Conference talks (since 2000)

• (with M. Bader & M. Meng) A KP for oblique Cases. [pdf] DGFS-Workshop. Marburg 1.-3. March 2000.





• Symmetry and asymmetry in South Asian languages. [pdf] Workshop on Antisymmetry Theory, Cortona, 15.-17. May 2000.





• Ways of deriving Case, Case Workshop: Diagnosis in Language processing / Conflicting Rules. Potsdam, 1.-3. Dezember 2000





• Topicalization, force and pied-piping, Workshop Elements minimaux de la variation linguistique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales, Paris, 15-16. Dezember 2000





• Non-standard subjects and Case, SFB-Kolloquium Kasusfragen: lexikalisch, semantisch oder strukturell?, SFB 282, Köln, 18 Mai 2001





• Emphatic topics in Bavarian and the organization of the left periphery, Giornata di dialettologia, Universitá di Padova, 8. Juni 2001





• Non-standard subjects and Case. International Symposium on Non-Nominative Subjects. Tokyo, 17.-21. December 2001





• (with Markus Bader) Processing load and syntactic ambiguity resolution. 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Proce-ssing, CUNY, New York. 21-23.3.2002





• Topicalization and force in CP Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University. 20.6.2002





• Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence. Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguists (IATL), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. 24-25.6.2002





• Dative pertinacity. [pdf] Workshop on Pertinacity, Schloss Freudental. 11-14 July 2002





• (with E. Brandner) Klitisiertes "zu" im Bairischen und Alemannischen, 1. Internationaler Dialektologenkongress der IDGG, Marburg, 5.-8.3.2003





• (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Coherent Infinitives in German: An Experimental Perspective, International Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, 28.-31.1.2004





• (with M. Bader) P as Case, 30. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Universitá Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 26.-28.2.2004





• Was beschränkt die Extraktion? Subjekt -- Objekt vs. Topic -- Fokus Symposium Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie. Göteborgs Universitet. 13-15 May 2004





• (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Parsing and Grammar: Evidence from Infinitival Complementation. 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland. 25-27 March 2004





• (with M. Bader and J. Häussler) On Structure and Frequency: Case in PP and VP. 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland. 25-27 March 2004





• (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Clause Position and Clause Union. 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. 3-5 June 2004





• (with E. Brandner) Light Noun Raising in Alemannic and Bavarian Infinitives. 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. 3-5 June 2004





• (with M. Bader) On the syntactic nature of preposition phrases. Workshop on Interface and Interface Conditions in Honor of Professor Anita Steube. Leipzig, 26. June, 2004.
   

• Adjacency in infinitive constructions. SFB-Workshop Germanic Infinitives: Representation, Variation and Processing. University of Konstanz. 30.9. - 2.10. 2004.
   

• Ingredients of the Left Periphery. 1. Meeting of the Scientific Network: The Structure of the Left Periphery in Germanic Languages – CP- and IP-Related Elements in Normal and Impaired Speech. Greifswald, 3 November 2004.
   

• Notes on the status of subjects and expletives in connection with word order. Colloquium Expletive Subjects in Romance and Germanic Languages, University of Konstanz. 11. - 13. November 2004.
   

• On the Shape and Position of Infinitives. Universität Potsdam, 27. January 2005.
   

• That-trace without reference to the subject. 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Katholieke Universiteit van Brabant, Tilburg. 9.-11.-05. 2005. [invited speaker]*
   

• Checking clausal complements in head-final languages. 5th Asia GLOW Conference, New Delhi. Aug. 5 - 8, 2005. *
   

• Deutsch nur  - Italienisch solo. Symposium Das Italienische und das Deutsche: ein typologischer Vergleich. Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 3.- 4. February 2006. *
   

• Subjects and Microcomparative Variation. Trondheim 5-6 August 2006.
  pdf\Trondheim2.pdf; pdf\Trondheim11.pdf
   

• (with E. Brandner), Wie oberflächlich ist die syntaktische Variation zwischen Dialekten? – Doubly-filled COMP revisited. 2. Kongress der IGDD, Wien, 20-23.September 2006.
   

• (with E. Brandner), On Clausal Typing by Wh-Head-Movement. Journées d'etudes « Types des Phrases et périphérie gauche », Paris, 1.-2. December 2006
   

• (with E. Brandner), On wh-head-movement and the Doubly Filled Comp Filter. 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Berkeley, 27-29 April 2007.

• On the nature of the [/that/ trace] effect. University of Geneva, 30 October 2007.
   

• From modal particle to interrogative marker. Journées d'etudes La structure des types de phrases, Paris 16.-17. November 2007.
   

• Complementation in SOV-syntax. Head-Final Languages Workshop, Leipzig 6.-9. December 2007.
   

• Variation in der linken Satzperipherie des Bairischen (und verwandter Dialekte),
  Workshop Neue Tendenzen in der deutschen Dialektologie: Morphologie und Syntax, Università degli Studi di Verona, 13.-14. December 2007.
   

• Associating the German Discourse Particle "denn" with the Left Periphery, Workshop on Discourse Particles, Venice, 4. February 2008.
   

• How does the German particle denn reach the left periphery? Berlin, 2.-4. May 2008.
   

• German denn versus Bavarian -n in questions, Salzburg,15. May 2008.
   

• (with Hans-Georg Obenauer) Discourse Particles, Clause Structure, and Question Types. Particle Workshop, Cambridge 30-31 October 2008.
   

• (with Martin Salzmann) That-trace effects and resumption as the result of Improper Movement DGfS Osnabrück 05.03.2009.
   

• W-Frage, Fragepartikel und W-drop im Bairischen
  11. Bayerisch-Österreichische Dialektologentagung, Passau 22.-25. September 2010.
   

• (with Hans-Georg Obenauer) On the (In-) Dependence of Interpretation from Syntax-Evidence from Special Questions.
  Sentence Types, Sentence Mood, and Illocutionary Forces. International Conference to Honor Manfred Bierwisch Berlin 04.-06.11.2010.
   

• (with Jana Häussler, Markus Bader & Simon Hopp) Connecting to Illocutionary Force: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the German Discourse Particle denn. GLOW, Vienna 28.-30.04.2011.
  

• Doubly-Filled Comp, wh head-movement, and chain uniformity Inaugural Workshop The Representation of Structure in Grammar. Annesso Cartesiano di Villa Salmi, Arezzo. July 1-3 2011.
  

•  Syntaktische und phonologische Eigenschaften von W-Operatoren und W-Bewegung im Bairischen Workshop Syntax des Bairischen. Frankfurt, 29.06.2012.
  

•  Demystifying Bavarian complementizer agreement GIST 6, Ghent, October 17, 2012.
  

• Klitisierung, Reanalyse, und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen. 18.LIPP Symposium. München, 15. November 2012.