Presentations (selection)

Upcoming talks

  • "Syntactic elaboration: the case of auxiliation in the communicative distance" (with Bert Cornillie), 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 3 September 2021.
  • "¿Verbo auxiliar, verbo desemantizado? El priming como diagnóstico del grado de gramaticalización" (with Mar Garachana), XXXVII Romanistentag, Augsburg, 4-7 October 2021.

Invited talks

    2021

  • "Between contact and insularity: deontic verbal periphrases in spoken continental and insular Balearic Spanish" (with Andrés Enrique-Arias), Workshop "Sprachliche Dynamiken im Raum: Sprachinseln zwischen Begegnung und Abschottung", Regensburg, 8 July 2021.
  • "Discourse traditions and corpus linguistics", Workshop "Old wine in new bottles? Discourse Traditions in the light of recent approaches to textual analysis and language variation", Würzburg, 25 June 2021.
  • "Interrogativas en español y portugués", Research seminar in Ibero-Romance languages, Stockholm, 9 April 2021.
  • "Oralidad concepcional y tradiciones discursivas en un corpus de textos teatrales franceses", Workshop "Las Tradiciones Discursivas en tiempos de lingüística cuantitativa: ¿corrección epistemológica o deconstrucción metodológica?", Leuven, 5 February 2021.

    • 2020

  • "Experimenting on the past: Why don't grammaticalization pathways always recur" (with Eitan Grossman), Center for the Study of Language and Society, Bern, 28 October 2020.
  • "Variation, change and contact in Ibero-Romance wh-interrogatives", Center for Language Science at Penn State University (USA), 2 October 2020.
  • "Experimenting on the past: Why don't grammaticalization pathways always recur" (with Eitan Grossman), Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Septima Decima (Salos, Lithuania), 28 July 2020.
  • "La complementación asidéntica entre el siglo XV y XVIII: variación socioestilística" (with Giulia Mazzola and Bert Cornillie), Studientag "Spanische Syntax"", Düsseldorf, 4 June 2020.
  • "Entrenchment and discourse traditions. Some examples from Spanish", Research colloquium by the GLiMS research group, Gent, 1 April 2020. [cancelled due to the Corona crisis]
  • "Why do grammaticalization pathways recur? An experimental approach" (with Eitan Grossman), Workshop "Beyond Time", Brussels, 5-7 February 2020.

    • 2019

  • "¿Qué vas a saber vos de talento? Spanish future-inflected wh-interrogatives from an interactional perspective" (with María Sol Sansiñena Pascual), Workshop "Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives in Romance and elsewhere", Freiburg, 16 July 2019.
  • "La omisión de que (1500-1800): variación estilística y morfosintáctica" (with Gulia Mazzola & Bert Cornillie), Workshop "La oración compleja y las tradiciones discursivas (latinizantes y otras)", Leuven, 15 June 2019.
  • "An interactional account of the use of clefted wh-interrogatives in Peninsular and Caribbean Spanish", Workshop "Prototypes and paradoxes in the study of Information Structure: Theoretical, corpus-based and experimental research", Freiburg, 16 February 2019.

    • 2018

  • "Apparent and actual change in Brazilian Portuguese wh-interrogatives" (poster), Workshop "Usage-based approaches to Language", Freiburg, 5 - 6 October 2018.
  • "Echoic affirmative responses in Brazilian Portuguese" (with Scott Schwenter), Workshop "The multifaceted structures of Portuguese: Bridging the gap between linguistic theories and foreign language teaching", Mainz, 8 June 2018.

    • 2017

  • "The expression of subject pronouns in Spanish and Portuguese wh-interrogatives", ICHL 23, Panel "Spanish Socio-historical Linguistics: Isolation and Contact", San Antonio, TX, 31 July 2017.
  • "Diskursfunktionen von wh-Fragen im Spanischen: ein korpusbasierter Ansatz", Research colloquium of the Department of Romance Philology, Freiburg, 13 July 2017.
  • "Zur Pragmatik von in-situ-wh im Spanischen und Portugiesischen", Research colloquium of the Department of Romance Philology, Munich, 28 June 2017.
  • "La pragmática de las interrogativas parciales en español", Research colloquium of the Department of Portuguese Linguistics, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, 14 June 2017.
  • "Are diffusion processes always s-shaped?" (with Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta), FunC research group, Leuven, 8 May 2017.

