Vorträge auf internationalen Konferenzen

• “The realization of initial ‹h› in British and American English.” First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, Universität Freiburg, Oktober 2008.
  
  
• “Variation and change in word-final consonants in Middle English: Phonological and morphological motivations.” 15^th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Universität München, August 2008.
  
  
• (mit Manfred Krug und Heinrich Ramisch) “English-Romance contact situations in Europe: Malta, Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey.” 13^th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Universität Regensburg, Oktober 2007.
  
  
• “‹H›-initial lexemes in British and American English: What unifies the diversity.” Second International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Universität Toulouse, Juli 2007.
  
  
• “The subjunctive in clauses introduced by on (the) condition: A case study.“ 14^th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Universität Bergamo, August 2006.
  
  
• „Aller Anfang ist leicht: Eine Untersuchung zu Auftaktphänomenen an der Syntax-Phonologie-Schnittstelle.“ 7. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Bremen, März 2006.
  
  
• “The apparent loss and re-emergence of [h] in English.” Studies in the History of the English Language 4, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, September 2005.
  
  
• “Correlations between prosodic prominence and morphological marking.” 5^th International Conference on Middle English, Universität Neapel, August 2005.
  
  
• “Constraints on the attributive use of ‘predicative-only’ adjectives: A reassessment.” First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh, Juni 2005.
  
  
• “To dare to or not to: Is auxiliarization reversible?” From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Universität Leuven, Februar 2005.
  
  
• “A small word of great interest: Variation and change in the indefinite article from early Middle English to Present-Day English.” 13^th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Universität Wien, August 2004.
  
  
• “Phonological universals and their implementation: Dissimilarities in British and American English grammar.” Interna­tionales Symposium Grammatical Differences between British and American English, Universität Paderborn, Juni 2004.
  
  
• “Chaucer’s language and the golden age of Ideal Syllable Structure.” 4^th International Conference on Middle English, Universität Wien, Juli 2002.
  
  
• “A not unlaborious task, concerning moonlit ruins, green and yellow melancholy, and a never-failing source of wonder: The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation in Late Modern English attributive structures.” Late Modern English Conference, University of Edinburgh, August 2001.
  
  
• “The role of rhythm in language processing: Evidence from corpus linguistics.” (Poster) Internationaler Workshop Prosody in Processing, Universität Utrecht, Juli 2001.
  
  
• „Zur Wiederverwertung grammatischen Abfalls: Rhythmische Alternation und ihre Auswirkungen im Früh- und Spätneuenglischen.“ 23. Jahrestagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig, März 2001.
  
  
• “The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation as a determinant of grammatical variation in earlier forms of English.” 11^th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, September 2000.
  
  
• “Chomsky’s worst possible case: Phonological determinants of grammatical variation in English.” Internationales Symposium Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English, Universität Paderborn, Juni 2000.
  
  
• “‘Chang’d to a worser shape thou canst not be’ (Shakespeare, Henry VI): The double comparative worser in 16^th to 17^th century prose as a challenge to linguistic theory.” Internationaler Workshop Theory and Empiricism: Historical and Dialectal Data in the Formation of Linguistic Theory, Ascona, September 1999.
  
  
• „Das Prinzip der Rhythmischen Alternation in der englischen Grammatik: Empirische Fakten und theoretische Implikationen.“ 34. Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Mainz (FASK Germersheim), September 1999.