Conferences & Guest lectures (2004 - )

  • (with Mike Hannay) Non-restrictive apposition in English. ESSE/7 Conference, Seminar on FDG. Zaragoza, Spain. 8-12 September 2004.
  • Prepositions in FDG. International Conference on Functional Grammar 11, University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain. 22-25 September 2004.
  • The lexical-grammatical distinction in Functional Discourse Grammar. International Conference on Functional Grammar 12, Universidade Estadual Pauilsta, Campus São José do Rio Preto, Brazil. July 2006.
  • Possessieve constructies in het Engels: the proposal’s supporters vs. the supporters of the proposal. Invited speaker. Workshop Woordvolgorde in de NP, Universiteit van Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. 22 September 2006.
  • Prenominal possessive constructions in English: function and use. Invited speaker. Workshop Possession through Turkish: a cognitive-linguistic perspective on language change and acquisition, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.19-20 October 2006.
  • Verb-preposition constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Workshop on the Representational Level in FDG, University of Amsterdam, Zaandijk, The Netherlands. 7–8 June 2007.
  • (with Wim Honselaar) Lexicon and frames in FDG: A treatment of Dutch bekend zijn ‘to be familiar, well known’, behandelen ‘to treat’ and trouwen ‘to marry’ . Workshop on the Representational Level in FDG, University of Amsterdam, Zaandijk, The Netherlands. 7–8 June 2007.
  • (with Kees Hengeveld) Non-straightforward ascription. International Conference on Functional Grammar 13, University of Westminster, London, UK. 3-6 September 2008.
  • Multiple preposition constructions in FDG.  International Conference on Functional Grammar 13, University of Westminster, London, UK. 3-6 September 2008.
  • Pre- and post-nominal possessors in English, Dutch and German: an FDG account
     Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Institute of English Studies, University of London, London, UK. 15-17 July 2009.
  • English proforms in FDG. FGD-workshop on the Morphosyntactic Level in FDG, University of Oviedo, Spain. 17-18 September 2009.
  • English proforms in Functional Discourse Grammar. Invited speaker. First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations, University of Vigo, Vogo, Spain. 2-3 October 2009.
  • The prenominal possessive in English, German and Dutch: constraints, preferences and interactive principles. Invited speaker. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 27 January 2010.
  • (with Kees Hengeveld). Non-straightforward communication. Invited speaker. University of Aarhus, Aargus, Denmark. May 7, 2010.
  • We teachers, you fools: the use of pronouns in close appositions. International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar 1, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal. 2-4 June 2010.
  • (with Wim Honselaar) The semantic category of Time in FDG: the syntax and semantics of Dutch temporal expressions. International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar 1, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal. 2-4 June 2010.
  • We teachers, you fools: the use of pronouns in close appositions. Invited speaker to the Workshop on binominal syntagms. SLE conference, University of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2-5 September 2010.
  • (with Wim Honselaar) The semantic category of Time in FDG: the syntax and semantics of Dutch temporal expressions. Invited speaker. Workshop on the NP. University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. 26-27 November 2010.
  • The prenominal possessive in English, German and Dutch: an FDG account. Invited speaker. Workshop on genitive variation International Society for the Linguistics of English, Second Triennial Conference, Boston University, Boston, USA. 17-21 June 2011.
  • Variation and Cognition: syntactic alternations in English. Invited speaker. III Seminário de estudos linguísticos da Unesp, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de Saõ José do Rio Preto, Brazil. 10-12 August 2011.
  • The lexical-grammatical distinction in FDG. Invited Speaker. Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de Araraquara, Brazil. 24 Augustus 2011.
  • Context and cognition in Functional Discourse Grammar: what, where and why? FGD-workshop on the interaction between the Grammatical Component and the Contextual Component, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 8-9 September 2011.
  • Werkse, Een schat van en Het punt is (is): tussen lexicon en grammatical. Invited speaker. Symposium “De strijd tussen grammatica en woordenboek”, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 17 February 2012.
  • The X is construction in English: an FDG account.
    2nd International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. 6-8 June 2012.
  • Idiomatic expressions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Fourth International Workshop in Functional Discourse Grammar, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 4-5 September 2013.
  • We teachers, you fools. Pronoun + N(P) constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Invited speaker. Wiener Sprachgesellschaft, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 5 November 2013.
  • The X is construction in English: an FDG account. Invited speaker. ACLC/University of Amsterdam Paper delivered during the presentation of the volume Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar (2013), ed. by Lachlan Mackenzie and Hella Olbertz. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 22 February 2014.
  • The (DET) (ADJ) fact is construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account.
    International Workshop Outside the Clause: form and function of Extra-clausal Constituents, University of Vienna, Austria. 4-5 July 2014.
  • The (DET) (ADJ) fact is construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account.
    International Society for the Linguistics of English Conference (ISLE3), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 14-17 August 2014.
  • English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: a unified account
    Third International Conference in Functional Discourse Grammar (IC-FDG-2014), University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain. 17-20 September 2014.
