Upcoming

Sep 2025: title tba. Syntax of the World’s Languages X, Universität Potsdam

Plenary

Dec 2022: Every language matters! Types of knowledge that come from individual descriptions. 14th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Austin Texas.

Nov 2019: Yams zählen: Sprache, Landwirtschaft und Klimawandel in Papua-Neuguinea. Climate week, Universität Potsdam.

Nov 2012: Linguistic fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. TU Chemnitz.

Invited Talks

Nov 2023: Feldforschung in Neuguinea. guest lecture, Universität Regensburg.

Mar 2023: Sprache als Kulturgut. Einstein Tag, Einstein Gymnasium, Angermünde.

May 2021: SCOPIC and the Komnzo corpus. guest lecture for the seminar ‘‘Corpus linguistics’’, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.

Feb 2021: Small-scale multilingualism in the Pacific. roundtable discussion, L’Institut des langues rares, Paris. youtube

Dec 2020: Numeral systems. guest lecture for the seminar ‘‘Language in its environment’’, Universität zu Köln.

Oct 2019: The middle template in Komnzo. guest lecture, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.

Conference presentations

Sep 2024: Can we reconstruct an ERG-ABS system for pYam? The diachrony of flagging (Cas et adpositions en diachronie), Collège de France, Paris.

Jul 2024: Traces of contact-induced divergence in the lexicons of Yam languages, 16th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, VU Amsterdam.

Jun 2024: The inclusory construction in Komnzo, Konferenz für Vielfaltslinguistik, Universität Graz.

Feb 2024: Receptive multilingualism in the Papuasphere, Language ecologies, BBAW, Berlin

Nov 2023: Mehrsprachigkeit in Neuguinea. departmental seminar, Universität Regensburg.

Aug 2023: Demonstratives and epistemic authority in Komnzo. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

May 2023: How ubiquitous is complementation? A naturalistic cross-corpus study. Naturally occuring data in and beyond linguistic typology, Università di Bologna. [with Nicholas Evans, I Wayan Arka, Danielle Barth, Henrik Bergqvist, Sonja Gipper, Dolgor Güntsetseg, Yukinori Kimoto, Dominique Knuchel, Hitomi Ōno, Eka Pratiwi, Saskia van Putten, Alan Rumsey, Andrea Schalley, Stefan Schnell, Asako Shiohara, Elena Skribnik, Yanti]

Mar 2023: Experiencer-object constructions in Papuan languages. Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument coding patterns, Universität Potsdam. [with Bruno Olsson]

Feb 2023: The inclusory construction in Komnzo. Current trends in Papuan Linguistics II, CNRS-LACITO, Paris.

Oct 2022: Dual-use collections: what documenters can learn from film makers. Language Documentation and Archiving during the Decade of Indigenous Languages Conference, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. [with Elena Weihe]

Oct 2022: Crosslinguistic preferences in encoding reported speech and thought events: evidence from a parallax spoken corpus. Cross-disciplinary perspectives on quoting and speech reporting, Université libre de Bruxelles. [with Sonja Gipper, Danielle Barth, I Wayan Arka, Henrik Bergqvist, Nicholas Evans, Volker Gast, Dolgor Guntsetseg, Norikazu Kogura, John Mansfield, Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi, Saskia van Putten, Lila San Roque, Andrea C. Schalley \& Olena Tykhostup]

Jun 2022: Language ecologies among ‘‘Papuan’’ languages: an update. Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference, Universidad de Murcia.

Mar 2022: To strike the right chord - musical metaphors in German. Festschrift symposium for Nicholas Evans, The University of Melbourne.

Jan 2022: Multilingual language ecologies in Southern New Guinea: a comparison of two villages. departmental seminar, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin.

Dec 2021: Number marking in the Tonda languages: a note on its history. Workshop on multiple exponence, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin.

Jun 2021: Front rounded vowels in the Tonda languages of the Yam family. 13th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, University of Edinburgh.

Mar 2021: Placeholders in Komnzo and Bine: A corpus view. CNRS, Lyon.

