Presentations
Invited talks:
[iP23] 12/05/2023: Forthcoming, University of Vienna.
[iP22] 06/14/2023: Forthcoming, University of Bochum.
[iP21] 05/22/2023: 'Bias in Conditionals', University of Amsterdam.
[iP20] 06/24-25/2021: ‘Issues of Chinese Conditionals’. National Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 33), University of Chicago.
[iP19] 03/27/2020: ‘A Register Approach to Negation and Polarity’. Department of English and American Studies (IEAS), University of Frankfurt am Main
[iP18] 03/06-08/2019: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives’. Workshop on Concessives vs. Adversatives: Opposing Opposition at the 41th annual meeting of the German Linguistics Society, University of Bremen
[iP17] 01/09/2019: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives’. German Department, University of Cologne
[iP16] 07/14-15/2018: ‘Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Polarity Sensitivity’ at the Second Workshop on Language and Logic in China (LaLo2), Beijing Normal University
[iP15] 07/13/2018: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives’. Department of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University
[iP14] 02/01/2018: ‘Mandarin shenme... dou’. Topics in semantics and pragmatics. Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
[iP13] 01/30/2018: ‘Epistemic’ effects with indefinites: irgendein/was’. Topics in semantics and pragmatics. Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
[iP12] 01/12/2018: ‘Speaker commitment of different dimensions: conditional connectives and polarity items’. Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop. Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
[iP11] 11/29/2016: ‘Speaker Commitment of Different Dimensions’. University of Stuttgart.
[iP10] 07/2016: ‘The Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives: the wenn-falls contrast in German’. Peking University.
[iP8-9] 12/2015: ‘A Multidimensional Semantic Approach to chadian-mei (差点没)’. Peking University and Nanjing University, China.
[iP7] 06/03–05/2015: ‘A Multidimensional Semantic Approach to chadian-mei (差点没)’, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
[iP6] 11/25/2014: ‘Noncanonical Negation in Mandarin Chinese’, English Department, University of Göttingen.
[iP1-5] 2011–2012: ‘The Truth-conditional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs’ at Zhejiang University and Peking University, China, at the SFB833 in Tübingen, at the ‘Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft’ (ZAS) in Berlin and at the ‘Institut für Englands- & Amerikastudien' (IEAS) in Frankfurt
(Peer reviewed) conference presentations:
[P66-67] 08/31-09/02/2023: Posters at AMLaP 2022, San Sebastián
- ‘An expermental study on social meanings of negative concord in English’, with Stephanie Rotter.
- ‘An experimental study on social meanings of modal concord in English’, with Stephanie Rotter.
[P65] 07/07/2023: Talk 'Social meaning of negative concord in American English', with Stephanie Rotter. Workshop on “Language in Social Interaction” at the University of Wuppertal
[P64] 09/22-29/2022: Poster ‘If or only if you predict will your P3 be modulated: Conditional discourse expectations’, with Mathias Barthel and Rosario Tomasello.
XPrag 2022, Pavia.
[P62-63] 09/07-09/2022: Posters at AMLaP 2022, University of York.
- ‘If or only if you predict will your P3 be modulated: Conditional discourse expectations’, with Mathias Barthel and Rosario Tomasello.
- ‘Prediction and its limits in the processing of negative polarity items’, with Juliane Schwab, Thomas Gruber and Jutta Mueller.
[P61] 08/24-27/2022: Talk ‘Register sensitivity of negative concord in American and British English’ at the SLE Workshop on “A hundred years of negative concord”, University of Bucharest, with Stephanie Rotter.
[P60] 07/08/2022: Talk ‘An experimental study of multiple modals and register effects in American and British English’ at the workshop on “Variation, contact, and modal constructions in English”, University of Paris
[P58-59] 05/18-20/2022: Short talks at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM2), Pennsyvenia
- ‘Testing the Influence of QUDs on Conditional Perfection’, with Britta Grusdt and Michael Franke.
- ‘Processing conditionals in context: Reading time and electrophysiological responses’, with Mathias Barthel and Rosario Tomasello.
[P57] 04/22-24/2022 Short talk ‘An experimental study of multiple modals and register effects in American and British English’, CLS 58, University of Chicago, with Stephanie Rotter
[P56] 03/24-26/2022: 'Testing predictive and integrative neural mechanisms in the processing of negative polarity items', with Juliane Schwab, Caroline Beese, Thomas Gruber, Jutta Mueller. HSP2022, UC Santa Cruz.
