Recent:

• Viola Schmitt (2024). Worlds are not denotations. Harvard, Meaning and modality lab. slides

• Viola Schmitt (2024). Constraints on meaning. GLOWing lecture. slides 

• Viola Schmitt (2024). Distributivity is complex. UCLA colloquium. 

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt (2023).  Non-de dicto construals as a unified phenomenon. Talk, PhiLiP Workshop 2023. slides 

• Viola Schmitt (2023). Classical meanings for universal expressions? Talk, x  NELS 53. slides 

• Viola Schmitt (2022). World pluralities and world quantification: How do modal operators `use' worlds? (partially joint work with Nina Haslinger). Talk, linguistics colloquium, University of Connecticut 

• Nina Haslinger, Alain Hien, Emil Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2022), A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universals across languages. Poster, SinfonIJA 15. slides 

• Viola Schmitt (2022), Modal operators, orderings and the lack of world plurality. Talk, workshop on part-whole structures in natural language, Brno. slides 

• Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2022),  Empirical Requirements for the Analysis of Adverbial Conjunctions. Talk, Workshop Adverbs and adverbials and the form-meaning interface: diachronic and synchronic perspectives, University of Göttingen. slides 

• Viola Schmitt (2022), No evidence for world pluralities - why? Talk, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Geneva h 

• Viola Schmitt (2022), No evidence for world pluralities - why? Talk, Colloquium Logic, Language and Information, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. slides 

• Valerie Wurm, Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina & Viola Schmitt (2021): Semantic effects of reduplicated adjectives and numerals. Talk, TerraLing Workshop 2021. slides 

• Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2021): Investigating distributive conjunctions and their parts of TerraLing (joint work with Mojmír Dočekal, Jovana Gajic, Magdalena Roszkowski & Marcin Wągiel). Talk, TerraLing Workshop 2021.slides 

• Mojmír Dočekal, Nina Haslinger,  Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Iveta Šafratová, Viola Schmitt,  Marcin Wągiel & Valerie Wurm (2021): Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from Czech and German. Talk, SinfonIJA 14.

• Mojmír Dočekal, Nina Haslinger,  Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Iveta Šafratová, Viola Schmitt,  Marcin Wągiel & Valerie Wurm (2021): Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from Czech and German. Talk, Sinn und Bedeutung 26. slides 

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2021): Belief states as ordered sets of worlds: Evidence from embedded counterfactuals. Syntax/semantics Oberseminar, University of Göttingen.  slides 

• Viola Schmitt  (2021): Are worlds special? Talk, Semantics Colloquium, University of Potsdam.  slides 

• Viola Schmitt  (2021): Are worlds special? Talk, Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University.  

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2021): What embedded attitudes can tell us about the semantics of attitudes. Talk, POCC workshop, DGfS conference. slides 

• Viola Schmitt (2020): Distributive conjunctions and plurality: Two cross-linguistic asymmetries.  (Joint work with Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski and Valerie Wurm.) Talk, University of Frankfurt

• Viola Schmitt (2020): Distinguishing and identifying belief objects. (Joint work with Nina Haslinger.) Talk, University of Cologne.

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2020): Identity and distinctness of belief objects: Cumulative belief and Hob-Nob-sentences.  Talk, University of Olso. slides 

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2020): Using TerraLing to investigate the semantic typology of conjunction. TerraLing Workshop. slides 

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2020):  Counterfactual attitude content and the semantics of plurals in belief contexts. Sinn und Bedeutung 25.

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2020): Identity and distinctness of belief objects. Talk, Semantics in Athens.  slides

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2020):  When do intentional objects count as distinct? Evidence from cumulative sentences. Talk, 21st Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the roots of Pragmasemantics.  slides

• Viola Schmitt (2019): Individuating intensional objects .(Joint work with Nina Haslinger.) Semantics in Athens 2. 

• Viola Schmitt (2019): Pluralities in intensional contexts. Invited talk, University of Athens.