    • 2016

  • "The history of the verbal periphrases deber and deber + de + infinitive in Spanish: variation and linguistic norms", Research colloquium of the Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies, Columbus, OH, 28 October 2016.
  • "The road to auxiliariness revisited: the grammaticalization of finish-anteriors in Spanish" (with Eitan Grossman), FunC Lectures, Leuven, 14 October 2016.
  • "Zur Pragmatik von spanischen in-situ-wh-Fragen", Linguistisches Kolloquium des Romanischen Seminars der Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin, 6 July 2016.
  • "Frequenz- und Persistenzeffekte in der -ra/-se-Alternation im spanischen Imperfecto de Subjuntivo", Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln, Köln, 3 May 2016.

    • 2015

  • "El desarrollo de la posesión no-predicativa en el español medieval", Course "Historia del español", Gent, 3 December 2015.
  • "De la deuda a la obligación y a la posibilidad. Gramática y diacronía de deber (de) + infinitivo", Workshop "La gramática en la diacronía", Barcelona, 15 September 2015.
  • "La otra cara de la difusión: los procesos de obsolescencia en el cambio lingüístico", Workshop "Jornada Difusión", Universität Ca' Foscari Venedig, 30 April 2015.
  • "Persistence and entrenchment in language change: the Spanish past subjunctive", Workshop "Measuring frequency and recency in synchronic and diachronic corpus data" (with Scott Schwenter), University of Freiburg, 18 February 2015.

    2014

  • "The role of Common Ground in language change: Romance que-questions", colloquium series of the Language, Logics, and Cognition Center of the University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 25 November 2014.
  • "Common Ground management in Ibero-Romance wh-questions", Workshop "Common Ground and discourse modeling" (with Daniel Jacob), Düsseldorf, 18-19 September 2014.
  • "Reflexiv- und Dativkonstruktionen als Katalysatoren der Entwicklung der spanischen Hilfsverbselektion", Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln, Köln, 2 July 2014.
  • "Acerca de la interacción de factores estructurales y contextuales en el cambio lingüístico: la posesión en español antiguo" (with Andrés Enrique-Arias), Workshop "La posesión en español: sincronía y diacronía", 23 May 2014.

    2012

  • "Gradienz, Gradualität, und Konservierung in der Geschichte der spanischen Hilfsverbselektion", Linguistisches Kolloquium des Romanischen Seminars der Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin, 6 December 2012.
  • “Diffusion und Konservierung im Sprachwandel. Das Beispiel der spanischen Hilfsverbselektion”, Ringvorlesung “Frequenzeffekte”, Freiburg, 12 November 2012.

    • 2011

  • "Persistence and analogy in the history of auxiliary selection in Spanish", Workshop "System, Usage, and Society", Freiburg, 12 November 2011.
  • "Gemischte Regressionsmodelle in der diachronen Linguistik", Course "Quantitative Ansätze in Sprach- und Dialektkontakt", Freiburg, 20 July 2011.
  • "Gebrauchsbasierte Grammatikmodelle", Course "Theorien und Modelle der Grammatik", Freiburg, 19 July 2011.
  • "Frecuencia y semántica como regentes de la selección de auxiliares: el caso de tornar y volver en el siglo XVI", Seminario de lingüística cognitiva (Universidad de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Barcelona, 18 March 2011.
  • "Strukturiertes Promovieren in der Sprachwissenschaft: Das Graduiertenkolleg 1624/1 'Frequenzeffekte'", with Karin Madlener and Stefan Pfänder, IGA-DocDay, Freiburg, 28 January 2011.

