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Selected Talks & Presentations

  • Reflections on dynamicity, scalarity and telicity with special reference to fictive motion (with J. Fleischhauer), Workshop ‚Events and event structure at the limits of grammar (EESLiG)‘, University of Oxford, September 15, 2020.
  • Attributive and adverbial modification of German light verb constructions (with J. Fleischhauer), Workshop ‚Modification of Complex Predicates‘, Düsseldorf, May 24, 2019.
  • Towards a frame analysis of light verb constructions – a case study of German stehen ‘stand’ (with J. Fleischhauer), 8th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Koblenz, September 27, 2018.
  • Composing the meaning of light verb constructions – a frame account (with J. Fleischhauer), International Conference ‚Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives‘ (CoSt18), Düsseldorf, September 13, 2018
  • Interrelating dynamicity, scalarity and telicity with a special focus on fictive motion (with J. Fleischhauer), Annual Event Semantics Meeting, Cologne, November 24, 2017.
  • Why event structure templates are not enough – A frame account of bleeding and droning (with J. Fleischhauer & W. Petersen), Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Lagodekhi, September 22, 2017.
  • Serial verb constructions and covert coordinations in Edo – An analysis in a dynamic frame theory (with R. Naumann), Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Lagodekhi, September 19, 2017.
  • Underspecified changes: A dynamic, probabilistic frame theory for verbs (with R. Naumann & W. Petersen), Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Potsdam, September 9, 2017.
  • A frame analysis of the interplay of grammar and cognition in emission verbs (with J. Fleischhauer & W. Petersen), 7th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Essen, October 6, 2016.
  • On the fictive reading of German ’steigen‘ (climb, rise) – A frame account (with W. Petersen), International Conference ‚Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives‘ (CoSt16), Düsseldorf, September 17, 2016.
  • Does the rain hit the window playfully? A frame-based analysis of German hit-verbs (with A. Goldschmidt, E. Gabrovska, W.Geuder & W. Petersen), 11th TbiLLC, Tbilisi, Georgia, September 21-26, 2015.
  • Movement in frames: On German steigen ‚rise/climb‘ (with W. Geuder & W. Petersen), Sixth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Erlangen, October 1, 2014.
  • Bleeding, droning and yowling in(to) frames (with J. Fleischhauer & W. Petersen), Fourth Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science, Düsseldorf, August 27, 2014.
  • Analyzing verb polysemy in frames: A case study of German steigen ‚rise/climb‘ (with W. Geuder & W. Petersen), 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Lancaster, July 29, 2014.
  • Change of state verbs and scalar underspecification (with J. Fleischhauer), Third Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science, Düsseldorf, August 23, 2012.
  • I’m still standing:A frame account of the polysemous meanings of posture verbs referring to standing (with W. Petersen & L. Ströbel), Third Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science, Düsseldorf, August 22, 2012.
  • Decomposing posture verbs into frame attributes (with W. Petersen), 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, London, July 10, 2012
  • Sitting, standing, and lying in frames:A frame-based approach ofstative verbs of location (with W. Petersen & L. Ströbel), Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, September 27, 2011.
  • The interaction of verbs and arguments in scalar composition (with J. Fleischhauer), Workshop on the Lexicon-Syntax Interface:  Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure, Barcelona, December 2, 2010.
  • Attribute verbs within and across languages (with R. Osswald). Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs – The Identification of Verb Features, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, November 4-5, 2010. [Short presentation & poster]
  • A frame-theoretic  analysis of stative verbs of location (with W. Petersen), 4th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Bremen, October 7, 2010.
  • An analysis of the  evidential use of German perception verbs (with W. Petersen), 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Hertfordshire, July 8, 2010
  • An analysis of inferential evidentials as dimensional shifts (with W. Petersen), 8th Conference on Semantics and Formal Modelling, Nancy, March 26, 2010.
  • A lexical resource of stative verbs. (with R. Osswald and B. Schwarze), Poster presented at DGfS-Jahrestagung, Berlin, February 24 – 26, 2010. [poster]
  • A frame-theoretic account of inferential evidentials based on German perception verbs  (with W. Petersen), Second Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science, Düsseldorf, August 24, 2009.
  • Stative dimensional verbs. The 18th International Congress of Linguistics, Seoul, July 26, 2008.
  • The role of functional concepts in the classification of nouns and verbs (with A. Ortmann), DGfS-Jahrestagung Siegen, March 1, 2007 and First Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science 2007, Düsseldorf, August 22, 2007.
  • Die Rolle von Funktionalbegriffen bei der Klassifikation von Nomen und Verben. (with A. Ortmann), ZAS-Semantikzirkel, June 25, 2007. [handout]
  • Zu einer parallelen Klassifikation von Nomen und Verben (with A. Ortmann) Wuppertaler Linguistisches Forum, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, May 10, 2007.
  • Imperatives and Control in Korean (and Japanese), Berlin, ZAS-Workshop on imperatives, November 25, 2005.
  • Lexikalische, syntaktische und morphologische Faktoren der Komplementkontrolle des Koreanischen, GGS, Tübingen, May 8, 2005.