Presentations
Upcoming
tba. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA33), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. [invited]
Psych alternations in an ergative language: Deconstructing Samoan ABS/OBL alignment. Syntac Circle, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. [invited]
2026
Locality and antilocality in derverbal nominalizations. Research Unit Cyclic Optimalizations, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Germany. [invited]
Psych alternations in an ergative language: Deconstructing Samoan ABS/OBL alignment. Morpho-Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany. [invited]
2025
Licensing non-canonical arguments in Mandarin: A non-recursive applicative analysis. Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, China. [together with Jianrong Yu][invited]
Rate adverbs in Samoan: Inception vs. duration. LALS Seminar Series, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. [invited]
Locality and antilocality in Polynesian nominalizations. School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand. [invited]
Possessive marking in nominal clauses: Regularities, variation, and challenges. Special Seminar, Faculty of Education, National University of Samoa, Apia. [invited]
Rate adverbs in Samoan: Inception vs. duration. The 17th Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL17), University of Cologne, Gemany.
Case domains in double causatives. International Argument Alternation Workshop (IAAW), Kobe University, Japan. [together with Haydar Batuhan Yıldız]
Information structure and transitivity in Mandarin applicatives. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln (LAK), Department of German Language and Literature I, University of Cologne, Germany. [invited]
Antilocality in nominalizations. 11th Workshop on Nominalizations (JENom11), University of Graz, Austria.
Applicative alternations across languages: An overview. 1st Workshop of the DFG-Scientific Network "Applicative alternations across languages (AAAL)", Department of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. [together with Andras Bárány & Jozina Vander Klok]
Towards a typology of multiple-marking SVCs. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA32), Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia. [together with Nicola Klingler]
(Anti-)locality in Samoan nominalizations. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA32), Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Case domains in (double) causatives: Morphological vs. analytical causatives. Bielefeld Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025 (BieLeiCoS2025), University of Bielefeld, Germany. [together with Haydar Batuhan Yıldız]
Anti-locality in Samoan nominalizations. 47th Generative Linguistics of the Old World Conference (GLOW47), University of Frankfurt, Germany.
High applicatives in Mandarin: Licensing constraints on non-canonical arguments. 47th Generative Linguistics of the Old World Conference (GLOW47), University of Frankfurt, Germany. [together with Jianrong Yu]
Two types of multiple-marking SVCs. Workshop: "Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective (AG2)" at the 47th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS47), University of Mainz, Germany. [together with Nicola Klingler]
High applicatives in Mandarin: Licensing constraints on non-canonical arguments. Mini-Workshop on Applicatives, Department of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. [together with Jianrong Yu][invited]
Themes in non-selected resultatives. Cause(e/r): The interplay between event and argument realization, University of Cologne, Germany. [invited]
2024
Biases in the lexical category of property concept words: A re-evaluation of Dixon (1982). Workshop: "Replication & reproducibility in quantitative typology" at the 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT15), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [together with Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Colin Bannard, Emily Hanink, & Siena Weingartz]
Change-of-state in Samoan: Multiple sources for inchoativity. Sinn und Bedeutung 29 (SuB29), Consorzio Universitario Mediterrano Orientale (C.U.M.O.), Noto, Italy.
Change-of-state without morphology in Daakaka. 21st International Morphology Meeting (IMM21), WU Vienna, Austria.
Multiple sources of inchoativity: Microvariation across Polynesian. Colloquium: General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne, Germany. [invited]
Change-of-state in Samoan. The 11th TripleA Workshop for Semantic Fieldworkers (TripleA11), Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS & Université de Nantes), France.
Instrumental applicatives in Mandarin: Argument structure alternations across thematic layers. Deparment of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK. [invited]
Marked unergatives in Samoan: Deverbal nominalizations and syntactic ergativity. Syntax Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. [invited]
Themes to instruments: Applied arguments in Mandarin resultatives. Syntactic Theory at Rutgers (ST@R), Department of Linguistics, University of Rutgers, NJ, USA. [together with Jianrong Yu][invited]
Change-of-state without morphology in Daakaka. The 54th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS54), MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. [poster]
2023
Themes to instruments: Applied arguments in Mandarin resultatives. AcqVa Research Group, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. [invited]
Change-of-state in Daakaka: A type-shifting account. The 30th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA30), University of Lund, Sweden.
Inchoativization across languages. Tuesday Seminar Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA. [invited]
Inchoativization across languages: Morphology vs. type-shift. 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC10), Leibniz-Centre for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany. [together with Ryan Walter Smith & Andrew Koontz-Garboden]
Multiple-marking SVCs: Multiple exponence vs. reduced adjunct clauses. 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC10), Leibniz-Centre for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany. [together with Nicola Klingler]
Marked unergatives in Samoan: Deverbal nominalizations and syntactic ergativity. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Deparment of German Language and Literature 1, University of Cologne, Germany [invited]
From state to change of state by type-shift. The 41st Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL41), University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. [together with Ryan Walter Smith & Andrew Koontz-Garboden][poster]
From state to change of state by type-shift. The 59th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS59), University of Chicago, IL, USA. [together with Ryan Walter Smith & Andrew Koontz-Garboden]
From state to change of state by type-shift. 46th Generative Linguistics of the Old World Conference (GLOW46), University of Vienna & University of Graz, Austria. [together with Ryan Walter Smith & Andrew Koontz-Garboden][poster]
Themes to instruments: Non-canonical arguments in Mandarin RVCs. Workshop: Resultatives - New approaches and renewed perspectives, National University of Singapore.
