Selected Presentations (2000-present)

1-3 February 2010: “The research project Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization”, XXXIX Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, University of Santiago de Compostela [joint paper with María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Elena Seoane & Carlos Prado- Alonso].

12 December 2008: "Construction after construction: the history of English verbs of manner of motion”. Invited presentation at the symposium Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond, organized by Christian Mair at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

24-30 August 2008: "Diachrony and usage: the English manner verbs of human self-movement" [abstract]. Plenary lecture presented at 15 ICEHL (Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), University of Munich.

30 August-2 September 2006: "Developments in English sentential complements: a processing-based explanation". Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bremen.

21-25 August 2006: 'The replacement of preverbal subject infinitives by gerundives in the history of English: A processing-based explanation". Paper presented at 14 ICEHL (Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), University of Bergamo.

6-8 April 2006: "Gerund clauses are shorter. Or: Dispelling the myths about the semantic differences between subject gerundives and infinitivals". Paper presented at DELS (Directions in English Language Studies), University of Manchester.

10-12 February 2005: "Language change in grammaticalization: Prospects and appraisal". Plenary lecture presented at FITIGRA (From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perspectives from Grammaticalization), University of Leuven.

25-27 November 2004: "Sentential complemention in British and American English: 1700 and beyond". Plenary lecture presented at LMEC2 (Second International Conference on the English Language in the Late Modern Period 1700-1900), University of Vigo.

8-12 September 2004: "Cognitive Grammar, sentential complements, and linguistic reality". Plenary lecture presented at ESSE 7 (Seventh International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English), University of Zaragoza.

23-28 August 2004: "Cognitive motivations for a recursive cycle in grammaticalization". Paper presented at 13 ICEHL (Thirteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), University of Vienna.

13-15 May 2004: "Is Cognitive Grammar a usage-based model? Towards a realistic account of English sentential complements". Plenary lecture presented at the Fourth Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO 4), University of Zaragoza.

20-25 July 2003: "Grammatical blends and impertinent by-sentences". Eighth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (8 ICLC), University of La Rioja.

5-7 June 2003: "'Fare thee well, dame'. Shakespeare’s forms of address and their socio-affective role". Plenary lecture presented at the international conference Gloriana’s Rule: the life and culture of Elizabethan England, University of Porto.

20-27 August 2002: "More on actualization in syntactic change". Twelfth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (12 ICEHL), Glasgow.

10 May 2000: "Developments in complement clauses: 1600-1900". Invited seminar presentation, Colloquium on English Linguistics 2000, Department of English, University of Zurich.