelt & An Van linden, presented by JCV) Complement insubordination in three Germanic languages. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, 7-9 July 2010.

(2010) Noun phrases in Umpithamu – Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Workshop on the Noun Phrase, Aarhus, 26-27 November 2010.

(2010) Placenames and land-language relations in the Princess Charlotte Bay region. Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories: An interdisciplinary workshop on theory, method and documentation, Neuwied, 30 May - 4 June 2010.

(2010) Languages and people in the Princess Charlotte Bay region. Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories: An interdisciplinary workshop on theory, method and documentation, Neuwied, 30 May - 4 June 2010.

(2010) TAM and reported speech & thought in Umpithamu narratives. Seminar, University of Western Australia, 6 August 2010.

(2010) Multingualism and language contact in Aboriginal Australia. A case study from Cape York Peninsula. Seminar, Sonderforschungsbereich 538: Mehrsprachigkeit, University of Hamburg, 4 February 2010.

(2009) (with Stefanie Fauconnier) Unravelling animacy effects for instigator arguments. 8th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Berkeley, 23-26 July 2009.

(2009) Plenary talk: Traces of contact in Umpithamu, a Paman language of Cape York Peninsula. 4th TWIST students' conference in linguistics, Leiden, 24 April 2009.

(2009) The genetic status of Umpithamu. Sixth European Australianist Workshop, Leuven, 20-22 November 2009.

(2009) Tense, aspect and mood in Umpithamu, Morrobolam and Mbarrumbathama. Some observations and questions. Workshop on tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Australian languages, Fontainebleau, 7-11 September 2009.

(2009) Impersonal constructions in Umpithamu and the Lamalamic languages. Optimal Communication Colloquium, University of Nijmegen, 9 December 2009.

(2008) Contact-induced restructuring of pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu: Between free pronouns and enclitic agreement marking. 3rd International Conference on Syntax of the World’s Languages, Berlin, 25-28 September 2008.

(2008) Plenary talk: Illocutionary force in complex sentence constructions. International Conference on Discourse & Grammar, Ghent, 23-24 May 2008.

(2008) Naming places in Lamalama country. European Australianist Workshop, Manchester, 12-13 December 2008.

(2008) Umpithamu in contact with the Lamalamic languages. Grammatical convergence in the Lower Princess Charlotte Bay area. Seminar, University of Queensland.

(2007) Extending the typology of experiencer constructions. 'Experienced action' in Australian languages. 7th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Paris, 25-28 September 2007.

(2007) Umpithamu in contact with the Lamalamic languages. Grammatical convergence in the Lower Princess Charlotte Bay area. European Australianists Workshop, Nijmegen, 27 October 2007.

(2007) Case and participant marking in an Umpithamu removal narrative. Informal workshop on Australian Aboriginal narrative, Nijmegen, 26 January 2007.

(2007) Umbuygamu/Morrobolam: A field report. Seminar, University of Melbourne.

(2006) The interaction between semantic and pragmatic factors in the morphosyntactic realization of object pronouns in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia). 2nd International Conference on Syntax of the World’s Languages, Lancaster, 14-16 September 2006.

(2006) (with An Van linden, presented by AVL) The semantic development of essential, crucial and needful. Paths to deontic meaning. 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006.

(2006) (with Barbara de Cock) Construing confrontation: grammar in the construction of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu. 23-25/04/2006. Second European Workshop on Australian Languages: Narrative and grammar. 23-25 April 2006.

(2006) Focus and clause linkage in Umpithamu. Workshop on Deixis, Focus, Topic and Subordination. Seminar, LACITO, Paris.

(2006) Case marking and information structure in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia). Aboriginal languages workshop, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

(2005) Optional ergative marking in Umpithamu (Cape York). Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, Melbourne, 28-30 September 2005.

(2005) The grammaticalization of 'person' to reflexive-reciprocal markers in Umpithamu and other Cape York languages. FITIGRA (From ideational to interpersonal: Perspectives from grammaticalization), Leuven, 10-12 February 2005.