[P55] 03/24-26/2022: 'Register sensitivity of negative concord in American and British English', with Stephanie Rotter. HSP2022, UC Santa Cruz.
[P54] 03/24-26/2022: 'An experimental study of multiple modals and their register sensitivity in English', with Stephanie Rotter. HSP2022, UC Santa Cruz.
[P53] 02/23-25/2022: 'Bias and modality in conditionals', with Stephanie Rotter & Anastasia Giannakidou. DGfS2022-Workshop "Commitments in Grammar and Discourse", Tübingen.
[P52] 09/8-10/2021: ‘Attenuating NPIs in indicative vs. counterfactual conditionals’, with Juliane Schwab. Sinn und Bedeutung 26, University of Cologne.
[P51] 09/2-4/2021: ‘A comparative experimental study on counterfactual conditionals: counterfactual thoughts, perspectives, and emotions’, with Stephanie Rotter and Isabell Wartenburger. AMLaP 2021, Paris.
[P50] 09/2-4/2020: ‘Testing linguistic illusions with obligatory relatives in German’, with Juliane Schwab and Andreas Blümel. AMLaP 2021, Paris.
[P49] 09/2-4/2020: ‘Lexical variation in the illusory licensing of negative polarity items in German’, with Juliane Schwab. AMLaP 2021, Paris.
[P48] 07/8-9/2021: Talk ‘Interpreting conditional connectives: bi-conditionality and conditional perfection’, with Mathias Barthel. XPrag.it at the University of Turin.
[P47] 07/8-9/2021: Pre-registration Poster ‘Brain signatures of processing conditionals: semantic vs. pragmatics bi-conditionality’, with Mathias Barthel and Rosario Tomasello. XPrag.it at the University of Turin.
[P46] 05/7-8/2021: Talk ‘The processing of (bi-)conditionality in natural language’, With Mathias Barthel. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2020, at Kaiserslautern.
[P45] 02/24-26/2021: ‘Jiu-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese’, with Yuting Wang. Workshop on "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives", DGfS 43, University of Freiburg.
[P44] 02/24-26/2021: ‘Understating NPIs in indicative vs. counterfactual conditionals’, with Juliane Schwab. Workshop on "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives", DGfS 43, University of Freiburg.
[P43] 02/24-26/2021: ‘An experimental approach to the semantics and pragmatics of conditional connectives’, with Mathias Barthel. Workshop on "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives", DGfS 43, University of Freiburg.
[P42] 10/01-02/2020: ‘On the acquisition of polarity items: 11- to 12-year-olds’ comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs’, with Juliane Schwab and Jutta Mueller. XPrag.de-Workshop on the Processing of Negation and Polarity, Humboldt University of Berlin.
[P41] 10/01-02/2020: ‘The Semantics, Pragmatics and Processing of Conditional Connectives – German ‘wenn’, ‘nur wenn’, and ‘wenn und nur wenn’’, with Mathias Barthel. XPrag.de-Workshop on the Processing of Negation and Polarity, Humboldt University of Berlin.
[P40] 05/29-30/2020: Poster ‘Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives’, with Yuting Wang. The 21th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, City University of Hong Kong.
[P38-39] 03/19-21/2020: Posters at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- ‘Is sonderlich losing its NPI status?’, with Juliane Schwab and Jutta Mueller
- ‘Lexical and contextual cue effects in discourse expectations’, with Juliane Schwab
[P37] 03/09-10/2020: ‘Is sonderlich losing its NPI status?’ at the workshop on Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects (DegPol2020), ZAS Berlin. With Juliane Schwab.
[P55] 03/24-26/2022: 'Register sensitivity of negative concord in American and British English', with Stephanie Rotter. HSP2022, UC Santa Cruz.
[P54] 03/24-26/2022: 'An experimental study of multiple modals and their register sensitivity in English', with Stephanie Rotter. HSP2022, UC Santa Cruz.
[P53] 02/23-25/2022: 'Bias and modality in conditionals', with Stephanie Rotter & Anastasia Giannakidou. DGfS2022-Workshop "Commitments in Grammar and Discourse", Tübingen.
[P52] 09/8-10/2021: ‘Attenuating NPIs in indicative vs. counterfactual conditionals’, with Juliane Schwab. Sinn und Bedeutung 26, University of Cologne.
[P51] 09/2-4/2021: ‘A comparative experimental study on counterfactual conditionals: counterfactual thoughts, perspectives, and emotions’, with Stephanie Rotter and Isabell Wartenburger. AMLaP 2021, Paris.