Marked unergatives in Samoan: Deverbal nominalizations and syntactic ergativity. Meaning and Grammar Research Group, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, UK. [invited]
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka. The 53rd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS53), University of Göttingen, Germany. [poster]
Biases in the lexical category of property concept words: A reevaluation of Dixon (1982). The 97th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA98), Colorado Convention Center, CO, USA. [together with Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Colin Bannard, Emily Hanink, & Siena Weingartz][poster]
2022
State/Change-of-state lability and the meaning of verbhood. Tuesday Seminar Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, HI, USA. [invited]
Talmy's typology in serializing languages. Colloquium: Current Trends in General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. [invited]
Marked unergatives in Samoan nominalizations. The 40th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL40), Stanford University, CA, USA. [together with Artemis Alexiadou][virtual]
State/Change of state lability and the meaning of verbhood. Workshop: "Typological generalizations and semantic theory" at 45th Generative Linguistics of the Old World Colloquium (GLOW45), Queen Mary University of London, UK. [together with Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink, Collin Bannard, Mike Everdell, Itamar Francez, Kyle Jerro, Elise LeBovidge & Stephen Nichols]
Three types of serializing exceed comparatives in Igbo. The 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL53), University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. [together with Mary Amaechi][virtual]
Manner/result polysemy in Daakaka: Complex verbal paradigms and their implications for the distribution of root meaning. Research seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, UK. [invited]
State/Change of state lability and the meaning of verbhood. Workshop 4: "Change of state verbs - Empirical and theoretical perspectives" at the 44th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS44), University of Tübingen, Germany. [together with Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Colin Bannard, Mike Everdell, Itamar Francez, Kyle Jerro, Elise LeBovidge & Stephen Nichols][virtual]
2021
Manner/result polysemy in Daakaka: Complex verbal paradigms and their implications for the distribution of root meaning. Surrey Linguistics Circle. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. [invited][virtual]
Tripartite/inactive case in Samoan nominalizations: On Ergativity and unaccusativity. The 52th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS52), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. [together with Artemis Alexiadou][poster][virtual]
Complex event formation is cyclic. Workshop 4 "Causation - From Grammar to concepts" at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europae (SLE54), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. [together with Malte Zimmermann & Mary Amaechi] [virtual]
Manner/result polysemy in Daakaka. The 8th TripleA Workshop for Semantic Fieldworkers (TripleA 8), National University of Singapore. [invited] [virtual]
Manner/result ambiguity: Complex paradigms in Daakaka verbal predicates. 13th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL13), University of Edinburgh, UK. [virtual]
"Verb-framed" resultatives in a serializing language: Evidence from Samoan. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 57), University of Chicago, USA. [virtual]
Talmy's typology in serializing languages: Variations on a vP. 44th Generative Linguistics of the Old World Colloquium (GLOW 44). [poster][virtual]
Root meaning is configurational: Evidence from the manner/result ambiguity in Daakaka. Roots Workshop at the 39th Meeting of the West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39). University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. [poster][virtual]
2020
A manner requirement on causatives: Resultative compounds in Daakaka. Sinn und Bedeutung 25 (SuB25), University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. [virtual]
Verbal VP-modifiers in Samoan verb serialization. The 27th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 27), National University of Singapore. [virtual]
Resultative compounds: On semantic constraints on causative predicates in Daakaka. The Seventh TripleA Workshop for Semantic Fieldworker (TripleA7). University of Tübingen, Germany. [virtual]
The syntax and semantics of Oceanic resultative serial verb constructions. Romanistisches Forschungskolloquium, Institut für Romanische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. [invited] [cancelled]
On the composition of manner and result: Causative secondary predicates in Oceanic. 12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL12), University of Oslo, Norway. [early career plenary speaker] [virtual]
Revisiting Givon’s generalization: On the prosodic integration of SVCs in Daakaka. 12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL12), University of Oslo, Norway. [together with Nicola Klingler][virtual]
Resultative serial verb constructions in Daakaka: Causative formation and lexical categories. University of Manchester, UK. [invited][virtual]
2019:
On resultatives with causative secondary predicates: Insights from Samoan verb serialization. IGRA-Kolloquium, Department of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Germany. [invited]
On resultatives with causative secondary predicates: Insights from Samoan verb serialization. Syn-Sem Kolloquium, Department of Linguistics, Universität Potsdam, Germany. [invited]
On the prosodic integration of serial verb constructions: A phonetic analysis. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung 15 (P&P15), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. (together with Nicola Klingler) [poster]
Pseudo noun incorporation and DOM: Object agreement in Daakaka. The 26th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA XXVI), University of Western Ontario, London/Ontario, Canada.
Marked causatives as Voice-driven contextual allomorphy. 42nd Generative Linguistics of the Old World Colloquium (GLOW 42), University of Oslo, Norway. [poster]
Resultatives revisited: A new perspective from Oceanic verb serialization. Tuesday Seminar Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. [invited]
A look into verb serialization: Semantic and syntactic diagnostics. Kolloquium: Syntax und Semantik, Institut für deutsche Sprache & Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. [invited]
2018:
Causative morphology in resultative secondary predication: The case of Samoan fa'a-. The 8th Conference on Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters (TMP 2018), Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language & Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Resultatives in Samoan. Workshop on the Syntax of Polynesian Languages, University of Toronto, Canada.
The morphosyntactic status of the subject (marker) in Daakaka (West-Ambrym). 10th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL10), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Resultative serial verb constructions: A view from Oceanic. PhD-Day. L-ZAS & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. [invited]
2017:
Argument markers in West-Ambrym languages: Clitic Doubling or Agreement. 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT12), ANU, Canberra, Australia.
The syntactic structure of resultative SVCs in Saliba (Oceanic). Multi Verb Constructions: Semantic, Syntactic and Typological Perspectives (MCV2017), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.