Talks


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  1. Raetem lanwis blong yumi Workshop on writing local languages, Lukaotem Gud Santo Festtival, Santo, Vanuatu. September 20, 2012.
  2. Negated polarity questions as speech act denegations Semantics and Linguistic Theory (= SALT) 22, University of Chicago, May 18-20, 2012.
  3. Modality, tense and negation in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu). Talk, May 16, University of Chicago.
  4. Questioning speech acts: An explanation of bias and negation in questions. Workshop Fragen im Diskurs, 1. Netzwerktreffen, University Frankfurt/Main, March 10, 2012.
  5. Fragen, Negation in Fragen und Beantwortung von Fragen in einer dynamischen Sprechakttheorie. Semantikzirkel, ZAS Berlin, 3. März 2012
  6. Linguistische Feldforschung am Beispiel des DoBeS-Projekts Languages of Southwest Ambrym. Methodenworkshop, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 28. Februar 2012.
  7. Sprechakte in der Semantik: Warum Sprechakte subordinierbar sind, und wie sie subordiniert werden können.. Vortrag Universität Wuppertal, 26. Januar 2012.
  8. Approximate and precise use of language. Conference Vague Language -- Vage Law, Universität Freiburg, 20. - 21. Januar 2012.
  9. Semantik und Informationsstruktur definitorisch- generischer Sätze., Universität Freiburg, 19. Januar 2012.
  10. Questions and question acts. Invited talk, 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, Dec. 19-21, 2011.
  11. Semantic representation formats for focus. Student Workshop, SFB 632 "Information Structure", Potsdam. Dedember 2, 2011.
  12. Causativity in language: Unaccusatives, causative zlternation, continuous causation in the dative alternation. ZIF Bielefeld, November 10, 2011.
  13. An explanation of Condition C effects under apparent reconstruction. Workshop Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses, ZAS Berlin, July 8-9, 2011.
  14. Semantics and information structure of definitional sentences. Graz Workshop on Information Structure, Universität Graz, June 17-18, 2011.
  15. Predicate markers in Daakie, an Austronesian language of Ambrym, Vanuatu: Realis and Irrealis. Workshop Speaking of Possibilities and Time II, University of Göttingen, June 3-4, 2011.
  16. Notes on Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu): Sounds and modality.18th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Language Association (AFLA) 18, Harvard University, March 4-6, 2011.
  17. How to interpret "expletive" negation under bevor in German. Workshop Beyond ever and any -- Challening theories of NPI licensing. University of Göttingen, January 14-15, 2011.
  18. Die Sprachen von Südwest-Ambrym, Vanuatu: Einblicke in ein linguistisches Dokumentationsprojekt. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, December 16, 2010 (with Kilu von Prince and Soraya Hosni).
  19. An optimality-theoretic treatment of the hedonic implicatures of taste and smell, Tandem Workshop on Optimality in Language and Geometric Approaches to Cognition, ZAS Berlin, December 11-13, 2010.
  20. Superlative quantifiers as meta speech acts, with Ariel Cohen, Conference Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Contexts, and Models. November 19-21, 2010, University of Riga, Latvia.
  21. Speech acts: Not truth-conditional, but part of semantics, Conference "Sentence types, Moods, and Illocutionary Forces", November 4-6, 2010, ZAS Berlin.
  22. Expletive Negation unter bevor Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, April 15, 2010.
  23. Embedding Speech Acts. Utrecht University, April 12, 2010.
  24. Wir gehen nicht nach Hause, bevor wir nicht die Negation in diesem Satz erklärt haben. Workshop Ereignssemantik, HU Berlin, December 12/13, 2009.
  25. (with Roland Hinterhölzl) Modal particles in adnominal and adverbial clauses. Workshop on Root Phenomena, ZAS Berlin, September 2-4, 2009.
  26. The pragmatics of vagueness and approximation. Wroclaw University, June 1, 2009.
  27. Embedding speech acts. Invited talk, Conference Recursion in Language and Cognition, Amherst, May 26-28, 2009.
  28. Definitional generics as second-order predication. Invited talk, Conference Genericity: Interpretation and Use, Institute Nicod, EHESS Paris, May 11-13, 2009.
  29. Counting configurational entities. Talk at Harvard University, Cambridge/Mass., April 10, 2009.
  30. Equational intensional "reconstruction" relatives. Talk at the Syntax/Semantics Reading Group, MIT, Cambridge/Mass., April 8, 2009.