[P50] 09/2-4/2020: ‘Testing linguistic illusions with obligatory relatives in German’, with Juliane Schwab and Andreas Blümel. AMLaP 2021, Paris.
[P49] 09/2-4/2020: ‘Lexical variation in the illusory licensing of negative polarity items in German’, with Juliane Schwab. AMLaP 2021, Paris.
[P48] 07/8-9/2021: Talk ‘Interpreting conditional connectives: bi-conditionality and conditional perfection’, with Mathias Barthel. XPrag.it at the University of Turin.
[P47] 07/8-9/2021: Pre-registration Poster ‘Brain signatures of processing conditionals: semantic vs. pragmatics bi-conditionality’, with Mathias Barthel and Rosario Tomasello. XPrag.it at the University of Turin.
[P46] 05/7-8/2021: Talk ‘The processing of (bi-)conditionality in natural language’, With Mathias Barthel. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2020, at Kaiserslautern.
[P45] 02/24-26/2021: ‘Jiu-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese’, with Yuting Wang. Workshop on "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives", DGfS 43, University of Freiburg.
[P44] 02/24-26/2021: ‘Understating NPIs in indicative vs. counterfactual conditionals’, with Juliane Schwab. Workshop on "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives", DGfS 43, University of Freiburg.
[P43] 02/24-26/2021: ‘An experimental approach to the semantics and pragmatics of conditional connectives’, with Mathias Barthel. Workshop on "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives", DGfS 43, University of Freiburg.
[P42] 10/01-02/2020: ‘On the acquisition of polarity items: 11- to 12-year-olds’ comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs’, with Juliane Schwab and Jutta Mueller. XPrag.de-Workshop on the Processing of Negation and Polarity, Humboldt University of Berlin.
[P41] 10/01-02/2020: ‘The Semantics, Pragmatics and Processing of Conditional Connectives – German ‘wenn’, ‘nur wenn’, and ‘wenn und nur wenn’’, with Mathias Barthel. XPrag.de-Workshop on the Processing of Negation and Polarity, Humboldt University of Berlin.
[P40] 05/29-30/2020: Poster ‘Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives’, with Yuting Wang. The 21th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, City University of Hong Kong.
[P38-39] 03/19-21/2020: Posters at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- ‘Is sonderlich losing its NPI status?’, with Juliane Schwab and Jutta Mueller
- ‘Lexical and contextual cue effects in discourse expectations’, with Juliane Schwab
[P37] 03/09-10/2020: ‘Is sonderlich losing its NPI status?’ at the workshop on Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects (DegPol2020), ZAS Berlin. With Juliane Schwab.
[P36] 09/27-28/2019: Presentation ‘Multiple Cue Integration in Discourse Expectations: experimenting with German zwar...aber vs. English sure...but’ at the DETEC (Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives) conference, with Juliane Schwab, Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin
[P35] 09/25-26/2019: Presentation ‘Semantic Causality Hidden in Mandarin Counterfactual Conditionals’ at the XPrag.de-Workshop “Contrasting Underspecification and Overspecification of Discourse Relations”, Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin
[P34] 09/19-20/2019: Poster presentation ‘Multiple Sources of Imprecision in Numerical Expressions’ at the 3nd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, with Paola Gega, University of Cagliari.
[P33] 09/19-20/2019: Poster presentation ‘Expectation-based sentence processing in prospective NPI licensing’ at the 3nd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, with Juliane Schwab, University of Cagliari.
[P32] 06/19-21/2019: Poster presentation ‘Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives’, at the 8th Experimental Pragmatics conference, with Yuting Wang. University of Edinburgh
[P31] 06/09-14/2019: Presentation ‘Causal Inference by Mandarin Counterfactuals’, at the Panel “Counterfactuals in Chinese Languages” of the 16th International Pragmatics Conference. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
[P30] 03/29-31/2019: Poster presentation ‘Anti-locality Effect without Verb-final Dependencies’ at the 32ndCUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, with Juliane Schwab and Ming Xiang. University of Colorado Boulder.
[P29] 03/16-17/2019: Poster presentation ‘Degree Pragmatics of Mandarin Conditional Connectives’, at the international workshop on “Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective”, with Yuting Wang. Nanjing University
[P28] 09/26-28/2018: Presentation ‘Numeral yi ‘one’ as domain restrictor in Mandarin Chinese’ at the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-10), with Yenan Sun and Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Milan
[P27] 09/06-08/2018: Poster presentation ‘Anti-locality Effect without Verb-final Dependencies’, with Ming Xiang, AMLaP 2018, Berlin.
