April 2005 | "Principles of morphosyntactic change." Lectures at the École Doctorale of the University of Geneva." |
April 2005 | "Morphological and syntactic evidence in language stability and language change." Department of Linguistics, Yale University." |
March 2005 | "The dynamics of language change." Lectures at the Department of Language Sciences at the University of York, UK. |
January 2005 | "The dialectic of competence and performance in the modern cognitive science of language." Department of Linguistics, Harvard University." |
November 2004 | "Language learning and language change." Conference on connectivity in multilingual settings, University of Hamburg. |
October 2004 | "The history of the English infinitive: some implications for the theory of grammar." University of Konstanz workshop on infinitives. |
October 2004 | "Modeling the time course of syntactic change." Keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. |
March 2004 | "Against drift." Keynote speaker at the University of North Carolina annual linguistics symposium. |
January 2004 | "Revisiting do." Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. University of Tübingen, Germany. |
September 2003 | "Lectures on Syntactic Change." Ecole d'Automne de Linguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. |
July 2003 | "If at first you don't succeed: the time course of language acquisition." LSA Workshop on UG Principles and Input Data. Michigan State University. |
March 2003 | "Language learning and language change." Annual meeting of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN), Rio de Janeiro. |
March 2003 | "Imperfect learning and language change." Workshop on Explaining Linguistic Universals: Historical Convergence and Universal Grammar. University of California at Berkeley. |
November 2002 | "Imperfect learning and language change." Workshop on diachronic clues to synchronic syntax. University of Stuttgart, Germany. |
September 2002 | "Variation and change in the historical syntax of English." Henry Sweet lecture, fall meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Manchester, England. |
July 2002 | "Modeling language change: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" Guest lecture of SFB 441, University of Tübingen, Germany. |
May 2001 | "Topics in general and theoretical linguistics: a three lecture series." Beijing University Language and Culture Press, Beijing. |
May 2001 | "The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English and the Middle English Dictionary." Dictionary Society of North American Biennial Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
April 2001 | "The status of the independence assumption in quantitative diachronic syntax." University of York, England. |
February 2001 | "A grammatical and quantitative perspective on the historical syntax of English." University of Helsinki, Finland. |
February 2001 | "Statistical regularities in grammatical change: evidence from diachronic corpora." University of Tübingen, Germany." |
December 2000 | "Recent advances in English historical syntax." Universidade Classica de Lisboa. |
October 2000 | "Grammar and Statistics in Syntactic Change." NWAVE 29, Michigan State University. |
November 1999 | "Statistical fingerprints of grammar in historical texts." University of California at Irvine. |
February 1999 | "Statistical Fingerprints of Dialect Variation and Language Change." Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Science, Michigan State University. |
September 1998 | "Statistical fingerprints of grammar in historical English texts." Workshop on historical corpus construction and use, Institute for Language Studies, University of Campinas, Brazil. |
May 1998 | "Dialect variation in the transition from XV to VX in Early Middle English." Fifth Biennial Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, York, England. (with Ann Taylor) |
May 1998 | "Revisiting do." Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. (with Chung-hye Han) |
November 1997 | "Inversion and equation in copular sentences." ZAS Workshop on (pseudo)clefts, Berlin, Germany. (with Caroline Heycock) |
May 1997 | "Pseudocleft connectivity: implications for the LF interface level." Tübingen Workshop on the Syntax/Semantics Interface. Tübingen, Germany. (with Caroline Heycock) |
April 1997 | "Pseudocleft connectivity." New York University Department of Linguistics. |
April 1997 | "The unity of opposites: the role of grammatical and social factors in the historical syntax of English." International Linguistic Association, New York. |
March 1997 | "V2 in Old and Middle English: implications for comparative syntax and language change." The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics. |
January 1997 | "Old English clause structure and Attract F." Twelfth Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, The Free University Amsterdam. |