Presentations

10/2024tba. Workshop on Relative clauses: present and future challenges. University of Zurich (invited).
08/2024(with Jonathan Lee and Mark Liberman): Do we EXPECT TO find phonetic traces for syntactic traces? Interspeech 2024, Kos.
06/2024A new perspective on clitic doubling on the basis of Modern Greek. Evidence for a movement-free account . Colloquium talk, University of Göttingen (invited).
05/2024(with Johanna Benz): Against Evacuation Movement in NP-Ellipsis. CLS 60, University of Chicago (poster).
09/2023A new perspective on Clitic Doubling on the basis of Modern Greek. Evidence for a movement-free account. Linguistics Colloquium, Yale University (invited).
04/2023Gisbert Fanselow’s (2001/2003) approach to scrambling. Prospects for base-generation. Workshop on Gisbert Fanselow’s Contributions to Syntactic Theory, HU Berlin.
03/2023(with Johanna Benz & Gesoel Mendes): Against evacuation movement in NP-ellipsis. Penn Linguistics Colloquium 47, Philadelphia.
01/2023(with Lefteris Paparounas): Reciprocal = floating quantifier + anaphor: evidence from Modern Greek. NELS 53, Göttingen (poster).
11/2022Clitic Doubling in Greek. Evidence for and Implications of an Agree-based approach. IGRA-lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (invited).
10/2021(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Challenges of investigating Condition C reconstruction experimentally. NELS 52, Rutgers.
05/2021(with Lefteris Paparounas): First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek – Implications for the theory of clitic doubling, the PCC, and the syntax of first conjunct agreement. Workshop on Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions, Frankfurt.
05/2021(with Lefteris Paparounas): First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek – Implications for the theory of clitic doubling, the PCC, and the syntax of first conjunct agreement. CLS 57, Chicago.
04/2021(with Lefteris Paparounas): First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek – Implications for the theory of clitic doubling, the PCC, and the syntax of first conjunct agreement. GLOW 44.
04/2021(with Lefteris Paparounas): First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek – Implications for the theory of clitic doubling, the PCC, and the syntax of first conjunct agreement. WCCFL 39, Arizona.
11/2020Condition C in German A’-movement. Challenges in experimental research on reconstruction. LingCogSci Colloquium, University of Delaware (invited).
04/2020Against Intervention in English tough-movement – evidence from extraction of the tough-predicate. Chicago Linguistic Society (oral presentation, cancelled due to Corona virus).
04/2020(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): An experimental investigation of reconstruction for Condition C in German A′-movement. Chicago Linguistic Society (poster, cancelled due to Corona virus).
02/2020(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): An experimental investigation of reconstruction for condition C in German A‘-movement. Linguistic Evidence 2020, Tübingen.
10/2019(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Ellipsis does not bleed Lowering: Evidence from do-support and fragment answers in Finno-Ugric. NELS 50, MIT (poster).
06/2019(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Negative verb clusters in Meadow Mari and Udmurt. 3rd SOUL (Syntax of Uralic Languages), Tartu.
06/2019(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Negation, Adverbial Clitics and the Insertion of a Dummy Copula: Arguments for postsyntactic verb cluster formation in Mari and Udmurt. 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC), Budapest.
05/2019(with Philipp Weisser): The Direction of Allomorphy as a Test for the Direction of Head-Formation.  Workshop on Connecting roots and affixes, Masaryk University, Brno.
05/2019(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Negation in Mari/Udmurt verb clusters. An argument for postsyntactic Lowering. GLOW 42, Oslo.
05/2019(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Condition C reconstruction in German A’-movement: experimental results. GLOW 42, Oslo (poster).
04/2019Theories of resumption and locality. Roundtable on Islands, Extraction and Resumption, University of Tübingen (invited).
03/2019(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Ambiguous heads. Optional Clitic Placement in Negated Udmurt Verb Clusters. Workshop on Contrast and opposition in „free“ phenomena, DGfS 41, Bremen.
