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‘(*)’ = by refereed abstract
(invited). Topic to be confirmed. [talk to be presented at
the Linguistics Colloquium, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 16 September 2010].
(invited). Topic to be confirmed. [talk to be presented at
an international conference on grammar and discourse, University of Tsukuba,
Japan, 14 September 2010].
(*) (with Yury Shtyrov [first author] and Friedemann
Pulvermüller [third author]) Neural circuits for distributed lexemes: MEG evidence. [poster presented at Neuroscience 2009, Chicago, US, 17-19 October 2009]
(*) (with Yury Shtyrov [second author] and Friedemann
Pulvermüller [third author]) Literal but listed phrasal verbs. [was to be
presented at the (cancelled) 11th International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference (ICLC-11), University of California at Berkeley, US, 28 July - 3
August 2009]
(invited) (with Yury Shtyrov [second author] and Friedemann
Pulvermüller [third author]) The magnetism between verbs and particles: an MEG
perspective [presented at a workshop on particles, prepositions and particle
verbs, organized by SESYLIA, Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, 5 June 2009]
(*) Fillers without gaps in the English comparative
correlative. [presented at “Grammars in Construction(s) – Grammaires en
Construction(s), Third International AFLiCo Conference”, Université Paris Ouest
– Nanterre – La Défense, France, 27-29 May 2009]
(invited) (with
Yury Shtyrov [second author] and Friedemann Pulvermüller [third author]) “They’re magnetic! MEG-resultaten over de aantrekking van werkwoorden en
partikels” [presented for the Werkgroep Over Taal (WOT), Free University
Brussels, 7 May 2009]
(*) (with Yury Shtyrov [first author] and Friedemann
Pulvermüller [third author]) Are phrasal verbs
treated by the brain as words or as phrases? Magnetic MMN solves long-standing
linguistic puzzle. [poster presented at the "Fifth Conference on Mismatch
Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications" (MMN09),
Budapest, Hungary, 4-7 April 2009]
(*) (with Yury Shtyrov [second author] and Friedemann Pulvermüller
[third author]) Teaming up in the brain. [presented at the third Cogling
Day. Leiden University, The Netherlands, 19-20 December 2008]
(*) (with Yury Shtyrov [second author] and Friedemann
Pulvermüller [third author]) MEG evidence for the lexeme status of phrasal
verbs. [presented at the 5th International Construction Grammar Conference
(ICCG-5), Austin, Texas, US, 26-28 September 2008]
(*) (with Yury Shtyrov [first author] and Friedemann
Pulvermüller [third author]) MEG evidence for lexicalized processing of phrasal
verbs. [presented at the International Conference on Biomagnetism 2008 (BIOMAG
2008), Sapporo, Japan, 25-29 August 2008]
(invited) A satellite view of phrasal verbs: Zooming in on
the particle phrase. [presented at the colloquium Verbes et particules,
Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, 27 February 2008]
(*) Phrasal verb derivations: Competence and performance.
[presented as 'Making sense of nonce-nouns like doubler-upper' at the
Second Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association: New Directions
in Cognitive Linguistics / Cognitive Linguistics, Applied, Cardiff University,
UK, 27-30 August 2007] [abstract]
(with Friedemann Pulvermüller and Yury Shtyrov) Cool down
and *cool up: Verb-particle matches and mismatches in the MEG/MMNm and
their implications for the mental representation of phrasal verbs. [research
proposal presented for the Speech and Language Group and again for the Imaging
Interest Group of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
University, UK, 3 and 9 July 2007]
Agrammatism: (A) brief presentation (of) (its) characteristic(s)
(and) (of) (its) neurobiological basis. [presented at the RCEAL, University of
Cambridge, UK, 14 May 2007, as part of a PhD course on ‘The Neuroscience of
Language’]
(*) Constraints construed as constructions. [presented at
the second Cogling Day. K.U.Leuven, Belgium, 15 December 2006]
(*) The
time-is-space metaphor: Some linguistic evidence that its end is near.
[presented at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St.
Petersburg, Russia, 9-13 June 2006]
(*) The microstructure of English particle phrases.