[P26] 06/11-12/2018: Poster presentation ‘Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning’ at the annual meeting of XPrag.de, University of Graz.
[P25] 04/26-28/2018: Poster presentation ‘Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning’ at the 54th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago.
[P24] 04/06-07/2018: ‘The wenn/falls contrast in German: with experimental evidence’ at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley
[P23] 10/22–24/2017: ‘Revisiting Obligatory Relatives – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives’, at the 10th conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 10), with Andreas Blümel at the Center for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
[P22] 09/18–20/2017: ‘Deriving the wenn/falls Contrast in German as Scalar Implicature: with experimental evidence’, Annual meeting of XPrag.de, University of Cologne.
[P21] 06/19–20/2017: ‘Electrophysiological signatures of negative and positive polarity processing in German sentence comprehension’, with Peter König and Jutta L. Mueller at the workshop ‘Revisiting Semantic and Pragmatic Theories from a Neurocognitive Perspectives’. University of Bochum.
[P20] 09/18–19/2015: ‘German Conditional Connective falls as an Attitudinal Expression’, at the SPIRIT workshop on Negation, University of Göttingen.
[P19] 06/03–05/2015: ‘A Multidimensional Semantic Approach to chadian-mei (差点没)’, at a GLOW-Workshop on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 2), Univesity of Postdam.
[P18] 05/19–20/2015: ‘Advocating a Three-Dimensional Semantics: positive polarity and presupposition-triggering conventional implicatures’, at the international conference on The Pragmatics of Grammar: Negation and Polarity, University of Caen.
[P17] 03/04–06/2015: ‘Positive Polarity of Conventional Implicatures’, at the workshop on Varieties of Positive Polarity Items, the 37th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistic Society) 2015, University of Leipzig.
[P16] 09/25–27/2014: ‘Interpreting chadian-mei (差点没)’, at the 7th Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis Conference (SinFonIJA 7), University of Graz.
[P15] 06/11–13/2014: Poster ‘Chinese even (甚至连…也都) as even even..also even’, with Christopher Götze at a GLOW-Workshop on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 1), University of Tübingen
[P14] 08/08–12/2011: Poster ‘How Evaluative Adverbs Project and Why’, at the Workshop on Projective Meaning, ESSLLI 2011, University Ljubljana
[P13] 04/22–24/2011: ‘The Undefinedness of Conventional Implicatures’, at Moscow Syntax and Semantics (MOSS) 2, Moscow
[P12] 05/28–29/2010: ‘Die positive Polarität von evaluativen Adverbien’, at the 2th Semantik und Pragmatik im Südwesten (SPSW 2), University of Göttingen
[P11] 02/11–13/2010: ‘Polarity in Context’, with Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Janina Radó and Manfred Sailer at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2010. University of Tübingen
[P10] 12/16–18/2009: ‘Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement’, at Amsterdam Colloquium 17, University of Amsterdam
[P9] 09/28–30/2009: ‘Universal Quantification and NPI Licensing’, at Sinn und Bedeutung 14, University of Vienna
[P8] 06/05–07/2009: ‘Subtrigged Concealed Questions’ at the Frequently Asked Concealed Questions Workshop, University of Göttingen
[P7] 09/30–10/02/2008: ‘Speaker-oriented Adverbs of the German –weise Sort’, at Sinn und Bedeutung 13, University of Stuttgart
[P6] 09/2008: Poster ‘Negation, Conventional Implicature, and Positive Polarity Items’ at the Ecole d'Automne de Linguistique (EALing), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
[P5] 09/10–13/2008: ‘Positive Intensifying Adverbials in German’ at the 27th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar, University of L’Aquila
[P3-4] 07/21–26/2008: 18th International Congress of Linguists, Korea University, Seoul.
‘A Time-relational Approach to Aspect in Mandarin Chinese and English’ at the Workshop on Formal Approaches to the Relation of Tense, Aspect and Modality
‘Negative Implicatum, Positive Implicatum’ at the Workshop on Contrastiveness in Information Structure and/or Scalar Implicatures
[P2] 01/31–02/02/2008: ‘Empirical Perspectives on Positive Polarity Items in German’, with Jan-Philipp Soehn at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2008, University of Tübingen
[P1] 12/15/2007: ‘Distributionsidiosynkrasien in der Logischen Form’, with Frank Richter, Jan-Philipp Soehn and Beate Trawsinski. Project report presented at the SFB-Tag, University of Tübingen