Berit Gehrke

presentations

     

2014

Passive psych predicates, with Cristina Marco
to be presented at SinFonIJA 7, September 25-27, 2014

The different degrees of well, with Elena Castroviejo
invited talk presented at Jean Nicod, Paris, July 2, 2014

Manner-in-disguise vs. degree well, with Elena Castroviejo
presented at Olinco 2014, Olomouc, June 5-7, 2014

Distributional modification: The case of frequency adjectives, with Louise McNally
- invited talk presented at the Labex EFL meeting Quantification, scalarity, plurality, Paris Diderot, February 27, 2014
- presented at the 15th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 21-24, 2014

Frequency distribution over eventualities entailed by frequency distribution over their participants, with Louise McNally
presented at the (Co-)Distributivity Workshop, Paris 8, February 14, 2014

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2013

Event kind formation within the VP: Comparing Russian factual imperfectives and German adjectival passives, with Olav Mueller-Reichau
presented at the 10th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Leipzig, December 05-07, 2013

Event individuation by objects: Evidence from frequency adjectives, with Louise McNally
- presented at the Workshop on Aspect at the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Gudauri, September 23-27, 2013
- presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 18, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, September 11-13, 2013

Different ways to be passive
invited talk presented at the 10th Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, CSIC Madrid, July 11-12, 2013

Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives: Corpus evidence from Spanish (handout), with Cristina Marco
presented at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6, St. Petersburg State University, June 10-14, 2013

In the absence of P, with Marika Lekakou
invited talk presented at the Ultimate Weak Referentiality Workshop, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, March 25, 2013

 

2012

How to cause a passive state: The role of by-phrases in adjectival passives
invited talk presented at Paris 8, December 10, 2012

Frequency adjectives as distributional modifiers (handout), with Louise McNally
invited talk presented at the CLT seminars, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, November 23, 2012

Preposition drop in Greek: A case for pseudo-incorporation (handout), with Marika Lekakou
presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 17, ENS Paris, September 08-10, 2012

When P and D go missing, with Marika Lekakou
presented at the workshop Weak Referentiality and Definitude, Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Florianópolis, August 21-22, 2012

In the absence of P, with Marika Lekakou
presented at the workshop Prefix Verbs: The Impact of Preposition-like Elements on the Syntax and Semantics of Verbs, University of Stuttgart, July 13-14, 2012

Adjectival participles revisited (handout), with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer
presented at the Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles (WAASAP), University of Greenwich, June 22-23, 2012

The role of by-phrases in stative passives (handout), with Cristina Marco
presented at WAASAP, University of Greenwich, June 22-23, 2012

How to miss your P (handout), with Marika Lekakou
presented at the 33rd Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Thessaloniki, April 26-27, 2012

How to cause a passive state
invited talk presented at the University of Brno, April 2012

How to cause a passive state (handout)
invited talk presented at the University of Stuttgart, February 14, 2012

A Logistic Regression Model for adjectival modification vs. modification by prepositional phrases,
with Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, and Louise McNally
poster presented at Linguistic Evidence 2012, University of Tübingen, February 09-11, 2012

 

2011

Adjectives as saturators vs. modifiers: Statistical evidence (poster), with Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, and Louise McNally
poster presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium, December 19-21, 2011

Event-related modification with adjectival passives
presented at the Workshop on Modification (with & without modifiers), CCHS-CSIC (Madrid), December 15-16, 2011

Towards a uniform semantics for frequency adjectives (based on joint work with Louise McNally)
invited talk presented in Düsseldorf, June 22, 2011

Event-modification of German adjectival passives (handout)
invited talk presented at Paris 8, June 20, 2011

Semantic factors in the choice between ethnic adjectives and PP counterparts: Qualitative evidence (slides), with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally
presented (by Gemma Boleda) at QITL-4, Berlin, March 28-31, 2011

Adjectival passives and event kinds (handout)
invited talk presented at Linguistics seminar series, University College London, March 02, 2011

 

2010

Passive states
presented at OnLI II, University of Ulster, December 02-04, 2010

Stative passives and event kinds
- presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 15, Saarbrücken, September 09-11, 2010 (handout)
- presented at the workshop Dispositions, Abilities and States, ENS Paris, June 24-25, 2010 (handout)
- presented as a lunch bag talk at McGill University, April 06, 2010

Ereignisartenreferenz im Zustandspassiv (handout)
invited talk presented at the workshop Zugänglichkeit impliziter Ereignisse, University of Tübingen, July 20, 2010

An event structure approach to passives and its implications for acquisition (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at the conference Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces: Theoretic Modelling and Psycholinguistic Validation, University of Vienna, June 25-27, 2010

Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives (handout), with Boban Arsenijević, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally
presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 08-10, 2010