03/2019The DP vs. NP-debate. Why previous arguments for the DP-hypothesis fail and what a good argument for it should look like. Workshop New horizons in the study of nominal phrases, DGfS 41, Bremen.
11/2018(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Condition C reconstruction in German: Methodological insights and theoretical implications. Workshop on Condition C Reconstruction. Queen Mary University of London (invited).
11/2018(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Two Ways of Repairing the Non-Finality Requirement. Prosodic Inversion and BE-Support in Mari. Workshop on repair in morphosyntax (WORM), Leipzig University.
10/2018(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Reconstruction in German wh-movement. An experimental investigation. NELS 49, Cornell University (poster).
10/2018(with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): A Reverse Wackernagel Clitic: Negation in Udmurt and Mari Verb Clusters – An argument for the ordering of post-syntactic movement operations NELS 49, Cornell University (alternate/poster).
09/2018(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Reconstruction in German wh-movement. An experimental investigation. CGSW 33, Göttingen.
09/2018Apparent intervention in German Tough-Movement and its Implications. CGSW 33, Göttingen.
09/2018(with Gerhard Schaden): Inflected participles in Alemannic. Workshop on Implicit Subjects and Non-Finite Verb-Forms, Paris 8.
07/2018(with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Reconstruction in German A‘-movement. An experimental investigation. SynSem-Colloquium, University of Potsdam.
05/2018Intervention in tough-movement – evidence from German. Kolloquium Syntax and its interfaces, University of Leipzig.
05/2018Displaced morphology in German. An argument for post-syntactic morphology.Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.
03/2018(with Jana Häussler and Josef Bayer): That-trace effects in German. Unrelated to subjecthood, unrelated to extraction. Workshop on Referential and relational approaches to syntactic asymmetries, DGfS 2018, Stuttgart.
02/2018Intervention in tough-movement. Evidence from German. Not another workshop on verb raising, Leiden (invited).
01/2018Doubling in morphosyntax and what it tells us about grammar. Workshop on Patterns of repetition in language use, Leipzig (keynote).
09/2017(with Gerhard Schaden): The Syntax and Semantics of Inflected Participles in Allemannic German. Workshop Participles: form, use and meaning, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich.
06/2017(with Gerhard Schaden): The Syntax and Semantics of Inflected Participles in Allemannic German. Workshop `The Language Faculty – La faculté de langage dans les facultés de langues’. Université de Nantes.
05/2017Resumptive Prolepsis – an alternative to long A’-movement in German (and beyond). Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna (invited).
05/2017Revisiting the NP vs. DP debate. Workshop Köpfigkeit und/oder grammatische Anarchie? Free University of Berlin (invited).
05/2017Displaced morphology in German. An argument for post-syntactic morphology. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Potsdam.
03/2017(with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach): Sign language agreement. Common ingredients, but unusual recipe. GLOW 40, Leiden University.
03/2017Reconciling parasitic participles with displaced morphology: Implications for morphological selection. GLOW 40, Leiden (poster/alternate).
02/2017(with Doreen Georgi): The matching effect in resumption: a local analysis based on Case attraction and top-down derivation. Workshop on order and direction of grammatical operations, Pavia.
01/2017On the limits of variation in West-Germanic verb clusters: Evidence from displaced morphology in German for the existence of clusters with 213 order. Colloquium, University of Göttingen (invited).
12/2016Displaced Morphology in German. Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 31, Stellenbosch (South Africa).
10/2016Problems with late merged raising relatives – and why late
merger should be combined with the matching analysis. GGS 2016, Leipzig.
10/2016Displaced Morphology in German: Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. NELS 47, UMass, Amherst, MA.
04/2016(with Doreen Georgi): Local modeling of the gap/resumptive complementarity under top-down Case attraction. GLOW 2016, Göttingen.