• Viola Schmitt (2019): Distinguishing intensional objects .(Joint work with Nina Haslinger.) Workshop by Team Stowell, London. slides

• Nina Haslinger, Valentin Panzirsch, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2019): A plural analysis of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from two cross-linguistic asymmetries.  SPE 11, Warsaw

• Viola Schmitt (2019): Pluralities in intensional contexts: Cumulativity and individuation. SinFonIJA 12, Brno. slides

• Nina Haslinger, Valentin Panzirsch, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2019): A plural analysis of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from two cross-linguistic asymmetries.  SinFonIJA 12, Brno. slides

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2019): Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach. Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück. slides

• Viola Schmitt & Frank Sode (2019): An anti-intellectualist treatment of German wissen (`know'). Invited talk, Linguistics department, University of Frankfurt

• Viola Schmitt (2019): Two cross-linguistic asymmetries in conjunction: A plural projection account. (Joint work of our FWF-project.) Invited talk, CRC-Colloquium, University of Düsseldorf. slides

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2019): Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach.  Invited Talk, SemPrE Colloquium, University of Düsseldorf.

• Viola Schmitt (2019): Cumulativity across intensional interveners. Invited talk, English department, University of Göttingen.

• Viola Schmitt: Parts of propositions, Invited talk, University of Graz, 03/2019 slides

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt: Cumulative readings of modified numerals. Talk, 20th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the roots of Pragmasemantics, 03/2019 

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt: Asymmetries in cumulative construals of non-referential DPs', talk,  RTANJ Linguistics 2 workshop, Rtanj/Serbia, 09/2018 handout

• Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt, Maik Thalmann & Daniele Panizza: Experimental evidence for non-intersective VP-conjunction in children and adults.  Poster presentation, Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, Göttingen, 07/2018

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt: Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition. Talk, SALT 28, MIT, 05/2018.  slides, handout

• Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski & Viola Schmitt: Distributive vs. non-distributive conjunction: A cross-linguistic view. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University Brno, 04/2018.

• Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt: Universal quantification and conjunction: Cumulativity asymmetries. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University Brno, 04/2018

• Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski & Viola Schmitt (2018): Cross-linguistic evidence for predicate-level distributivity operators. Talk, Journées Co-distributivité 2018, Paris.

•  Viola Schmitt (2018): Cumulativity and intensional interveners. Talk, 19th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba. slides

•  Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt (2018): Cumulativity asymmetries and composition. Talk, 19th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba.

• Viola Schmitt (2018): Kumulativitätsasymmetrien, Distributivität und Pluralprojektion. Invited talk, German Department, Universität Tübingen.

• Viola Schmitt (2018): Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and distributivity. Invited talk, English Department, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

• Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski & Viola Schmitt (2017): Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction. Talk, 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam. handout

• Viola Schmitt & Daniele Panizza (2017): What and means: a study on the intersective vs. non-intersective construal of VP-and. Poster presentation, XPrag 2017, Cologne.

• Friederike Buch, Edgar Onea & Viola Schmitt (2017): Complement anaphora and the plurality of worlds. Poster presentation, SALT 27, University of Maryland.

• Daniele Panizza & Viola Schmitt (2017): What and means: A study of intersective and non-intersective VP-and. Poster presentation, 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge/MA.

Older:

•  Viola Schmitt: Conjunction, plurals and non-local dependencies. Talk, workshop  Semantics of Conjunction,  University of Vienna, 12/2016.

• Viola Schmitt:  Cross-categorial plurality and plural projection.  Invited talk, Logik-Café, University of Vienna, 12/2016.

• Viola Schmitt & Frank Sode: An anti-intellectualist treatment of wissen (`know')'. Talk,  Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh, 09/2016.

• Viola Schmitt & Frank Sode: A modal analysis of (some) attitude verbs. Invited Talk, Syntax-Semantik-Oberseminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 05/2016.

• Viola Schmitt: Negation in natürlichen Sprachen und Homogeneität. Invited talk, Interdisziplinärer Workshop  `Negation´,  Mürzzuschlag, 04/2016.