Unifying the semantics for "thematic" and "classificatory" uses of ethnic adjectives (handout), with Boban Arsenijević, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally
presented at the Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, Nancy, March 25-26, 2010

Aspektuelle Verbalaffixe im Russischen und Tschechischen (handout)
invited talk presented at the University of Tübingen, February 17, 2010

 

2009

Nominalizations and nationality expressions: A corpus analysis (slides), with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally
presented (by Gemma Boleda) at the 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool, July 21-23, 2009

Word order and case alternations with PPs as reflexes of complex predicate formation (handout)
- invited talk presented at the CLT seminars, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 12, 2009
- presented at the Workshop on Spatial Expressions, CASTL Tromsø, May 14-15, 2009

The licensing of paths (abstract), with Veronika Hegedűs
presented at the Workshop on Spatial Expressions, CASTL Tromsø, May 14-15, 2009

Ps in Motion
invited talk presented at the XXIV Encuentro de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, May 07-09, 2009

Frequency adjectives and an ontological solution to a compositional problem (handout, improved version of the SALT paper), with Louise McNally
presented at the 32nd GLOW semantics workshop, Modes of Composition, Université de Nantes, April 15, 2009

Frequency adjectives and assertions about event types (handout), with Louise McNally
presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 19, The Ohio State University, April 3-5, 2009

Event structure and the acquisition of passives (handout), with Nino Grillo
- presented at the 7th GLOW in Asia, Hyderabad, February 25-27, 2009
- invited talk presented at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, March 3, 2009 (slides)

 

2008

How to Become Passive (handout), with Nino Grillo
- invited talk presented at the University of Stuttgart, December 18, 2008
- invited talk presented at the GLiF Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, November 12, 2008

Accusative Case in PPs (handout), with Boban Arsenijević
presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 26-27, 2008

 

2007

Ps in Motion: On the semantics and syntax of P elements and motion events (handout), invited talk presented at the Semantics Colloquium in Nijmegen, June 5, 2007

Putting Path in Place (handout)
- invited talk presented at the University of Ulster, April 18, 2007
- invited talk presented at LUSH in Leiden, February 15, 2007 (handout)
- shorter version presented at the 8th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 23-27, 2007 (handout)

Goals and Sources (handout), presented at the TIN-dag in Utrecht, February 3, 2007

 

2006

One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, cases and adpositions as members of the category P (handout), with Anna Asbury and Veronika Hegedűs
presented at WECOL in Fresno, CA, October 27-29, 2006

Changing the perspective on passives (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at WECOL in Fresno, CA, October 27-29, 2006

Where is the Path with locative prepositions? (handout)
presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 11 in Barcelona, September 21-23, 2006

One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, cases and adpositions as members of the category P (handout), with Anna Asbury and Veronika Hegedűs
presented at the LAGB meeting in Newcastle, August 30 - September 02, 2006

Results at the edge: An event structure based account of passivization (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at Interface Legibility at the Edge in Bucharest, June 25-27, 2006

Results at the edge: A different approach to passives (poster), with Nino Grillo
poster presented at InterPhases in Cyprus, May 18-20, 2006

Particles, adpositions and cases: A unified analysis (handout), with Anna Asbury
presented at the Uiltjesdag in Utrecht, April 19, 2006

 

2005

On directional readings of locative prepositions (handout)
presented at ConSOLE XIV at EHU-U. of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 15-17, 2005

Aspects on passives (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at ConSOLE XIV at EHU-U. of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 15-17, 2005

The aspectual nature of Slavic prefixes (handout)
presented at the LAGB satellite workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity in Cambridge, September 03-04, 2005

The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry (handout)
presented at the workshop on Formal Semantics and Cross-linguistic Data at the ESSLLI 2005 in Edinburgh, August 15-19, 2005

 

2004

Teasing apart telicity and grammatical aspect (handout)
presented at LENCA-2 in Kazan' (Russian Federation), May 11-14, 2004

Adverbial functions of Slavic prefixes (handout)
presented at the Workshop on Event Structure in Linguistic Form and Interpretation in Leipzig, March 17-19, 2004

How temporal is telicity? (handout)
- presented at the Workshop on Argument Realization: Conceptual and Grammatical Factors during the 26th Annual Meeting of the DGfS, February 25-27, 2004
- presented at the 5th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, February 27 - March 01, 2004

 

2003

Slavic Aspect in narrative discourse (handout)
presented at the Uiltjesdagen in Utrecht, April 16-17, 2003.

Differences between Russian and Czech with respect to aspect usage in narrative discourse (handout)
presented at the Workshop on Grammatical Polysemy: The Case of Russian Imperfective Aspect in Leipzig, February 24-25, 2003

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