02/2016(with Roland Pfau): The order of Agree and Merge – evidence from sign language agreement. Workshop Sign language agreement revisited: new theoretical and experimental perspectives (AG 7), DGfS 2016, Konstanz.
01/2016(with Doreen Georgi): Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: local modeling under top-down derivation. Séminaire LaGraM, University Paris 8.
12/2015Displaced Morphology in German: Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. Morphology Days 2015, Leuven.
10/2015(with Doreen Georgi): Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: local modeling under top-down derivation. The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2015), Paris.
09/2015(with Doreen Georgi): Local modeling of the gap/resumptive complementarity under top-down Case attraction. Workshop on Obligatoriness, Eleventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilissi, Georgia.
05/2015213 verb clusters – Evidence for the existence of a rare cluster type from displaced morphology in German. Workshop on Verb clusters. University of Amsterdam/Meertens Instituut (invited).
02/2015(with Doreen Georgi): Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: local modeling under top-down derivation. Linguistics Seminar Series, University College London (invited).
12/2014213 verb clusters exist. Evidence from new diagnostics to distinguish V(P)R and the 3rd construction: Misplaced z(u) and short relative clause extraposition in (Swiss) German. Dialect Syntax: The State of the Art, Frankfurt.
11/2014Wenn Deplatziertes genau richtig ist – das Infinitiv-zu im deutschen Verbcluster. Inaugural lecture (as „Privatdozent“), University of Zurich. Stream – Download (mp4)
10/2014(with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption: Evidence for top-down derivation. Theory of Grammar Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig.
09/2014(with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption: Evidence for top-down derivation. CGSW 29, York.
09/2014213 verb clusters exist – Evidence from misplaced z(u) and short relative clause extraposition in German. CGSW 29, York.
09/2014(with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption: Evidence for top-down derivation. SinFonIJA, Graz (poster).
09/2014213 verb clusters exist – Evidence from misplaced z(u) and short
relative clause extraposition in German. SinFonIJA, Graz.
06/2014Displaced morphology in German and its implications for the theory of verb clusters. CRISSP Seminar, HUBrussel/KU Leuven, Brussels (invited).
03/2014Deriving mismatches in ATB-movement: Asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. Séminaire de recherche, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva (invited).
01/2014213 – 3rd construction or verb cluster? Evidence from misplaced z
in favor of a VPR-analysis. Institute Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig.
09/2013213 – 3rd construction or Verb Projection Raising? Workshop on Swiss German syntax, Villa Salmi, Arezzo.
09/2013Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. The placement of the infinitival particle te/zu/z. Workshop on Swiss German syntax, Villa Salmi, Arezzo.
06/2013(with Ellen Brandner & Gerhard Schaden): German Double and Triple Compound Perfects. Workshop on aorists and perfects across languages. Poitiers.
06/2013Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. The placement of the infinitival particle te/zu. Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen (invited).
06/2013Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. The placement of the infinitival particle te/zu. Institute Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig.
03/2013(with Doreen Georgi): New arguments for top-down derivation in syntax from resumptive drop and case attraction. Top-down-day, University of Leipzig.
03/2013Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. Workshop on the interaction of syntactic primitives, DGfS 2013, Potsdam.
11/2012New evidence for postsyntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching VP – The case of verb doubling. Colloquium, Department of linguistics, Potsdam (invited).
11/2012(with Jutta Hartmann & Andreas Konietzko): On the Limits of Non-Parallelism in ATB-Movement. Experimental Evidence for strict syntactic Identity. Workshare 2012, Nantes.
11/2012Deriving morphological and reconstruction asymmetries in ATB-movement: Asymmetric extraction + deletion. Workshare 2012, Nantes.
09/2012(with Ellen Brandner and Gerhard Schaden): Zur Syntax und Semantik des doppelten Perfekt aus alemannischer Sicht. IGDD2012, Kiel.
07/2012Economy issues in the analysis of resumption. Why movement and base-generation sometimes compete and why they sometimes don’t. Resumptive pronoun workshop, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (invited).
