Vorträge auf internationalen Konferenzen und Gastvorträge

•  "The Treatment of Antilexicalization in Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary". [15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15); Workshop "Late Modern-English dialect lexicology: Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, The Survey of English Dialects and beyond"; Leitung: Prof. Dr. Manfred Markus; München, 24.08.-30.08.2008]
  
  
• "It's raining cats and dogs: The Study of English Idioms and Fixed Expressions". [DAAD Stipendiatentreffen Bamberg, 29.03.2008]
  
  
• "Antilexicalization Phenomena and Language Change". [Lecture to the staff (Antrittsvorlesung) am Institut für Englische Philologie, Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznań, Polen, 07.12.2007]

• "How the Sirloin Was Knighted, Or: The Role of Listening in 'Folk Etymology'". [28th Annual Convention of The International Listening Association; Frank­furt/Main, 18.07.-22.07.2007]


• "Linguistic Education in England AD 1000: Manuscript Evidence on Tradition and Innovation in the Teaching of the Language Arts"
  [The Classics in the Classroom; University of Sydney, 27-29 July 2006]


• (mit Michael Schümann)
  "Thou/thee -- ye/you in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Collocational-Phraseological versus Pragmatic Explanations for Pronoun Shifts"
  [Fourth Medieval English Studies Symposium; Poznań, 27.-28.11.2005]


• "Dueling with Words in Old English Heroic Style"
  [Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric; Los Angeles, 13.07.-16.07.2005]


• "Phraseology in English Language Study before 1800"
  [EUROPHRAS: Europäische Gesellschaft für Phraseologie; Basel, 26.08.-29.08.2004]


• "Historical English Phraseology: Aspects of the Development of Phraseological Units in the History of English"
  [13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 13); Wien, 23.08.-28.08.2004]


• "Beowulf und Aphthonius? Zur Rolle der Progymnasmata im angelsächsischen England"
  [PONTES III: Innsbrucker Tagung zur Rezeption der klassischen Antike - "Die antike Rhetorik in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte"; Innsbruck, 25.9.-27.9.2003]


• "Innovation, Devaluation and Convention: The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida in Chaucer and other Authors up to Shakespeare"
  [Gastvortrag am English Department der Universität Ljubljana, Slowenien, 28.05.2003]


• "Synchronic and Diachronic Dimensions of Popular Etymology"
  [Gastvortrag am English Department der Universität Ljubljana, Slowenien, 27.05.2003]


• "'Phrases, which Use has consecrated': Progress towards the Lemmatization of English Headphrases in General Lexicography before the Eighteenth Century"
  [Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas;
  Munich, 01.09.-05.09.2001; Abstract published in The Henry Sweet
  Society Bulletin 37 (2001): 55-56]


• "George Campbell on Idioms"
  [Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas;
  Edinburgh, 20.09.-23.09.2000; Abstract published in The Henry Sweet
  Society Bulletin 35 (2000): 48]


• "English Phraseology in 18th-century Works on Rhetoric and Grammar"
  [Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric;
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12.07.-17.07.1999]


• "Aspekte der historischen englischen Phraseologie"
  [Gastvortrag am Institut für Englische Philologie,
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 10.02.1999]


• "Instruction in Literary Composition in Anglo-Saxon England"
  [Gastvortrag an der School of English der Adam-Mickiewicz Universität Poznań, 23.10.1998]


• "The Rhetorical Aspect of Grammar Teaching in Anglo-Saxon England (700-1100 AD)"
  [Eleventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric:
  The Greco-Roman Rhetorical Tradition. Alterations, Adaptations, Alternatives;
  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Kanada, 21.07.-26.07.1997]