  31. Counting configurational entities. Universität Tübingen, March 23, 2009.
  32. Different kinds of count nouns and plurals. Invited talk, Syntax of the World's languages III, Freie Universität Berlin, September 25-28, 2008.
  33. What's the difference between three, at least three, three or more and more than two? Invited talk at the Workshop Contrastiveness in information structure and scalar implicatures, at the 18th International Congress of Linguists in Seoul, Korea, July 21, 2008.
  34. Masses and countables. Cognitive and linguistic factors. Invited talk, Formal Semantics in Moscow, April 5, 2008.
  35. Approximation as strategic communication. Moscow State University, April 2, 2008.
  36. What do Contrastive Topics and Frame Setters have in Common? The Role of Addressing and Delimitation in Information Structure., Conference on Contrastive Information Structure Analysis, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, March 18-19, 2008.
  37. Fünf linguistische Schnittstellen, Universität Bielefeld, December 12, 2007.
  38. Bimanuale Koordination und Topik/Kommentar-Strukturierung. Universität Bielefeld, December 12, 2007.
  39. Basic notions of information structure. Invited talk, XXX. Romanistentag, Workshop Fokus und Hintergrund in den romanischen Sprachen, Universität Wien, September 24, 2007.
  40. Masses and countables: Cognitive and linguistic factors. Invited talk at The syntax and semantics of measurement, CASTL, University of Tromsø, September 17-18, 2007. Extended presentation.
  41. Bimanuale Koordination und Topik/Kommentar- Struktur. Talk at Berlin Gesture Center, Museum für Kommunikation, June 29, 2007.
  42. Grundbegriffe der Informationsstruktur. Inivited talk, LIPP Symposium, Universität München, June 21-23, 2007.
  43. Approximation as strategic communication. Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, May 23, 2007.
  44. Stressed postposed additive particles as markers of givenness. Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University, May 1, 2007.
  45. Approximation as strategic communication, Invited Talk, West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of California at Berkeley, April 28, 2007.
  46. More on the difference between more than two and at least three, University of California at Santa Cruz, April 26, 2007.
  47. Postposed additive particles -- Markers of givenness? Workshop on Information Structure in Child and Adult Language, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, March 29-31, 2007.
  48. The origin of topic/comment structure, of predication, and of focusation in asymmetric bimanual coordination, Nascent Languages Conference, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, October 4-8, 2006.
  49. Question-answer congruence and the proper representation of focus, Tenth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Brandial), University of Potsdam, September 11-13, 2006.
  50. Can focus accenting be eliminated in favor of deaccenting of given constituents?, Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language, Beseny/ouml;telek, Hungary, August 23-26, 2006.
  51. How to be doubly negative but still quite happy. Workshop Theory and Evidence in Semantics, University of Groningen, June 1, 2006.
  52. Three, more than two, at least three: What's the difference? Universität Leipzig, May 24, 2006.
  53. The pragmatics of precise and approximative interpretations of number words. University of Texas at Austin, April 4, 2006.
  54. Three, more than two, at least three: What's the difference? Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, March 3, 2006.
  55. Remarks on the interpretation of bare NPs: Type shift, information structure and the nature of the mass/count distinction. A Bare Workshop, University of Utrecht, December 22, 2005
  56. More on the approximative interpretation of number words. Amsterdam Colloquium, December 19-21, 2005.
  57. More on the difference between more than two and at least three. Workshop QP Structure, Nominalizations, and the Role off DP. University of Saarbrücken, December 16-17, 2005.
  58. More on the difference between more than two and at least three. Workshop Even and Friends, Paris, November 5, 2005.
  59. More on approximative number words. Semantiknetzwerk, Berlin, October 17, 2005.
  60. A functional similarity between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure. Blankensee-Colloquium Language Evolution: Cognitive and Cultural Factors, Berlin-Schmöckwitz, July 14-16, 2005.
  61. Swahili: Einige Bemerkungen zur Syntax. Universität Hannover, June 29, 2005.
  62. Accenting and deaccenting arguments.Workshop on Weak Words, Konstanz/Freudental, April 14-16, 2005.
  63. Negated antonyms and approximative number words: Two applications of bidirectional optimality theory.Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Vienna, April 11, 2005.
  64. Conjunction and disjunction of imperatives. Talk at Workshop Mood and (In)Subordination, ZAS, November 5-7, 2004.
  65. The accomplished mathematician he claims to be: The semantics of Modal Compatibility Relatives Sinn und Bedeutung IX, Nijmegen, November 1-3, 2004.
