Chronological:
with Marjolein Wietske Talsma
Transitivity in minimalism
January 24, 2024: Scientific symposium on linguistic properties in cognitive neuroscience,
University of Groningen
slides
with Marjolein Wietske Talsma
Rethinking her-: Dutch verbal prefixation and rule ordering
June 15, 2023: TABU-dag (poster), University of Groningen
October 6, 2023: Morphology in the Low Countries, WWU Münster
handout
paper
Theoretical linguistics today
April 22, 2023:
17th T.W.I.S.T. Conference, Leiden University
paper
Agreement and theta theory: a minimalist approach
January 25, 2023:
Workshop Phi and Agree, Leiden University
handout
Revisiting case and theta theory
October 26, 2019:
Workshop in honor of Tim Stowell, University of Greenwich
abstract
Theoretical linguistics and the future of the humanities
August 30, 2019:
Opening academic year Graduate School for the Humanities, University of Groningen
Some thoughts on agreement in Amazonian
September 20, 2018:
Workshop Case and agreement in Panará (and beyond), University of Groningen
handout
Deriving order and structure
June 17, 2018:
Groningen Syntax Workshop, University of Groningen
handout
Tense in infinitives: a non-cartographic approach
May 17, 2018:
Comparative Syntax Meetings, LUCL, Leiden University
handout
De etymologie van de Zuid-Afrikaanse familienaam Coetzee
April 25, 2018:
Orchideeën, University of Groningen
presentation
Linguistics and reality
March 8, 2018:
CLCG Linguistics Lunch, University of Groningen
presentation
On verb clusters without a handout
February 8, 2018:
Not another workshop on Verb Raising, Leiden University
Postsyntactic morphology and the syntax of verb clusters
October 5, 2017:
Workshop on tenselessness, University of Greenwich
handout
Eliminating external merge
February 15, 2017:
Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 43, IUSS Pavia
Workshop Order and direction of grammatical operations
handout
paper
Parasitic participles in VP-focus pseudoclefts
December 3, 2016:
31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Stellenbosch
handout
Periphrastic morphology, verb clusters, and verb movement
May 27, 2016:
CRISSP/KU Leuven, Brussels
handout
Derivational architecture and the syntax of verb clusters
May 4, 2016:
Syntax Lab, University of Cambridge
handout
On successive cyclicity in Dinka
February 6, 2016:
TIN-dag, Utrecht
handout
Periphastic tense and the nature of verb movement
November 30, 2015:
Syntax-Interface Lectures, Utrecht University
handout
De Nederlandse taal: ontstaan en toekomst
November 21, 2015:
Nederlands Genootschap van Tolken en Vertalers, Utrecht
Eliminating external merge
September 26, 2015: SinFonIJA 8 Ljubljana
handout
Restructuring restructuring: explaining long passive phenomena in Dutch
May 29, 2015:
Workshop on verb clusters, Amsterdam
handout
Eliminating external merge
May 5, 2015: University of Cambridge SynLab
handout
Revisiting complementizer agreement
March 31, 2015: MIT
handout
Phaseology
March 23, 2015: Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
handout
Precede-and-command revisited revisited
February 7, 2015: TIN-dag Utrecht
handout
with Charlotte Lindenbergh
Rethinking alignment typology
February 7, 2015: TIN-dag Utrecht
handout
Dialect en standaardtaal in het Nederlandse taalgebied
January 16, 2015:
Kennisnet voor Taal- en Vakopleidingen, Amersfoort
Wet en gewoonte in de taal
October 28, 2014: University of Groningen inaugural address
full text
with Andreas Trotzke
A constructionist approach to idiom formation and interpretation in current minimalism
October 2, 2014:
DGKL 6, University of Erlangen
Describing ergativity
May 20, 2014: University of Konstanz
handout
Ellipsis in layered derivations
December 12, 2013: U4 Workshop
New Approaches to the Syntax/Semantics Interface, Göttingen
handout
Language innateness: debate with Dan Everett
September 12, 2013:
Multilingualism: the key debates, Leeuwarden
video
presentation
with Charlotte Lindenbergh
The presentation of linguistic examples in the 1950s
June 13, 2013:
TABU-dag, Groningen
presentation
Some remarks on the interpretation of idiomatic expressions
March 22, 2013:
Workshop morphosyntactic dependency, Groningen
handout
The Faculty of Language: a debate
Forum discussion with Arie Verhagen
December 15, 2012:
CogLingdays5, Groningen
Locality principles in syntax
December 3, 2012:
Locality and the left periphery, Groningen
no handout