[alternate paper at the conference "Syntax and Semantics of Spatial
P", University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2-4 June 2006]
(*) When little wretched words wield their weight: The effect of particles on a
verb’s arguments. [presented at Collocations and Idioms 1: The First Nordic
Conference on Syntactic Freezes, University of Joensuu, Finland, 19-20 May
2006] [abstract]
(*) The X-er... the Y-er... prefabs: Even more peripheral or all the more core? [presented at the
Workshop on “La scalarité : autant de moyens d’expressions, autant d'effets de
sens", Brussels, Belgium, 25-26 February 2006] [abstract]
(*) Clean up your room or clean your room up:
Is free choice an illusion? [presented at the Workshop on “Describing and
Modeling Variation in Grammar”, 28th Annual Meeting of the DGfS,
University of Bielefeld, Germany, 22-24 February 2006]
(*) Particles and perfectivity: Toning down the received
opinion. [presented at the Workshop on “Tense/aspect/modality: Perfectivity and
imperfectivity”, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 6 October 2005] [handout]
(invited) Down with le verbe à particule ! Up
with la particule à verbe ! Towards a particle revolution. [presented at
the Vendanges Linguistiques, Journées d’étude « Sémantique et
syntaxe des particules verbales en anglais : synchronie et diachronie »,
Monbazillac, France, 15-16 September 2005]
(*) Contextual cues for particle placement. [presented at
the 9th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 9), panel session
on “Context in Construction Grammar”, Riva del Garda, Italy, 10-15 July 2005]
(*) What should stockings look like? On the storage
of linguistic units. [presented at the international conference “From Gram to
Mind: Grammar as cognition”, University of Bordeaux, France, 19-21 May 2005]
(*) Negation in three marginal constructions in English.
[presented at the international conference on “Negation: Form, figure of
speech, conceptualization”, University of Tours, France, 8-9 October 2004]
(*) Don’t throw {out the baby / the baby out} with the bath
water, or why we shouldn’t ban alternations altogether. [poster presented at
the 3rd International Construction Grammar Conference (ICCG-3), University of
Marseille, France, 7-10 July 2004]
Meervoudig -er bij Engelse partikelwerkwoorden.
[‘Multiple -er on English particle verbs’; presented at the
“Morfologiedagen 2003”, University of Ghent, Belgium, 4-5 December 2003]
(with Renaat Declerck and Susan Reed) Het modaal systeem in
het Engels en het geval can. [‘The modal system in English and the case
of can’; presented as part of a series of PhD seminars, K.U.Leuven
Campus Kortrijk, Belgium, 9 January 2003]
(*) Paths and goals (and parts and wholes), and the
aspectual difference between certain prepositions and particles. [presented at
the international conference on “Adpositions of Movement”, K.U.Leuven, Belgium,
14-16 January 2002]
(*) Participant roles and the role of particles. [presented
at the 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 7), University
of California, Santa Barbara, US, 22-27 July 2001; previously presented as a
poster at the “Cognitive Science Graduate Student Association Poster Session 2001”,
Center for Cognitive Science, University of Buffalo, US, 28 February 2001]
(*) The meaning of the particle dè in West-Flemish: A
reply to Haegeman. [presented at the international conference on “Discourse
particles, modal and focal particles and all that stuff…”, Belgian and Dutch
Science Foundation (FWO/NWO), Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 December 2000]
(*) Hopping about, dancing away and grooving on into the
night: Atelic particles in English. [presented at the Workshop on “Paths
and Telicity in Event Structure”, European Summer School in Language Logic and
Information (ESSLLI) 2000, The University of Birmingham, UK, 7-11 August 2000]
Keep (on) looking for differences. [presented at the annual
Spring Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, 9 May
1999]
On on in to Verb on. [presented at the Centre
for Research into Grammatical and Lexical Meaning, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, 10
March 1999]
Kriebelt het, dan moet je sporten: Conditionele V1-zinnen. [‘If it itches, go in for
sports. Conditional V1-sentences’; presented at the annual Spring Meeting
of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, University of Namur, Belgium, 26 April
1997]
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