  • Structured Substance: The case of the Binominal Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar (with Elnora ten Wolde) . Substance and structure in linguistics Worskhop, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,  Denmark, 27-28 February 2015.
  • Pre- en post-nominale bezitsconstructies in het Nederlands (Engels and Duits). Invited speaker.
    Department of Dutch and African Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. 3 March 2015.
  • The (DET) (ADJ) fact is construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account. Invited speaker. Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. 3 March 2015.
  • English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: types and constraints. SLE 2015, Leiden University, The Netherlands. 2-5 September 2015.
  • The distinction between lexical and syntactic derivation in FDG: challenges and implications
    Fifth International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar, University of Cordoba, Spain. 11-12 September 2015.
  • The (DET) (ADJ) fact is (that) construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account. Invited speaker. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. 28 January 2016.
  • Interpersonal adverbial modifiers in FDG: function, form, analysis. Fourth International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar (IC-FDG-2016), University of Vienna. 2 September 2016.
  • Interpersonal modifiers in FDG: the case of frankly. Invited speaker. Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. The Netherlands. 9 December 2016.
  • Modal modifiers in FDG. International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar (IW-FDG-2017). Expressions of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and polarity. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 29-30 June 2017.
  • Syntactic, semantic, and prosodic integration: a Functional Discourse Grammar analysis of frankly and cleverly. Invited Speaker. Workshop One brain - two grammars? Examining dualistic approaches to language and cognition, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany. 1-2 March 2018.
  • Stance adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar. Invited speaker. Workshop “Investigating stance constructions”, ISLE 5, University College London, UK, 17 July 2018.
  • (with Kees Hengeveld and Lachlan Mackenzie). International Postgraduate Course in Functional Discourse Grammar, Salvador, Brazil, 24-25 July 2018.
  • Truth-conditionality and restrictiveness in Functional Discourse Grammar.
    5th International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar, Salvador, Brazil, 26-28 July 2018.
  • Stance adverbs in FDG. Invited Speaker. Workshop “Approaches to Discourse and Grammar”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. 23 November 2018.
  • Premodification in the point-is construction. Workshop The English Noun Phrase: synchronic and diachronic perspectives, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 11-13 July 2019.
  • High-level mismatches in English partitive construction. International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar (IW-FDG-2019): Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 12-13 September 2019.
  • Premodification in the point-is construction.Invited Speaker. Workshop Approaches to Discourse and Grammar II, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. 25 November 2019.
  • (with Riccardo Giomi). Placement at the layer of the Linguistic Expression. Sixth International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG2020 – online), 30 June-2 July 2020.
  • (with Riccardo Giomi). Extra-clausal constituents in Functional Discourse Grammar. Invited Speaker. Workshop Approaches to Discourse and Grammar III (online). 7 December 2020.
  • Semantics in grammatical models: the case of Functional Discourse Grammar. Three-week (6-hour) course for the online platform of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin EAD), 27 January, 3 February, 10 February 2021.
  • (with Riccardo Giomi). Extra-clausal constituents in FDG: Function and Placement. FDG Online Lecture Series. 12 February 2021.
  • Adjective-numeral word order in the English NP: and FDG analysis. International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Modifcation in Functional Discourse Grammar. University of Graz, Austria. 12-14 July 2021 (online).
  • (with Gunther Kaltenböck). Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: from modification to independence. International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar. University of Graz, Austria. 12-14 July 2021 (online)
  • (with Matthias Klumm and Anita Fetzer) Introduction to Workshop: Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA, 54th ANNUAL MEETING, 30 August - 3 September 2021 (online).
  • (with Gunther Kaltenböck) Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: From modification to independence. Invited Speaker. Grupo de Estudos Sociofuncionalistas, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil, 8 October 2021 (online).
  • (with Gunther Kaltenböck) Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: from modification to independence. Invited Speaker. Workshop Approaches to Discourse and Grammar IV, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. 29 November 2021 (online).
  • Idiom creativity in FDG: tendencies and constraints. Invited Speaker. Workshop on theoretical approaches to lexical constraints. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 3 March 2022.
  • Modifier-numeral word order in the English NP: an FDG analysis. Invited Speaker. ACLC lecture series. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 4 March 2022.
  • (with Zlatan Kojadinovic). Actually: function, position. prosody. 7th International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar. University of Amsterdam, Schoorl, The Netherlands, 18 June-! August 2022.

  • Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse Grammar. Invited Speaker. Workshop Reconnecting Form and Meaning, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 17 December 2022 (online).

  • (with Zlatan Kojadinovic). Actually: function, position, prosody. Invited Speaker. Workshop on Discourse grammar, discourse coherence and discourse relations. University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. 23 January 2023 (online).

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