03/2012Trying to make sense of verb cluster variation. DGfS 2012, Frankfurt.
02/2012(with Jutta Hartman & Andreas Konietzko): On the limits of Non-Parallelism in syntax. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.
02/2012(with Jana Häussler, Josef Bayer & Markus Bader): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.
01/2012New evidence for postsyntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching base order. Institute Colloqium, University of Leipzig.
11/2011New evidence for postsyntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching base order. The 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University of Toronto.
11/2011(with Josef Bayer, Markus Bader & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. 
The 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University of Toronto.
06/2011(with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. CGSW 26, Amsterdam.
06/2011(with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach): A non-hybrid approach to sign language agreement. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory. Venice.
06/2011(with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. GGS, Stuttgart.
05/2011(with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. Kolloquium, University of Leipzig (invited)
02/2011Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB: A derivational ellipsis account. Invited Lecture, University of Cologne (Linguistischer Arbeitskreis).
12/2010Evidence for semantically active covert head-mvt – Scope in Verb Projection Raising. Workshop on Verb movement: Its nature, triggers and effects. Amsterdam.
11/2010Why resumptive pronouns are distributed the way they are and why Swiss German happens to be interesting in this respect. Invited lecture, University of Goettingen. 
10/2010ATB as Asymmetric Extraction + Derivational Ellipsis. The 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Upenn, Philadelphia.
08/2010(with Doreen Georgi): DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree: a unification with possessor agreement.GLOW-in-Asia VIII, Beijing
06/2010(with Sjef Barbiers, Ellen Brandner, Olaf Koeneman, Marika Lekakou, Cecilia Poletto, and Gerhard Schaden): Meso-comparative syntax of perfect doubling. 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting, San Sebastian.
06/2010(with Doreen Georgi): Unifying double agreement and possessor agreement. 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting, San Sebastian.
05/2010(with Doreen Georgi): Double agreement in possessor doubling – against DP-over-NP and in favor of NP-over-DP. GGS, Berlin.
04/2010ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. GLOW 33, Wroclaw.
04/2010ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. SWIGG/KWIGG, Konstanz.
03/2010ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. Syntaxcolloquium, University of Leipzig (invited).
03/2010(with Doreen Georgi): Double agreement in possessor doubling: against DP-over-NP and in favor of NP-over-DP. Syntaxcolloquium, University of Leipzig .
02/2010An Alemannic challenge to the FOFC. DGfS 2010, Berlin.
02/2010(with Claudia Bucheli): From directional preposition to purpose marker to infinitive marker – on the diachrony and geography of the particles introducing complements of motion verbs in Alemannic. DGfS 2010, Berlin.
02/2010(with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach) Sign language agreement is syntactic. the importance of auxiliaries. TIN-dag 2010, Utrecht.
12/2009(with Claudia Bucheli Berger) On so-called verb doubling in Alemannic. General Linguistics Colloquium, University of Zurich.
11/2009ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. Guest lecture, English Department, University of Tübingen.
09/2009On a movement paradox in verb projection raising. Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique à Paris, Paris.
09/2009(with Ellen Brandner): Die Bewegungsverbkonstruktion im Alemannischen: Wie Unterschiede in der Kategorie einer Partikel zu syntaktischer Variation führen. 3. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), Zurich.
09/2009On so-called verb doubling in Swiss German. The hybrid particle go and its implications for the verbal complex and verb projection raising. Workshop on Agreement, doubling, and the DP, Leiden.
05/2009Resumptives and ATB – evidence for CP-coordination and ellipsis.
Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 24, Brussels.
05/2009(with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 24, Brussels.
05/2009Bewegungsparadoxe bei Verb Projection Raising. GGS, Leipzig.
04/2009(with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Swiss Workshop in Generative Grammar (SWIGG), Neuchatel.
03/2009Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion. Repair workshop, DGfS 2009, Osnabrück.