Agreement without Agree
October 17, 2012:
Generative Initiatives in Syntactic Theory 6
workshop on complementizer agreement, Ghent
handout
paper
Consequences of derivation layering
June 25, 2012: Syntax-Interface Meetings, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University
no handout
Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar
March 6, 2012:
Complex sentences, types of embedding, and recursivity, Konstanz
handout
paper
Tough-constructions in minimalism
February 4, 2012: TIN-dag, Utrecht
handout
paper
Appositions and layered derivations
January 20, 2012: (Ap)positive thinking in linguistics, Groningen
handout
Re: Woordvolgorde Omgekeerd
November 25, 2011: 5e Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw, Amsterdam
presentation
Return to Vehicle Change
November 15, 2011: Quirky Ellipsis Workshop, Groningen
handout
On control
February 11, 2011: Wh-inter symposium, Groningen
handout
Recursion as derivation layering
January 5, 2011: ConSOLE 19, Groningen
handout
paper
Verb movement in layered derivations
December 12, 2010:
Verb movement, its nature, triggers and effects, Amsterdam
handout
Finiteness in live soccer commentary
June 21, 2010: Jan Koster Farewell Symposium Groningen
presentation
Head-finality in a head-initial language: linearization as a sign of derivation layering
February 26, 2010:
Annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society,
Theme-group 9: Linearization, Berlin
handout
Recursion in language: a new approach
February 6, 2010: TIN-dag Utrecht
handout
A derivational account of locality effects in gapping
August 27, 2009: MASL Budapest
handout
Embedded verb-second revisited: a layered derivations account
June 12, 2009: TABU-dag, Groningen
April 6, 2010: Workshop on Information Structure and Germanic Syntax, Groningen
presentation
handout
The FOFC asymmetry: a layered derivation perspective
June 1, 2009: Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order, Newcastle
handout
Grammatica op school
May 8, 2009:
Mini-symposium 'Wat moeten wij met de grammatica?', Nijmegen
presentation
paper
Minimalist construction grammar
February 7, 2009: TIN-dag, Utrecht
handout
Derivations, constructions, and the word order of Dutch
December 3, 2008: Wednesday Syntax Seminar, Leiden
handout
with Linda Zwezerijnen
Comparative topology: the fields analysis of sentence structure in the Danish and
Dutch linguistic traditions
June 6, 2008:
TABU-dag, Groningen
slides
Prospects for top-down derivation
June 5, 2008:
Merge: the derivation of structure and order, Groningen
handout
paper
Nog/al and the nature of the Dutch perfect
May 20, 2008:
Spring Syntax Symposium, Groningen
handout
The construction of layered derivations
March 1, 2008:
Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Carson-Newman College,
Jefferson City TN
handout
Layered derivations: a minimalist perspective on constructions
February 26, 2008: Princeton University, Princeton NJ.
handout
with Jordi Fortuny
Deriving the LCA
February 2, 2008: TIN-dag, Utrecht.
handout
Covering diversity: some notes on sampling technique
February 2, 2008: TIN-dag, Utrecht.
slide show
handout
Discussion
December 10, 2007:
Nijmegen Lectures 2007 (Adele Goldberg), Nijmegen.
Gapping without gaps
November 14, 2007:
Midweek Utrecht Syntax Talks, Utrecht.
handout
Verb second als speelbal van de grammaticatheorie
October 26, 2007:
1e Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw, Leiden.
handout
paper [both in Dutch]
Syntactic derivation and sentence amalgamation
October 19, 2007:
Workshop on Parenthesis and sentence amalgamation, Groningen.
Aspects of agrammatic speech: a theoretical view
October 12, 2007:
Workshop Thinking about aphasia between theory and data: an interdisciplinary
approach, Groningen.
with Eleonora Rossi
Impaired dependency marking in Italian agrammatism: the DPI-effect
June 8, 2007: TABU-dag, Groningen.
Dutch past tense infinitives and the nature of finiteness
June 8, 2007: CGSW
22 Stuttgart.
handout
Generalized integrity
May 7, 2007:
Harvard workshop on movement and its relation to the interfaces, Cambridge
(US).
handout
A noncartographic view of (second) position phenomena
April 19, 2007:
V1/V2 workshop Leiden.
handout
Layered derivations
March 9, 2007: ACTL London.
handout
On the tense of infinitives
February 3, 2007: TIN-dag, Utrecht.
handout
paper
On finiteness
January 26, 2007: Department of Linguistics, University of York.
