• (mit Katharina Wilmes): Focus Marking via Gestures, Sinn und Bedeutung 15, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, September 2010. [slides]

• (mit Maria Cieschinger, Judith Degen & Manuela Schütze) Are Intermediate Scope Readings Dependent on Embedding Operators?, Linguistic Evidence: Empiricial, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, Universität Tübingen, Februar 2010. [slides]

• (with Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer) Topics as Speech Acts - An Analysis of Conditionals, WCCFL 27, Los Angeles, May 2008. [slides]

• (with Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer) Embedding Topic-Comment Structures Results in Intermediate Scope Readings, NELS 38, Ottawa, October 2007. [slides]

• (with Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer) Intermediate Scope Readings as Embedded Speech Acts, Sinn und Bedeutung XII (12th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik), Oslo, September 2007.

• (with Christian Ebert) Functional Topics, Sinn und Bedeutung XI (11th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik), Barcelona, September 2006. [slides]

• (with Christian Ebert & Hans-Martin Gärtner) German Integrated Verb Second Clauses, Relative Clauses, and Information Structure, ESSLLI 17 Workshop: Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to Strict Compositionality, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Schottland, August 2005. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantification over Events: The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites, Brussels Conference on Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers, Brussels, January 2005. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Time Intervals and Sum Eventualities, Sinn und Bedeutung IX (9th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik), Nijmegen, November 2004. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Tense and Context Variables in Quantification, The 2004 Milan Meeting, June 2004. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) The Influence of Tense and Number Marking on Quantificational Variability Effects, Workshop: Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Leipzig, March 2004.

• (with Christian Ebert) Wide Scope Indefinites as Aboutness Topics, Sinn und Bedeutung VIII (8th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik), Frankfurt, October 2003. [slides]

• (with Christian Ebert) Generalized Quantifiers and in situ Interpretation, ESSLLI 13 Workshop: Choice Functions and Natural Language Semantics, Helsinki, August 2001.

• (with Andreas Haida) The Double Scope of Quantifier Phrases, Sinn & Bedeutung V (5th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik), Amsterdam, December 2000.

• (planned) Experimental Evidence for Exceptional Wide and Intermediate Scope Readings of Indefinites, Workshop The Proper Use of Quantification in Ordinary Language (PUQOL), ESSLLI 2011, Ljubljana, Slowenien, August 2011.

• Gestures in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, Englisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen, Oktober 2010. [slides]

• Topics as Speech Acts -- A Unified Analysis of Biscuit Conditionals and Indicative Conditionals as Topics, DIP-Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, November 2009. [slides]

• "Max meinte, der und der hätte das und das gesagt" -- Maximising Presuppositions with a Weird Determiner in German, Kolloquium Semantik und Synatx, Universität Tübingen, May 2009. [slides]

• Topiks als Sprechakte -- eine topikale Behandlung verschiedener Konditionale ('Topics as speech acts - a unified treatment of different kinds of conditionals '), Workshop Topikalität ('topicality'), University of Stuttgart, February 2009.

• Sprachbegleitende ikonische Gesten als konventionelle Implikaturen ('Speech accompanying iconic gestures and information structure'), RWTH Aachen, November 2008. [slides (German)]

• Information Structure, Workshop "Gesture and Information Structure" of the SFB 673 "Alignment in Communication", University of Bielefeld, April 2008. [slides]

• Eingebettete Topik-Kommentar-Strukturen ('Embedded Topic-Comment Structures'), Linguistisches Forum, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, December 2007. [slides]

• Introducing a Topic and Saying Something About It - The Semantic Effects of (Non)Embedded Topics, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Project B 17 of the SFB 441, December 2007. [slides]

• Embedding Topic-Comment Structures, DIP-Colloquium, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, November 2007. [slides]

• On Intermediate Scope Readings and Topic-Comment Structure Embedding Operators, LUSH-series (Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings), University of Utrecht, November 2007.

• Exceptional Wide Scope is a Scope Phenomenon, Workshop Specificity and Scope, University of Stuttgart, January 2007. [slides]

• Yes! There are! An answer to (Kratzer 1998), Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Osnabrück, Dezember 2006. [slides]

• Semantische Effekte der Topikalität, Kolloquium Pragmatik, University of Bielefeld, July 2006. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantificational Variability Effects with Singular Indefinites and Bare Plurals, Workshop Tübinger Welten, Ereignisse, Situationen und Zeiten, Universität Tübingen, June 2006. [slides]

• Quantificational Topics - Interpretation and Semantic Effects, LingLunch, UCONN, Connecticut, November 2005.

• Quantificational Topics - Interpretation and Semantic Effects, LingLunch, MIT, Boston, November 2005. [slides]

• (with Hans-Martin Gärtner) Relativische Verbzweitsätze und Definitheit, Symposium Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie, Gothenburg, May 2004. [handout]

• Die informationsstrukturellen Grundlagen weiter Skopusphänomene, Logisch-semantisches Kolloquium, University of Frankfurt, December 2003.

• The Information Structural Basis of Wide Scope Phenomena, DIP-Colloquium, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, June 2003.

GUEST TALKS AND NON-REFEREED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP TALKS

• (mit Christian Ebert und Stefan Hinterwimmer), The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers 'bestimmt' and 'gewiss', Workshop Reference and Discourse Structure, Januar 2010, Universität Stuttgart. [slides]

• (mit Carla Umbach) Grading by "gewiss", Specificity from theoretical and empirical points of view, August/September 2010, Universität Stuttgart.

• (with Maria Cieschinger) Hyperdefinita im Deutschen -- Zur Interpretation von DPn mit Artikelkonjunktion, Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, March 2008.

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer & Sophie Repp) Topicality, Workshop "Topikalität" ('Topicality') at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, February 2008, Bamberg. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer & Sophie Repp) The Interplay of Topicality and Specificity in German, Workshop Funny Indefinites -- Specificity Across Languages, July 2007, ZAS, Berlin. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) The Interpretation of Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics, Workshop What's the topic?, Nijmegen, January 2007.

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantification and Topicality, 1st International Conference of the SFB 632: Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical Methods, Universität Potsdam, June 2006. [slides]

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantification over Events: The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, December 2004.

• (with Hans-Martin Gärtner) Relative-like Verb Second Clauses and Definiteness, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, October 2004.

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Die Auswirkungen von Tempus bei adverbieller Quantifikation, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, August 2003.

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) "Ihr seid doch meistens Tiermediziner" - Quantificational Variability and Individual Level Predicates, Student Workshop of the GKs Leipzig and Berlin, Berlin, May 2003.

• Die informationsstrukturellen Grundlagen weiter Skopusphänomene, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, May 2003.

• (with Gerhard Jäger) Specific Indefinites: In situ Interpretation and Partiality, Workshop: The Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poreba, March 2002. [handout]

• Wide Scope-Interpretation und Quantorenphrasen, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, June 2001.

POSTERS AT REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

• (with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Topic Interpretation in Determiner and Adverbial Quantification, NELS 36, Amherst, October 2005.

• (with Christian Ebert) Topic Interpretation and Wide Scope Indefinites, NELS 34, Stony Brook, November 2003.

• (with Andreas Haida) The Double Scope of Quantifier Phrases, NELS 31, Georgetown University, Washington, October 2000.