03/2009(with Josef Bayer): That-trace effects and resumption as the result of Improper Movement. Repair workshop, DGfS 2009, Osnabrück.
02/2009Whe movement and base-generation compete – on the definition of the Reference Set, the typology of resumption, and ranked economy constraints. TIN-dag 2009, Utrecht.
01/2009(with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Syntax Colloquium, Konstanz.
11/2008Whenn Movement and Base-generation compete: On the definition of the Reference Set, Scope, and the Typology of resumption. Syntax Colloquium, Konstanz.
10/2008Wenn Basisgenerierung und Bewegung im Wettbewerb stehen: Die Definition von Referenzmenge, Skopus und die Typologie der Resumption. Workshop Perspektiven Minimalistischer Syntax, Leipzig.
09/2008(with Ellen Brandner) Crossing the lake: motion verb constructiosn in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Workshop European Dialect Syntax III, Venice.
07/2008English Locative Inversion as a V2 residue –
a generalized TP and exceptional verb movement.LAGB 2008, Essex.
07/2008English Locative Inversion as a V2 residue – the role of focus and the EPP. Guest lecture, University of Tübingen (invited).
07/2008Why resumptive pronouns are distributed the way they are and why Swiss German happens to be interesting in this respect. Fachbereichskolloquium, University of Konstanz.
05/2008Locative inversion in English as a V2 residue. Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz.
05/2008Lokativ-Inversion im Englischen als V2? GGS, Berlin.
02/2008Variation in resumption as an argument for stochastic evaluation. Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistics workshop (DEALl II), Leiden.
02/2008Locative inversion in English as V2. TIN-dag 2008, Utrecht.
10/2007The syntax of resumption in Swiss relatives; on oblique case and variation. invited lecture, Geneva.
10/2007Resumption as copying. Workshop on short wh-words, Konstanz.
06/2007(with Gerd Bräuer, Monique Honegger, Afra Sturm and Nina Zimnik): Didactical writing approaches in the context of «dual literacy» in teacher education. 4th International Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Bochum.
05/2007(with Guido Seiler): Variation als Default. Theoretische Implikationen. GGS 25, Konstanz.
05/2007(with Guido Seiler): Variation as the default or the rule? Swiss relatives, revisited. Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax, York.
02/2006Principle C effects in German relative clauses. TIN-dag 2006 (taalkunde in Nederland), Utrecht.
11/2005Reconstruction for Principle C in German relatives. In favor of a Matching Analysis. SAM2, Utrecht.
06/2005Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis. CGSW (Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop) 20, Tilburg
05/2005Über eine Alternative zur langen A’-Bewegung: GGS 2005, Tübingen.
04/2005Long A’-movement in a resumptive disguise: resumptive prolepsis constructions in German and Dutch: GLOW 2005, Geneva
01/2005On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch TIN-dag 2005 (Taalkunde in Nederland) 2005, Utrecht.
12/2004Control into finite Clauses as resumption: Console XIII, Tromsoe.
11/2004Control into finite Clauses as resumption. SAM 1 (Syntax AiO Meeting).
10/2004
Warum zürichdeutsche Relativsätze interessant sind. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Bern.
07/2004Matching in Zürich German relative clauses as distributed deletion; 1st Bilbao-Deusto Conference in Linguistics, Bilbao.
06/2004Matching in Zürich German relative clauses as distributed deletion; TABU-dag 2004, Groningen
05/2004Matching in Zürichdeutschen Relativsätzen als distribuierte Tilgung, GGS 2004, Mannheim
02/2003Extending Holmberg’s generalization? Local A-scrambling in Japanese, Russian and Bantu Inversion, and English possessives. Grammatical Models colloquium, University of Tilburg.
06/2001Nonfinitheit im Amharischen. Kolloquium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.
04/2001Empirische und theoretische Probleme der Lokativinversion. Kolloquium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.
01/2001Zur theoretischen Modellierung von Lokativinversion. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Universität zu Köln.