Selected presentations

Invited Talks

2020

  • Alternatives and attention in language and reasoning -- The case of modals, joint work with L. Picat, W. Chung and S. Mascarenhas, Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Potsdam
  • New data on presuppositional competition -- a new hope for Maximize Presupposition?, joint work with F. Schwarz, Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Presuppositions, workshop of project B2, SFB 883, University of Tübingen

2019

  • Processing Antiuniqueness, Semantics Circle, Lyon, CNRS

2018

  • Exhaustivity in questions and German question quantifying particles so and alles, Mini-Workshop Semantics, University of Vienna

2017

  • The interpretation of number in which-questions, Common Ground, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • Processing Antipresuppositions, Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions, University of Genoa

2016

  • Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures, University of Potsdam

2015

  • Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures, University of Graz
  • Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures, University of Göttingen

Refereed Conference Presentation

2020

  • Poster presentation, "New data on the competition between definites and indefinites", with F. Schwarz, ELM 2020, University of Pennsylvania
  • Poster presentation, "New data on the nature of the competition between definites and indefinites", with F. Schwarz, CUNY 2020, University of Massachusetts

2019

  • Oral presentation "(In)definites, (Anti)uniqueness and uniqueness expectations", XPRAG 2019, Edinburgh
  • Oral presentation "(In)definites, (Anti)uniqueness and uniqueness expectations", CogSci 2019, Montreal

2018

  • Poster presentation, "Japanese particles wa and ga as scope markers of EXH", WAFL 14 at MIT

2017

  • Poster presentation, "Processing Antipresuppositions", XPRAG 2017 Cologne
  • Poster presentation, "Evidenve for global pronoun resolution", with Saskia Brockmann, XPRAG 2017 Cologne
  • Oral presentation, "Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)", Workshop on Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding, DGfS meeting Saarbrücken
  • Poster presentation, "Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)", GLOW in Asia, University of Singapore

2016

  • Poster presentation, "Additives as a window into local exhaustivity implicatures", SUB 21, University of Edinburgh

2015

  • Oral presentation, "Experimental evidence for the difference between soft and hard triggers", with Sonja Tiemann, XPRAG, University of Chicago
  • Poster presentation, "Domain Restriction Presupposed", XPRAG, University of Chicago
  • Oral presentation, "Obligatory Triggers under Negation", with Sonja Tiemann, SUB 20, University of Tübingen

2014

  • Oral presentation, "Pronouns Without Referents? A Linguistic and Literary Perspective", with Saskia Ottschofski, Conference Literary Semantics: Past, Present, Future?, University of Kent

2013

  • Poster presentation, "Exhaustive Interpretation and the Presupposition of "too"", SUB 18, University of the Basque Country

  • Oral presentation, "Obligatory Presuppositions and Exhaustive Interpretation", International Conference of Linguistics, Geneva

Workshop Talks

2014

  • Oral presentation, "The Role of Fictionality in Reinterpretation Processes", Summer school From Sentence to Text and back again, University of Tübingen

2011

  • Oral presentation, "’To Dwell in Possibility’ – Different Methods for Identifying Referents in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry", with Carmen Dörger, Workshop Linguistics meets Literature: Reflections on Methodology, University of Tübingen