Conferences & Guest lectures (2004 - )

Papers at international conferences

• Non-restrictive apposition in English (with Mike Hannay, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  ESSE/7 Conference, Zaragoza, 8-12 Sept 2004, Seminar on FDG.

• Prepositions in FDG
  International Conference on Functional Grammar 11, Gijon, 22-25 Sept. 2004.

• The lexical-grammatical distinction in Functional Discourse Grammar.
  International Conference on Functional Grammar 12, São José do Rio Preto, 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, 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, 19-20 October 2006

• Verb-preposition constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar.
  Workshop on the Representational Level in FDG, Zaandijk 7–8 June 2007.

• Lexicon and frames in FDG: A treatment of Dutch bekend zijn ‘to be familiar, well known’, behandelen ‘to treat’ and trouwen ‘to marry’ (with Wim Honselaar).
  Workshop on the Representational Level in FDG, Zaandijk 7–8 June 2007.

• Non-straightforward ascription (with Kees Hengeveld)
  International Conference on Functional Grammar 13, University of Westminster, London, 3-6 September 2008.

• Multiple preposition constructions in FDG.
  International Conference on Functional Grammar 13, University of Westminster, London, 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, 15-17 July 2009.

• English proforms in FDG
  FGD-workshop on the Morphosyntactic Level in FDG, University of Oviedo, Spain, September 17-18, 2009.

• English proforms in Functional Discourse Grammar
  Invited speaker (along with Douglas Biber, William Croft and John Payne)
  First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations, University of Vigo, Spain, 2-3 October 2009.

• 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.

• The semantic category of Time in FDG: the syntax and semantics of Dutch temporal expressions (with Wim Honselaar)
  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, 43rd annual meeting, University of Vilnius, 2-5 September 2010.

• The semantic category of Time in FDG: the syntax and semantics of Dutch temporal expressions (with Wim Honselaar)
  Invited speaker
  Workshop on the NP. University of Aarhus, Denmark, 26-27 November 2010.

• The prenominal possessive in English, German and Dutch: an FDG account
  Invited speaker to the Workshop on genitive variation International Society for the Linguistics of English, Second Triennial Conference, Boston University 17-21 June 2011.

• Variation and Cognition: syntactic alternations in English.
  Invited speaker
  III Seminário de estudos linguísticos da Unesp, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Campus de Saõ José do Rio Preto, Brazil, 10-12 August 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, 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”, Amsterdam, 17 February 2012.

• The X is construction in English: an FDG account.
  2nd International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar, Ghent, Belgium, 6-8 June 2012.

• Idiomatic expressions in Functional Discourse Grammar.
  Fourth International Workshop in Functional Discourse Grammar, University of Vienna, Austria, 4-5 September 2013.

• We teachers, you fools. Pronoun + N(P) constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar
  Invited speaker
  Wiener Sprachgesellschaft, Wien, 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, 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, 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, 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, Denmark, 27-28 February 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, 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.

• Modal modifiers in FDG
  International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar (IW-FDG-2017). “Expressions of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and polarity”. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29-30 June 2017.

• Syntactic, semantic, and prosodic integration: a Functional Discourse Grammar analysis of franklyandcleverly
  One brain - two grammars? Examining dualistic approaches to language and cognition, University of Rostock, Germany, 1-2 March 2018.

• Stance adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar.
  Invited speaker
  Workshop “Investigating stance constructions”, ISLE 5, University College London, 17 July 2018.

• International Postgraduate Course in Functional Discourse Grammar, Salvador, Brazil, 24-25 July 2018 (with Kees Hengeveld and Lachlan Mackenzie).

• 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, 23 November 2018.

• Premodification in the point-is construction.
  Workshop ”The English Noun Phrase: synchronic and diachronic perspectives”, University of Vienna, 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, 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.

• 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.

Guest lectures

• The prenominal possessive in English, German and Dutch: constraints, preferences and interactive principles
  Invited speaker
  University of Vienna, 27 January 2010.

• Non-straightforward communication. (with Kees Hengeveld)
  Invited speaker
  University of Ǻrhus, May 7, 2010.

• The lexical-grammatical distinction in FDG
  Invited speaker
  Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Campus de Araraquara, Brazil, 24 August 2011.

• 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.

• (Interpersonal) adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar: the case of frankly
  Invited speaker
  Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9 December 2016.

• Stance adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar.
  Invited speaker
  Workshop “Approaches to iscourse Grammar”, University of Augsburg, 23 November 2018.

• Extra-clausal constituents in FDG: Function and placement (with Riccardo Giomi)
  FDG Online Lecture Series, 12 Feb 2021.

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