Refereed talks

2021

  • "Syntactic elaboration: the case of auxiliation in the communicative distance" (with Bert Cornillie), 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPra), Winterthur, 29 June 2021.
  • "Why don't grammaticalization pathways recur?" (with Eitan Grossman), 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 1 September 2021.

2020

  • "The influence of sentence type on the interpretation of Spanish future constructions" (with María Sol Sansiñena), 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 31 August 2020.
  • "The discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Mexican and Peninsular Spanish" (with Pekka Posio), 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 27 August 2020.
  • "Socio-stylistic aspects of diachronic variation: the case of Spanish asyndetic complementation between the 15th and the 18th century" (with Giulia Mazzola and Bert Cornillie), 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 27 August 2020.

2019

  • "O PPC no português brasileiro dos séculos XIX–XXI: uma aproximação quantitativa à mudança semântica" (with Martin Becker), V Congreso Internacional de Corpus Diacrónicos en Lenguas Iberorrománicas, Brussels, 12-14 December 2019.
  • "Corpus históricos y exploración dialectal: distribución y evolución de CANTARA y HABÍA CANTADO en la Edad Media" (with Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta), V Congreso Internacional de Corpus Diacrónicos en Lenguas Iberorrománicas, Brussels, 12-14 December 2019.
  • "La omisión de 'que' entre el siglo XV y el siglo XVIII: variación diatópica y estilística" (with Giulia Mazzola & Bert Cornillie), V Congreso Internacional de Corpus Diacrónicos en Lenguas Iberorrománicas, Brussels, 12-14 December 2019.
  • "The role of co-referentiality in Spanish que-deletion" (with Giulia Mazzola & Bert Cornillie), 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Brussels, 21-24 August 2019.
  • "The Spanish future subjunctive between obsolescence and specialization" (with Mary C. Lavissiere), International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24, Canberra (Australia), 4 July 2019.
  • "Variación diatópica en la evolución del pluscuamperfecto español" (with Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta), XIII Deutscher Hispanistentag, Sektion "Zwischen Zeit und Raum – Diatopische Variation und Morphosyntax in der Geschichte der spanischen Sprache", Berlin, 28 March 2019.

2018

  • "Using a parallel corpus of medieval biblical translations to control for structural and stylistic factors in morphosyntactic variation. The evolution of the Old Spanish article + possessive construction" (with Andrés Enrique-Arias), International congress "Biblias hispánicas: traducción vernácula en la Edad Media y Renacimiento", Palma de Mallorca, 23 November 2018.
  • "Cause and correlation in language change" (with Freek Van de Velde), 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn, 30 August 2018.
  • "Insubordination in Spanish wh-interrogatives" (with María Sol Sansiñena Pascual), 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn, 29 August 2018.
  • "La elisión de la conjunción completiva que en V1 V2 entre 1400 y 1800" (with Bert Cornillie), XI Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, Lima, 7 August 2018.
  • "An interactional account of Spanish insubordinated wh-interrogatives" (with María Sol Sansiñena Pascual), Linguists' Day of the LSB 2018, Liège, 25 May 2018.
  • "Variation and change in Portuguese partial interrogatives", Workshop "Information Structure and Language Change", Caen, 4 April 2018.
  • "Using a parallel corpus of medieval biblical translations to control for structural and stylistic factors in morphosyntactic variation" (with Andrés Enrique-Arias), Workshop "Parallel text analysis in diachronic research", Marburg, 22 February 2018.
  • "Echoic affirmative responses in Brazilian Portuguese" (with Scott Schwenter), Workshop "Patterns of Repetition in Language Use", Leipzig, 15 January 2018.