• Viola Schmitt: Asymmetries in plural predication. Talk,  Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Workshop for Arnim von Stechow,  Tübingen, 09/2015.

• Viola Schmitt:  Scopelessness and quantification.  Invited talk,  Linguistics in Göttingen,  Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 05/2015.

• Viola Schmitt: Higher-order pluralities. Invited Talk, Syntax-Semantics-Colloquium, University of Athens, 03/2015.

• Katharina Hartmann & Viola Schmitt: Indicative V2 and V-end structures in German complement clauses. Invited talk, Syntax-Semantics-Colloquium, University of Athens, 03/2015.

• Viola Schmitt: Scopelessness. Invited talk, Institut Jean Nicod/ENS, Paris, 03/2015.

• Viola Schmitt & Hedde Zeijlstra: A slightly different meaning for number.  Pre-workshop Proportion and Quantity, ZAS, Berlin, 02/2015.

• Viola Schmitt: Higher-order pluralities and plural predication. Talk, Journées (Co-)Distributivité  2015, Paris, 02/2015.

• Viola Schmitt: Scopelessness. Invited talk, Palácky University Olomouc, 10/2014.

• Viola Schmitt: Levels of plural predication. Invited talk, Semantik-Oberseminar, Goethe-Universit\"at Frankfurt, 06/2014

• Viola Schmitt:  Pluralities across semantic domains. Invited Talk, Syntax-Semantik-Oberseminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 12/2013

• Viola Schmitt: Pluralities across semantic domains. Invited Talk, ZAS, Berlin, 12/2013.

• Manuel Kriz & Viola Schmitt: Quantification and plurality. Invited Talk, Syntax and Semantics, UCLA, 05/2013.

• Manuel Kriz & Viola Schmitt: Semantic slack in plural predication. Workshop on Semantics, University of Vienna, 05/2012.

• Viola Schmitt: The impact of syntactic structure on the interpretation of conjoined structures. Invited Talk, ZAS, Berlin, 01/2010.

• Patrick Grosz & Viola Schmitt: `An ordering semantics for German aber. Talk,  Sinn und Bedeutung 15, Saarbrücken, 09/2010.

• Johannes Schmitt & Viola Schmitt: English respectively and German  beziehungsweise. Invited Talk, Semantik Oberseminar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 06/2010.

• Viola Schmitt:`ATB-A'-movement in relative clauses'. Invited Talk, Graduiertenkolleg, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 05/2009.

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt: Multidominance Induced Islands. Talk, BCFL 3, Brussels, 05/2008.

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt: Extraction from coordinate structures and inaccessible domains. Talk, WCCFL 27, Los Angeles, 05/2008.

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt: Extraction from coordinate structures and inaccessible domains.  Syntax and Semantics, UCLA, 05/2008.

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt: Extraction from coordinate structures . Talk, GLOW 31, Newcastle, 03/2008.

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt: Extraction and parallelism. Ling-Lunch, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 10/2007.

• Clemens Mayr & Viola Schmitt: `Asymmetric coordination and the CSC.  Harvard-Workshop Movement and its relation to the interfaces, Cambridge, MA, 05/2007.

• Viola Schmitt: Relative pronouns. DGfS-Workshop Microvariation. DGfS 29, Siegen, 03/2007.

• Viola Schmitt: Some  2:1 correspondences in German syntax. Syntax and Semantics, UCLA, 02/2007.

• Viola Schmitt: Relative pronouns and left dislocation. ÖLT 34, Klagenfurt, 12/2006.

• Viola Schmitt: Hessian relative clauses. GGS 31, Tübingen, 03/2005.  

• Viola Schmitt: Hessian relative clauses. ÖLT 32, Salzburg, 11/2004

• Martin Prinzhorn & Viola Schmitt: Epistemic modals and Theory of Mind, ÖLT 31, Wien, 12/2003

• Katharina Schroll, Viola Schmitt & Micha Wille: The middle construction in German, ÖLT 30, Innsbruck, 12/2002