  66. Wenn die Seele spricht: Über einen Sinnspruch von Schiller Vortrag auf Workshop Spracherwerb, unter anderem, ZAS Berlin, October 29, 2004.
  67. Imprecise Interpretations and Negated Antonyms: Two Applications of Optimality Theory in Pragmatics. Workshop of Semantiknetzwertk, Nijmegen, October 30 - 31.
  68. Imprecise Interpretations and Negated Antonyms: Two Applications of Optimality Theory in Pragmatics, Colloquium Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Royal Academy of Science of the Netherlands (KNAW), Amsterdam, October 27 - 28, 2004.
  69. Bare Plurals: Kind-referring, indefinites, both, or neither? Todai University, Tokyo, September 24, 2004.
  70. Embedded speech acts. Nanzan University, Nagoya, September 21, 2004.
  71. Imprecise interpretations and negated antonyms: Two applications of Bidirectional Optimality Theory. Kobe University, Kobe, September 17, 2004.
  72. On being vague and on being not unhappy: Two applications of bidirectional optimality theory. Stanford University, April 13, 2004.
  73. Semantics below and above speech acts. Stanford University, April 9, 2004.
  74. Proposition sets or structured meanings: That's the question. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 7, 2004.
  75. "Semantics below and above speech acts." Semantics reading group, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 5, 2004.
  76. "Semantics below and above speech acts." Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2, 2004.
  77. "Semantics below and above speech acts". Roman Jakobson Lecture, Prague Linguistic Circle, Prague, March 15, 2004.
  78. "Do we need Structured Question Meanings?", workshop Information structure and the architecture of grammar: A typological perspective, University of Tübingen, February 1-2, 2004.
  79. "Semantics and pragmatics of the dative alternation (in the face of new evidence from the WWW" Invited Talk, Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, theoretical, and computational perspectives, University of Tübingen, January 29-31, 2004.
  80. "Bare plurals: Kind-referring, Indefinites, Both, or Neither?" Invited talk, Fifth Syntax and Semantics Conference, Paris, October 2-4, 2003.
  81. "The mereological approach to aspectual composition". Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, July 4, 2003.
  82. Polarity Items in Questions. Invited talk, Korean Socity of Logic and Information, Inha University, Incheon, Korea, June 28, 2003.
  83. "Bare plurals - Ambiguous or not?" Seoul National University, Korea, June 27, 2003.
  84. Measure expressions and M-implicatures". Seoul National University, Korea, June 27, 2003.
  85. "Quantifiers in Questions". Invited talk, KASELL International Conference on English Language and Linguistics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 26, 2003.
  86. "Semantic and pragmatic conditions for the Dative Alternation". Invited talk, KASELL International Conference on English Language and Linguistics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 25, 2003.
  87. "Polarity items in questions". Workshop on Polarity, Scalar Phenomena, Implicatures: At the Interface between Grammar and the Cognitive System. Dept. of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, June 18-20, 2003.
  88. Wie man in fünfzehn Jahren einige semantische Probleme löst. Humboldt-University of Berlin, May 15=4, 2003.
  89. Kind of kind reference: Bare plurals - Ambiguous or Nor? Invited talk, Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIII, Seattle, May 9-11, 2003.
  90. "Measure Expressions and M-Implicatures". Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, München, February 28, 2003.
  91. Polarity Items in Questions.Talk at the workshop on polarity and scalarity, University of Potsdam, January 23-24, 2003.
  92. Kasussynkretismus der Feminina im Deutschen in typologischer Perspektive. Vortrag am Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, 22. Januar 2003.
  93. Negative Polarität. Vortrag im Kolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft der Universität Potsdam, 21. Januar 2003.
  94. Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschung zwischen Philologie, Logik und Biologie. Vortrag bei der Veranstaltung Perspektiven geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung, Berlin. Begleitmaterialien.
  95. Accomodating indefinites, Inivted talk, Workshop Information Structure in Context, Universität Stuttgart, November 14-16, 2002.
  96. Linguistic factors in cockpit communication. 43th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Berlin, September 24-26, 2002.
  97. Embedded Speech Acts. Talk at the Workshop In the Mood, Universität Frankfurt am Main, June 20-22, 2002.
  98. "The mereological approach to aspectual composition", Conference Perspectives on Aspect, University of Utrecht, December 12-14, 2001.
  99. "Kinds of kind reference". Workshop on Genericity, Universität Köln, November 10, 2001.
  100. "Lexical Representations and the nature of the Dative Alternation". University of Amsterdam, November 9, 2001.