Nov 2020: Periphals in Proto-Yam. Australian National University, Canberra. [with Matthew Carroll and Nicholas Evans]

Oct 2020: Placeholders. Australian National University, Canberra.

Jul 2020: The inclusory construction in Komnzo. departmental seminar, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin.

Feb 2020: Fieldwork in Southern New Guinea. lunch lecture, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin.

Dec 2019: Multilingual language ecologies in Southern New Guinea: a comparison of two villages. Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics, CNRS-LACITO, Paris.

Oct 2019: They whatevered the what’s-that: Placeholders, recognitionals and light verbs in two languages of New Guinea. departmental seminar series, Universität zu Köln.

Apr 2019: Multilingualism in Southern New Guinea: A description and an attempt to reconstruct its past. Typology of small-scale multilingualism, CNRS, Lyon.

Mar 2019: Se zokwasi - a register of public speech in Komnzo. Vielfaltslinguistik III: Konferenz zu Typologie und Feldforschung, Universität zu Köln.

Jul 2018: Untangling the coronals in Proto-Yam. 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra. [with Matthew Carroll and Nicholas Evans]

Jun 2018: An introduction to Bine. departmental seminar series, Universität zu Köln.

May 2018: The autonomy of the verb lexicon in Komnzo. 10th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford.

Mar 2018: Human reference in Komnzo. SCOPIC workshop, Universität zu Köln.

Mar 2018: Sign metonymies in Komnzo. Vielfaltslinguistik II: Konferenz zu Typologie und Feldforschung, Humboldt Univerist"at zu Berlin.

Dec 2016: The inclusory construction and NP Syntax in Komnzo. Workshop on the languages of Southern New Guinea, Australian National University, Canberra.

Jul 2016: Multilingualism in Southern New Guinea. Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisistik, und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

May 2016: Language and space in Komnzo. Geographic grounding: Place, direction and landscape in the grammars of the world, University of Copenhagen.

May 2015: Information structure in Komnzo. Syntax-Semantik Kolloquium, Universit"at Potsdam.

May 2015: Morphological complexity in Komnzo verbs. Diversity Linguistics: Retrospect and Prospect, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Oct 2014: Multilingualism in Southern New Guinea - the case of Kómnzo and Wära. Workshop on grammatical hybridization and social conditions, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Jul 2014: The role of corpus material in grammar writing. Australian National University, Canberra.

Apr 2014: Verb templates in Kómnzo and Ngkolmpu - description, comparison and historical implications on pTonda and pYam. Workshop on the languages of Southern New Guinea, University of New England, Armidale. [with Matthew Carroll]

Jan 2014: '’Picking up the pieces’’ - distributed exponence in Komnzo. Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3, Universitas Negeri Papua, Manokwari.

Nov 2013: Tonda as a subgroup. Australian National University, Canberra.

Jul 2013: '’It is only language that we speak’’ - Intensifiers, focus markers, and cleft sentences in Kómnzo. Workshop on information structure, Australian National University, Canberra.

May 2013: TAM in Kómnzo. Workshop on the languages of Melanesia II, Australian National University, Canberra.

Mar 2013: '’Don’t talk to him! His family speaks a bit mixed.’’ Multilingualism from the perspective of the documenter. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa.

Nov 2012: Valency in Kómnzo. Australian National University, Canberra.

Jul 2012: Double yield: reduplicated plant and bird names in Nen and Kómnzo. DoBeS workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. [with Nick Evans]

Mar 2012: Japanese patterns: deictics and demonstratives in Kómnzo. Workshop on the languages of Melanesia, Australian National University, Canberra.

Feb 2012: The Morehead Upper-Maro languages of Southern New Guinea. Conference on the history, contact and classification of Papuan languages, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

Dec 2011: Affixes of all slots, Unite! - verbal morphology in Kómnzo. Australian National University, Canberra

May 2011: *Pronominal syncretism in the languages of Northern Australia. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Mar 2011: Positional Verbs in Kómnjo. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.