(2005) Optional ergative marking in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia). Ergativity workshop, Aarhus.

(2004) The role of mental states in adverbial complex sentences: Cross-linguistic evidence. International Language and Cognition Conference, Coffs Harbour, 10-12 September 2004.

(2004) (with An Van linden, presented by JCV) A typological study of counterfactual constructions. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, Sydney, 13-15 July 2004.

(2004) Making a multimedia dictionary for Umpithamu (Cape York). Workshop on making dictionaries for indigenous languages, AIATSIS conference, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

(2004) Reflexive-reciprocal marking in Umpithamu, in its Cape York context. Reciprocals workshop, University of Melbourne.

(2003) A typology of irrealis mood in Australian languages. 5th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Cagliari, 15-18 September 2003.

(2003) Irrealis moods and complex sentences in Australian languages. Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages, Blackwood, 14-16 March 2003.

(2003) Problems in the analysis of subordination in Germanic languages, and implications for layered models of clause structure. Seminar, University of Melbourne.

(2003) Composite mood marking in non-Pama-Nyungan languages. Seminar, University of Melbourne.

(2003) Umpithamu: An initial field report. Seminar, University of Melbourne.

(2003) Composite mood marking in non-Pama-Nyungan languages. Seminar, University of Western Australia.

(2003) Counterfactuality as an implicature. 3rd Workshop of the SFRC: Grammar and Discourse, Ghent, 27-29 November 2003.

(2002) Mood and clause combining in Australian languages. 4th International Workshop on Australian Languages, Aarhus, 25-26 June 2002.

(2002) Asymmetric operator dependencies and coordination in RRG: Arguments against a constituency view of coordination in complex sentence structures. 2002 Role & Reference Grammar Conference, Logroño, 27-28 July 2002.

(2002) Layered models of clause structure and the analysis of clause combining. Seminar, SILEX, University of Lille-3.

(2002) Het concept ‘layering’ in een aantal functionele frameworks. Tussen theorievorming en beschrijving. Doctoral seminar, KULAK.

(2001) (with Hubert Cuyckens, presented by HC) The problem of subjectification in the development of English conjunctions. 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Santa Barbara, 22-27 July 2001.

(2001) Preposed adverbial clauses, wide discursive scope, and subordination: the grammal basis of the correlations. 34th Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leuven, 28-31 August 2001.

(2001) Two types of coordination in clause combining: illocutionary balance versus imbalance. Coordination: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics, Salford, 16-18 November 2001.

(2001) The grammar of preposed adverbial clauses in English. Seminar, University of Aarhus.

(2001) Preposed adverbial clauses, wide discursive scope, and subordination: the grammal basis of the correlations. Discourse on Dinsdag, University of Utrecht.

(2000) The interpersonal status of the English modal auxiliaries. First Workshop of the SFRC: Exploring interpersonal grammar, Leuven, 16-18 November 2000.

(2000) Subjective vs objective modality in Functional Grammar: criteria, types and unmarked options. 9th International Conference on Functional Grammar, Madrid, 20-23 September 2000.

(2000) Interpersonal grammar and the typology of clause combining mechanisms in English. FG Friday talks, Amsterdam.

(1999) The grammar of domains in conjunction, applied to the problems of non-assertive speech acts, coordinate constructions, and parataxis. 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Stockholm, 10-16 July 1999.

(1999) Adverbial clauses as a heuristic for exploring parallellisms between the NP and the clause. 11th Euro-International Systemic Functional Workshop, Ghent, 14-17 July 1999.

(1998) The grammar of epistemic and speech act conjunction. BAAHE Annual Meeting, Brussels.

(1998) Internal vs. external conjunction reconsidered from the perspective of Mood-Residue clause structure. 25th International Systemic Functional Conference, Cardiff, 13-18 July 1998.