2017

  • "La pragmática de las interrogativas parciales en español", Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Hispánica. Homenaje a Nicole Delbecque, Leuven, 21 September 2017.
  • "The road to auxiliariness: the view from speaker-listener interaction" (with Eitan Grossman), ICHL 23, San Antonio, TX, 4 August 2017.
  • "The grammaticalization of FINISH anteriors in Spanish and beyond" (with Eitan Grossman), UBLJLM17, Jerusalem, 3 - 5 July 2017.
  • "Perifrasticidad y construccionalización: la diacronía de lograr/conseguir + infinitivo" (with Mar Garachana), XLVI Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística (SEL), Madrid, 24–27 January 2017.

2016

  • "The conserving effect of morphosyntactic persistence in language change" (with Scott Schwenter), NWAV 45, Vancouver, November 2016.
  • "Perifrasticidad y construccionalización: la diacronía de lograr/conseguir + infinitivo" (with Mar Garachana), VIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Hispánica, Leipzig, 28 September 2016.
  • "Priming and obsolescence in language change: the Spanish past subjunctive" (with Scott Schwenter), New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 2, Ghent, 20 May 2016.
  • "Priming and obsolescence in language change: the Spanish past subjunctive" (with Scott Schwenter), LSA 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 9 January 2016. (Poster)

2015

  • "La expresión de la modalidad en español a través de las perífrasis verbales" (with Mar Garachana, Rosa Espinosa, Axel Hernández, Andrzej Zielinski, Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta), X Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Lengua Española, Zaragoza, 9 September 2015.
  • "Presuppositions and language change: the grammaticalization of 'finish' anteriors in Spanish and beyond" (with Eitan Grossman), 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden, 2 September 2015.
  • "On the interaction of structural and contextual factors in language change: Mapping variation in the expression of possession in medieval Spanish" (with Andrés Enrique-Arias), 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 28 July 2015.
  • "Frecuencia de uso y refuncionalización", 20. Deutscher Hispanistentag, Heidelberg, 19 March 2015.

2014

  • "The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznán, 11 – 14 September 2014.
  • "Los efectos de frecuencia y las tradiciones textuales en el cambio lingüístico", Third International Conference on Ibero-Romance Historical Corpora, Zürich, 21 June 2014.

2013

  • "Quantitative Analysen und Diskurstraditionen", XXXIII. Romanistentag, Würzburg, 23 September 2013.
  • "Towards an explicit model of Common Ground: Implications for information structure" (with Daniel Jacob), Workshop “Discourse Coherence, Information Structure, and Implicatures“ at the European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2013), Düsseldorf, 7 August 2013.
  • "The expression of possession in Medieval Spanish, or how a parallel corpus can bring new insights into the study of complex variable phenomena" (with Andrés Enrique-Arias), International Conference on Historical Linguistics 21, Oslo, 6 August 2013.

2012

  • "Aver + PP y ser + PP en el español antiguo. Diferencias funcionales", IX Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Lengua Española, Cádiz, 13 September 2012.
  • "How frequency generates frequency: conserving effects in the history of Spanish auxiliary selection", Workshop "Auxiliary selection: gradience and gradualness", Freiburg, 22 June 2012.
  • "A Usage-based Account of Linguistic Disappearances: The Life Span of Spanish and English BE + PP", Workshop "Disappearances and Failures in Language Change" (ICAME 33), 30 May 2012.

2011

  • "Split compound tense auxiliation in Medieval and Classical Spanish: replacement or disappearance?", Workshop "Disparitions et changements linguistiques", Dijon, 18 June 2011.
  • "Frecuencia y selección de auxiliares en el español medieval y renacentista", Simposi Internacional de Corpus Diacrònics en Llengües Iberoromàniques, Barcelona, 11 February 2011.

2010

  • "The history of auxiliary selection in Spanish. Factoring in constructional semantics and frequency", Workshop "Variation and Change in Argument Realization", Naples/Capri, 29 May 2010.

2009

  • "Spanische „el“ + Infinitiv-Konstruktionen: Ereignisse oder Tatsachen?", XXXI. Deutscher Romanistentag, Sektion 1.7: Aspektualität – Transitivität – Referenzialität: Die romanischen Sprachen im Vergleich, Bonn, 30. September 2009.