| Oct 31, 2024 | I will be defending my dissertation with the title “Understanding meaning-driven variation along the grammaticalisation trajectory: the case of Icelandic búinn” at the faculty of language and literature (Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät) of HU Berlin on November 13th, 2024. My committee consists of Mingya Liu (chair), Artemis Alexiadou (supervisor/reviewer), Uli Sauerland (supervisor/reviewer), Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (reviewer), Stephanie Solt, Berit Gehrke, Richard Waltereit and Olga Buchmüller. If you would like to attend, please let me know. |
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| Oct 15, 2024 | I look forward to presenting results emerging from my dissertation work at the workshop on Expressivity, variation and change at DGfS 2025 in Mainz (March 5–7, 2025). |
| Oct 10, 2023 | I will be giving a presentation along with Uli Sauerland (presenting joint work with Stephanie Solt and Roland Mühlenbernd) at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 12 entitled “Social meaning has multiple sources: form vs. meaning driven variation in language use”. The abstract can be found here. |
| Feb 5, 2023 | On May 4th, I will be giving an invited talk entitled “Discourse structure and the reorganisation of the Icelandic aspectual system” as part of a workshop at the University of Potsdam “Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic”. Thanks to Ulrike Demske and Barthe Bloom for the invitation. |
| Sep 5, 2022 | Next week, I’ll be presenting a poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 27 in Prague. I’ll be discussing the semantics of the Icelandic perfect-like marker búinn and pragmatic competition in the aspectual domain. |