  101. "Genericity: Kind reference and generalizations". Universität Leipzig, October 10, 2001.
  102. "Quantification into Speech Acts". Invited talk, Fourth Tbilisi Symposion, September 23-28, 2001, Borjomi, Georgia.
  103. "Manner Components in Lexical Representations: The Case of the Dative Alternation". Conference on The Lexicon in Linguistic Theory, University of Düsseldorf, August 24, 2001.
  104. "Association with Focus Phrases". Invited Talk, Workshop on Topic, Focus and Intonation, 2001 LSA Summer Institute, University of Santa Barabara, July 20, 2001
  105. "Speech Acts and Truth-Conditional Meaning". Invited Talk, Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Jerusalem, June 11, 2001.
  106. "Precise and Vague Interpretation of Measure Terms". The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 22, 2001.
  107. "Genericity: A Guided Tour." The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 20, 2001
  108. "Precise and Vague Interpretations of Measure Terms: An Easy Piece in Bidirectional Optimality Theory". Conference Sinn und Bedeutung 5, Amsterdam, December 18-20, 2000.
  109. "Topics and Speech Acts". Workshop on Topic-Comment-Structure, Wuppertal, November 17-19, 2000.
  110. "Alternatives for Aspectual Particles: The Semantics of still and already. Workshop on Presuppositions in Honor of Hans Kamp, Stuttgar, October 4, 2000.
  111. "Alternatives for Aspectual Particles: Semantics of still and already Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting 26, February 20, 2000.
  112. "Manner Components in the Dative Alternation in English". Workshop Linguistic Form and its Computation, Bad Teinach, October 12, 1999.
  113. "Die Dativ-Alternation im Englischen". University of Munich, July 23, 1999.
  114. "Quantifikation in der Frage". Humboldt University, Berlin, July 20, 1999.
  115. "Manner in Dative Alternation". University of Konstanz, April 26, 1999
  116. "Kasus-Synkretismus im Deutschen in typologischer Perspektive". University of Konstanz, April 26, 1999
  117. "Manner in Dative Alternation". West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVIII, Tucson, April 10, 1999.
  118. "Manner in Dative Alternation". New York University, March 30, 1999.
  119. "Quantifying into question acts". Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) IX, University of California at Santa Cruz, February 1999
  120. "Deakzentuierte Indefinita und Quantifikation". Humboldt University, Berlin, December 18, 1998.
  121. "Ereignis-Homomorphismen in der lexikalischen Semantik". Humboldt University, Berlin, December 16, 1998.
  122. "For a structured account of questions and answers". Invited talk, Conference Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Leipzig, December 13, 1998.
  123. "Arguments for structured question meanings". Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, October 12, 1998
  124. "Additive particles under stress". Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) VIII, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 8-10, 1998
  125. "Non-novel indefinites in adverbial quantification". Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 10, 1998.
  126. "Syntax of focus-sensitive operators". Conference on Semantics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 14-16, 1997.
  127. "Scope inversion under the rise-fall contour in German". Dept. of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, November 20, 1997.
  128. "Evidence for focus phrases", Institute for General and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tuebingen, November 13, 1997.
  129. "Der sprachliche Blick auf Ereignisse: Aspekt, Aktionsart, Zeitkonstitution". Studium Generale, University of Tuebingen, November 12, 1997.
  130. "Arguments for Property Arguments". Conference on Cross-linguistic variation in semantics, LSA Linguistic Institute, Cornell University, July 26, 1997.
  131. "The Expression of Quantization". Workshop on Cross-linguistic variation in semantics, LSA Linguistic Institute, Cornell University, July 16, 1997.
  132. "On the semantic representation of movement verbs and verbs expressing change". Conference on Events as Grammatical Objects LSA Linguistic Institute, Cornell University, June 27, 1997.
  133. "Association with Focus and Association with Focus Phrases / Focus in Questions and Answers", two lectures at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 16-17, 1997.
  134. "Die grammatische Repr”sentation von Fokus". Centrum f¸r Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, University of Munich, June 6, 1997.
  135. "Investigations into the Nature of Focus", series of 3 lectures, City University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 19-21, 1997.
  136. "The Algebra of Telicity", City University of Hong Kong, May 17, 1997
  137. "The Meaning of Noun Phrases", National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 12, 1997.
  138. "Frameworks for the Representation of Focus", Conference on Formal Grammar, 9th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Prague, August 11, 1996.
