Talks & Publications

Talks

• December 08, 2023): The ZAS-Database of clause-embedding predicates - How it can enrich your research, MaTüBe Workshop at ZAS (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics), Berlin

• semesterly presentations in Artemis Alexiadou's research group on the progress of my project, most recently in October 2023 

• December 10, 2018: Evidence from compositional aspect for the modeling of psych verbs, talk at the Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL), KU Leuven (slides)

• June 5, 2018: The composition of aspect in German stative psych and non-psych predicates, talk at The Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh

• April 28, 2017: German psych verbs and the Stage-level/ Individual-level distinction, talk at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester

• June 23, 2016: Zur Aspektuellen Semantik deutscher Psychverben, talk at GeSuS-Fachtagung 2016 in Brno (Czech Republic)

• June 11, 2016: Fragen zu Fragen, talk with Dr. Kerstin Schwabe at the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" in Berlin

• May 10, 2016: Ob-Sätze einbettende Prädikate, guest lecture with Dr. Kerstin Schwabe at Leipzig University  

• October 01, 2015: Ob-Sätze einbettende Prädikate, guest lecture with Dr. Kerstin Schwabe at Köln University

Publications

• Sommer, Livia. 2024. Aspectual composition and effects of definiteness in German and English stative psychological verbs: An empirical investigation. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Stiebels, Barbara, Thomas McFadden, Kerstin Schwabe, Torgrim Solstad, Elisa Kellner, Livia Sommer & Katarzyna Stoltmann. 2017. ZAS-Database of Clause-Embedding Predicates. In Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (ed.), OWID plus, Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache, OWID plus.

• Stiebels, Barbara, Thomas McFadden, Kerstin Schwabe, Torgrim Solstad, Elisa Kellner, Livia Sommer & Katarzyna Stoltmann. 2017. Users Guide for the ZAS Database of Clause-Embedding Predicates. In Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (ed.), OWID plus, 1-53. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache, OWID plus

Service

• Organising Committee ConSOLE XVII 2019, taking place in Berlin, February 21-23

• Reviewer for ThEGen Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender, Berlin, June 2018 

• Member of the organizing team of Treffpunkt Sprache, presenting linguistic topics to language enthusiasts in monthly gatherings, 2014-2016

• “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" (Long night of the Sciences), a Berlin-wide popular science event, 2014-2016