(no handout)
Simplest Merge
January 16, 2007: Seminari del Centre de Lingüística,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
handout
Tense and agreement without functional heads
January 15, 2007: Seminari de lingüística a la Universitat de
Barcelona.
handout
Foundations of Dependency in Universal Grammar
October 20, 2006: Taalkundig Colloquium, University of Groningen.
handout
De status van het prenominale adjectief
September 22, 2006: Workshop Woordvolgorde in de NP, CLCG,
Groningen
handout
Typology and minimalism
April 26, 2006: Syntax circle, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
handout
Structural case and dependency marking: a neo-Jakobsonian view
April 7, 2006: CLS 42, Chicago
handout
paper
Uncharted territory? Towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax
April 2, 2006: CGSW 21, UC Santa Cruz
handout
paper
Baker's Generalization in a derivational theory of binding
March 8, 2006: LUCL Wednesday Syntax Meeting, Leiden
handout
paper
On the 'graft' analysis of interpolations
February 4, 2006: TIN-dag, Utrecht
handout
paper (Dutch)
A minimalist perspective on typology
February 2, 2006: CASTL Colloquium, Tromsø
handout
A typological perspective on minimalism
February 1, 2006: Nano-syntax seminar, Tromsø
handout
The morphosyntax of verb movement revisited
January 30, 2006: Workshop on inversion and verb movement, Tromsø
handout
The coordinate structure constraint: a minimalist perspective
November 4, 2005: Workshop on verb clusters and coordination, Leiden
handout
Minimalist dependency theory: agreement, binding, case
November 2, 2005: Syntax in the autumn mist, Tilburg
No On binding
October 8, 2005: Workshop on Binding Theory and Reflexivity,
Stuttgart
handout
paper
A neo-Jakobsonian approach to case marking
September 14, 2005: PIONIER Workshop on Case and Agreement,
Nijmegen
handout
On headedness and coordination: noun phrase conjunction in head-final
languages
September 2, 2005: LAGB Annual Meeting, Cambridge
handout
Untangling IPP word order restrictions
June 10, 2005: 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Tilburg
handout
Reflexivity and middle constructions in Dutch and English
June 5, 2005: Teun Hoekstra Colloquium, Leiden
handout
Agreement and dependency marking typology
April 15, 2005: Agreement workshop, Leiden
handout
Some notes on coordination in head-final languages
January 29, 2005: TIN-dag, Utrecht
handout
paper
Unary merge
October 28, 2004: Staff Seminar, Tilburg University
handout
Some notes on the origin and distribution of the IPP-effect
September 28, 2004: Verb Clusters Workshop, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam
handout
Asymmetric merge
July 6, 2004: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
handout
The format of dependency relations
Bloomington 2004 Syntax Fest lectures, Indiana University
handout 1 (June 22)
handout 2 (June 24)
handout 3 (June 28)
handout 4a (June 30)
handout 4b (June 30)
handout 5 (July 1)
On verb second as edge alignment
June 6, 2004: CGSW 19, CUNY
handout
paper
Case and agreement as dependent marking
April 14, 2004: PIONIER Colloquium, Nijmegen
Rethinking head vs. dependent marking grammar
February 7, 2004: TIN-dag, Utrecht
handout
On the format of dependency relations
November 10, 2003: Harvard University
handout
Verb second, mood, and interclausal cohesion
November 7, 2003: NELS 34 (poster), Stony Brook
abstract
handout
Something else and the effect of sloppy
identity
October 17, 2003: Syntax and semantics workshop,
Groningen
Agreement as sisterhood
September 19, 2003: CGSW 18, Durham
abstract
paper
A comparative perspective on syntactic change in the
history of English
August 29, 2003: Comparative Diachronic Syntax Conference,
Leiden
abstract
handout
On so-called V2-relatives in Dutch
June 20, 2003: TABU-dag, Groningen
paper
(in Dutch)
A derivational theory of focus
February 1, 2003: TIN-dag, Utrecht
What happened in the history of English
December 16, 2002: University of Geneva
Local agreement
October 23, 2002: Trans Seminar in Syntax and Semantics,
Utrecht
handout
Right dislocation vs. extraposition in Dutch
August 10, 2002: CGSW 17, Reykjavík
abstract
paper