  139. "Investigations into the Nature of Focus". Three talks given in the Ninth Vilém Mathesius lecture series, Prague, Charles University, August 7 - 9, 1996.
  140. "Frameworks for the Representation of Focus", Workshop on Language, Logic and Computation, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, May 31 - June 2, 1996.
  141. "Pragmatic Strengthening in Plural Predications and Donkey Sentences", Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) VI, Rutgers University, April 26-28, 1996.
  142. "Association with Focus and Association with Focus Phrases", Dept. of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Cruz, April 5, 1996.
  143. "Association with Focus and Associatin with Focus Phrases", Dept. of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles, March 15, 1996.
  144. "Gender in Language and Gender in Society", Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, January 31, 1996.
  145. "Scope Inversion in German under the Rise-Fall Pattern", Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University, October 13, 1995.
  146. "`Weak' and `Strong' Interpretations of Donkey Sentences and Plural Predications', Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, October 9, 1995.
  147. "Parametrized Sum Individuals and Plural Anaphora", Brown University, Providence, September 25, 1995.
  148. "Parametrized Sum Individuals and Plural Anaphora", Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, September 18, 1995.
  149. "Telicity in Movement", invited talk, Conference on Time, Space and Movement 5, Chateau de Bonas, Université le Mirail, Toulouse, June 24, 1995.
  150. "Befehl, Erlaubnis und Boolesche Operatoren", Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe Strukturelle Linguistik, Berlin, July 2, 1995.
  151. "Schwache und starke Intepretation von Pluralaussagen in Eselssätzen", Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe Strukturelle Linguistik, Berlin, June 30, 1995.
  152. "Focus and/or Context: A Second Look at 'Second Occurrence Utterances'", invited talk, Conference on Context and Grammar, Charles University, Prague, February 13, 1995.
  153. "Plural Reference with Parametrized Sum Individuals". Invited talk, Rutgers University, February 3, 1995.
  154. Introduction to "Linguistic Dimension of Information Structure", European Research Conference on Logic, Language and Information: Inference and Information Structure within Computational Semantics", Espinho, Portugal, December 11, 1994.
  155. "Quantization in Natural Language", invited talk, workshop "Knowledge Representation and Models", Copenhagen Business School, December 5, 1994.
  156. "Scope Inversion under the Rise-Fall Pattern in German", invited talk, University of Indiana, Bloomington, November 4, 1994.
  157. "Weak and Strong Intepretation of Donkey Sentences and Predications on Sum Individuals", Invited talk, Conference on Recent Developments in the Semantics of Natural Languages, Heinrich Fabri Institute of the University of Tübingen, October 9-16, 1994.
  158. "What Semantics is About", invited evening lecture, 6th Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Copenhagen, August 10, 1994.
  159. "Focus and Operator Scope in German", Symposium on the Syntax/Semantics Interface, 6th Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Copenhagen, August 9, 1994.
  160. "Focus and Operator Scope in German", Invited Talk, Conference "Focus & Natural Language Processing", Schloss Wolfsbrunnen, Kassel, June 13, 1994.
  161. "Semantics and Pragmatics of Polarity Items". Invited Talk, Fourth conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT IV), University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., May 6, 1994.
  162. "Focus and Operator Scope in German", Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 10, 1994.
  163. "The Origins of Telicity". Invited Talk, Conference on Events and Grammar, Bar Ihlan University, Israel, November 23, 1993.
  164. "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Polarity Items". Invited Talk, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October 22, 1993.
  165. "Focus: Some Syntactic and Semantic Considerations". Invited Talk, ELSNET Summer School on Prosody, University College London, July 20, 1993.
  166. "Focus, Presupposition, and Dynamic Interpretation", University of Oslo, June 9, 1993.
  167. "Focus and Quantification", University of Frankfurt, June 8, 1993.
  168. "Focus, Presupposition, and Dynamic Interpretation", University of Tübingen, June 7, 1993.
  169. "Parametrized Sum Individuals for Singular/Plural Reference and Distributive/Collective Predication", Third conference on Semantics and Linguistic theory (SALT III), University of California at Irvine, March 7, 1993.
  170. "Focus and Quantification". University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, January 22, 1993.
  171. "Focus and Presupposition in Dynamic Semantics: The case of only". Invited talk, 4th Symposium on Logic and Language, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, August 5-8.
  172. "A Framework for Focus-Sensitive Quantification", Second conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT II), Ohio State University, Columbus, May 1, 1992.
  173. "Focus, Semantic Partition, and Quantification". Stanford University, April 20, 1992.
