Talks
On this page you can find a list of my conference presentations and guest lectures, organised according to the main topic of the talk: Frisian, (the history of) English, Danish and its dialects, comparative Germanic, and other topics.
Frisian
| Title | Event | Date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| An evidential perfect in Wangerooge Frisian (Germanic, Northern Germany) | SLE 57, University of Helsinki | 22/08/24 | slides |
| From complementizer to causal subordinator: The functions of dat ‘that, so, because’ in Wangerooge Frisian | SLE 56, University of Athens | 29/08/23 | slides |
| Om (øst)frisisk i 1800-tallet [On (East) Frisian in the 19th century] | Grammatik i 1800-tallet, Danish Language Council | 14/08/23 | slides |
| A “lost” language of Northern Germany: An introduction to Wangerooge Frisian | Sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Kiel University | 20/06/23 | slides |
| A “lost” language of Northern Germany: A crash course in Wangerooge Frisian | StuTS 73, University of Frankfurt | 28/05/23 | slides handout |
| Reconstructing the definite determiner system of Wangerooge Frisian | Methodological Challenges in Historical Sociolinguistics, University of Amsterdam | 23/05/23 | slides |
| An invitation to Wangerooge Frisian | Lexical Restrictions research group, University of Amsterdam | 21/04/23 | slides |
| Sociolinguistic perspectives on Wangerooge Frisian | Historical Sociolinguistics research group, University of Amsterdam | 30/03/23 | slides |
| The word order of complement clauses in Wangerooge Frisian | StuTS 72, University of Hamburg | 04/11/22 | slides |
| Komplementsætninger i wangeroogefrisisk [Complement clauses in Wangerooge Frisian] | Grammatiknetværket, Odense | 27/10/22 | slides |
| ‘Inside (house)’ vs. ‘inside (non-house)’: A semantic shift in Wangerooge Frisian | Semantic Shifts, Fréjus | 19/09/22 | slides |
English
| Title | Event | Date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| The meaning(s) of must in Middle English | ICOME XI, University of Florence | 07/02/19 | handout |
| The meaning(s) of must in Middle English | SLE 51, University of Tallinn | 01/09/18 | handout |
| The development of must from Old to Middle English – a progress report | Language Description and Typology research group, University of Amsterdam | 25/05/18 | handout |
| Dare and the ‘degrammaticalization’ debate – reappraising the evidence | SLE 50, University of Zurich | 12/09/17 | slides |
| Middle English impersonals in cross-linguistic perspective | English Research Seminar, University of Bamberg | 29/06/17 | slides |
| Middle English impersonals in cross-linguistic perspective | Grammar and Cognition research group, University of Amsterdam | 23/06/17 | |
| Impersonal modals in Middle English | SHES 15, University of Amsterdam | 06/05/17 | slides manuscript |
| Impersonal modals in Middle English | TWIST 11, University of Leiden | 21/04/17 | slides |
| Dare and the ‘degrammaticalization’ debate – reappraising the evidence | Grammatical Variation and Change in English, KU Leuven | 04/04/17 | slides |
| To dare larks: Analogy and interference in the English modals | SOEMEHL 38, University of Leiden | 16/12/16 | slides |
| To dare larks: Analogy and interference in the English modals | NAP-dag, University of Amsterdam | 25/11/16 | slides |
Comparative Germanic linguistics
| Title | Event | Date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| That as a causal conjunction in West Germanic languages | ELSJ 17th International Spring Forum, Kyoto University | 26/05/24 | poster |
| Historical variation in verbal constructions: Two case studies from West Germanic | ACLC Seminar, University of Amsterdam | 15/11/19 | slides handout |
| Wat mutt, dat mutt: ‘Independent’ modals in West Germanic vernaculars (with Wim Caers) | TABU-dag, University of Groningen | 20/06/19 | handout |