  174. "Focus, Semantic Partition, and Quantification". Invited talk, Arizona Linguistics Conference, Tucson, March 28, 1992.
  175. "Focus, Semantic Partition, and Dynamic Interpretation". Invited talk, Eight Amsterdam Colloquium, December 1991.
  176. "A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Focus Constructions", First conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT I), Cornell University, April 19-22, 1991.
  177. "The Semantics of Focus", University of Arizona at Tucson, April 15, 1991.
  178. "Die Semantik von Konstruktionen mit mehrfachem Fokus", Universität Tübingen, March 13, 1991.
  179. "A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Focus Constructions", Conference on Natural Language Processing, University of Texas at Austin, February 15, 1991.
  180. "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Polarity Items", University of Rochester, December 12, 1990.
  181. "A Pragmatic Theory of Polarity Items", University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, November 1, 1990.
  182. "How to get rid of groups, using DRT", Third Conference on Logic and Linguistics, Revfülöp, Hungary, August 25-29, 1990.
  183. "Polarity Phenomena and Alternative Semantics", Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium, December 19, 1989.
  184. "Nominalreferenz, Zeitkonstitution, Aspekt", Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin (Ost), December 7, 1989.
  185. "Komparation ohne Ellipsen", Universität Stuttgart, December 5, 1989.
  186. "Nomininal Reference and Aspectual Classes", Institute for Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, December 1, 1989.
  187. "Boolean and Non-Boolean 'and'". Second Conference on Logic and Linguistics, Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary, September 4-9, 1989.
  188. "Befürchtungen um die Computerlinguistik", Vortrag bei der Veranstaltung "Forschung und Technikfolgenbewertung - Stand und Diskussion an der Universität Tübingen", 7. Juli 1989.
  189. "Platonic Discourse Referents", talk at the Workshop "Referential and Anaphoric Processes in Text Comprehension and Generation", Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, July 3 - 7, 1989.
  190. "Another Recipe to Shake & Bake Semantic Representations", talk at the Workshop "Semantic Issues of Mass Nouns, Plural Nouns, and Events", Universität Tübingen, June 17, 1989.
  191. "The Interaction of Nominal Reference, Temporal Constitution and Aspect: A Lattice-Theoretical Explanation". Talk at the workshop on tense and aspect at the summer school "Natural Language Processing, Logic and Knowledge Representation", University of Groningen, Netherlands, June 8, 1989.
  192. "Induced Measure Functions of Events". Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. March 22, 1989.
  193. "Induced Measure Functions of Events". Talk at the 1988 Annual Meeting, Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, December 27-29, 1988
  194. "Mafunktionen in der Semanik natürlicher Sprache". Vortrag auf der Tagung "Wissensrepräsentation und Semantik natürlicher Sprache", Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, 11.-13. Oktober 1988.
  195. "The Relational Theory of Genericity". Vortrag auf der Tagung "Genericity in Natural Language", Universität Tübingen, August 6-8, 1988.
  196. "Nominalreferenz, Aspektklassen und Aktionsarten". 7. Groninger Grammatikgepräche "Tempus-Aspekt-Modus in den germanischen Sprachen", Groningen, 17.-18. Juni 1988.
  197. "A Treatment of Aspectual Classes in Terms of Event Lattices". Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Rochester, New York, June 2-5, 1988.
  198. "Genericity". University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 12, 1988.
  199. "Eine pragmatische Theorie negativer Polaritätselemente". Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Wuppertal, 2.-5. März 1988.
  200. "Some Linguistic Devices for Event Quantization and Event Measurement". Conference on Events and Natural Language Metaphysics, Center for Cognitive Studies, University of Texas at Austin, February 25-28, 1988.
  201. "Measure Functions in the Semantics of Natural Languages". Workshop for Discourse Representation Theory, Stuttgart. December 11-13, 1987.
  202. "Nominal Reference and Temporal Constitution". Center of the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. July 1987.
  203. "A Typology of Generics". Symposion on Generics, Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Stanford, July 1987.
  204. "Nominal Reference and Temporal Constitution: Towards a Semantics of Quantity". 6th Amsterdam Colloquium, April 1987.
  205. "Textverarbeitung für Philologen", Forschungsstelle für natürlich-sprachliche Systeme, Universität Tübingen, Juli 1985.
  206. "Software-Dokumentation für den Laien". Kolloquium Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftsjournalismus. Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, 28./29. Juli 1985.
  207. "Der genetische und der sprachliche Code". Talk at the Institut für Genetik der Universität zu Köln, 29. November 1983.