| Wat mutt, dat mutt: ‘Independent’ modals in West Germanic vernaculars | Language Description and Typology research group, University of Amsterdam | 08/03/19 | |
| Directionals and (de)grammaticalization in the Dutch modals (with Wim Caers, Olga Fischer, and Jan Nuyts) | SLE 51, University of Tallinn | 29/08/18 | |
| Germanic ‘courage’ modals: Form, function, and history | Linguistische Werkstatt, University of Bamberg | 28/06/17 | slides |
Danish
| Title | Event | Date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| From possibility to preference: The history of Danish gide ‘be able to, feel like’ | Expressions of modality in Germanic, HU Berlin | 15/09/22 | slides |
| Om verbet gide – fra middeldansk til 1800-tallet [On the verb gide ‘feel like’ – from Middle Danish to the 19th century] | Grammatik i 1800-tallet, Danish Language Council | 15/06/22 | slides |
| From possibility to preference: The history of Danish gide ‘be able to, feel like’ | Postmodality and the life cycles of modal expressions, University of Caen | 02/06/22 | slides |
| S-passiv i 1800-tallet [The s-passive in 19th-century Danish] | Grammatik i 1800-tallet, Danish Language Council | 10/01/22 | slides |
| Habitual aspect in Danish | Habituals research group, University of Amsterdam | 17/12/21 | handout |
| Lexical restrictions on the Danish passive | Lexical Restrictions research group, University of Amsterdam | 22/10/21 | slides |
| Proksimativt færdig (’lige ved’) i ømål og østdansk [Proximative færdig (’about to’) in Insular and Eastern Danish] | Workshop on Insular and Eastern Danish dialects, University of Copenhagen | 18/06/21 | handout |
| How ‘can’ becomes ‘have to’: Middle Danish mughe and its West Germanic parallels | SØF 4, University of Cologne | 12/06/19 | handout |
| How ‘can’ becomes ‘have to’: Middle Danish mughe and its West Germanic parallels | Oudgermanistendag, University of Amsterdam | 07/06/19 | handout |
| »Det er jo let nok at bare gå og snakke«: Delte infinitiver i dansk(e) talesprog [On split infinitives in vernacular Danish] | Sprogvidenskabelig Studenterkonference, University of Copenhagen | 14/11/14 | slides |
| Refusing to subordinate? The syntax of Danish causal clauses | Young Linguists’ International Conference, Stockholm University | 28/06/14 | poster |
Other topics
| Title | Event | Date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| A cross-linguistic survey of habitual markers | ALT 15 | 05/12/24 | poster |
| Habituals around the world | Habituals and Habitual Auxiliaries workshop, Université Paris 8 | 07/10/24 | slides |
| A hierarchical approach to habitual expressions (with Hongmei Fang, Egbert Fortuin, Rene Genis, Riccardo Giomi, Kees Hengeveld, Lois Kemp, Paula Kyselica, Ezra La Roi, Hella Olbertz, Eugenie Stapert, Jacques van der Vliet, Hein van der Voort, Sjaak de Wit, Arok Wolvengrey, and Ewa Zakrzewska) | Habituals and Habitual Auxiliaries workshop, Université Paris 8 | 07/10/24 | |
| A cross-linguistic survey of habitual markers (with Eva van Lier) | SLE 57, University of Helsinki | 22/08/24 | slides |
| A hierarchical approach to habitual expressions (with Hongmei Fang, Egbert Fortuin, Rene Genis, Riccardo Giomi, Kees Hengeveld, Lois Kemp, Paula Kyselica, Ezra La Roi, Hella Olbertz, Eugenie Stapert, Jacques van der Vliet, Hein van der Voort, Sjaak de Wit, Arok Wolvengrey, and Ewa Zakrzewska) | FDG2024, Universidade Federal de São Carlos | 05/07/24 | slides |
| Habitual serial verbs (with Eva van Lier) | Serial Predicates Across Modalities research group, University of Amsterdam | 14/12/23 | slides |
| Forms and functions of habitual markers: A cross-linguistic survey | ACLC Seminar, University of Amsterdam | 11/11/22 | slides |
| A short introduction to Old East Norse | 6th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics | 22/07/21 | slides |
| What is an oxymoron? | AIM research group, University of Amsterdam | 05/04/13 | slides |