Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Dr. Kilu von Prince

Vorträge vor der Zeit am ZAS

Invited Talks

2019

  • October. Reciprocal strategies in Daakaka. Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals. Utrecht.
  • June. The Melinco project: The meaning of linguistic complexity. ERC Starting Grant selection. Brussels.
  • January. Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf Irrealität in der Sprache. Theoretical and empirical perspectives on irreality in language. Bielefeld University.

2018

  • Juli. Counterfactuality and Past. What-if group, University of Konstanz. 2018 Juli. Mapping irreality – Temporal and modal dimensions. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Konstanz.
  • May. Mapping irreality. Linguistics Colloquium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • April. How dense can you get? Correlates of information density as factors in crosslinguistic comparison. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.

2017

  • December. The role of corpora in comparative research. Case studies from the MelaTAMP project. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Jena.
  • December. Multi-verb constructions – is there a continuum?. Workshop on Multiverb constructions. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • June. Tagging tense and modality. FEAST, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
  • April. The future is what the universe wants. Workshop on imperatives, ZAS, Berlin.
  • January. Modalität und Tempus aus ozeanischer Perspektive. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Köln. (unable to attend).

2016

  • June. Eine ozeanische Perspektive auf Modalität und Tempus. Colloquium, Kiel. 2016 April. Prioritizing entries and choosing example sentences. Dictionaria workshop, Leipzig.
  • June. In defense of events as a defining property of serial verb constructions. TripleA (The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages, Potsdam.
  • Possessive Splits. Semantics Colloquium, Universität Tübingen.
  • The dawning place and the dozing eyes – nominalizing weather events and medical states in Daakaka. Invited talk at a workshop on Lexical Flexibility in Oceanic Languages, Amsterdam. (unable to attend).
  • Lexical relationality and the alienability distinction. GLOW 37, workshop on Understanding possession, Brussels.

2013

  • Sprachdokumentation im Pazifik. Colloquium, Universität Potsdam.
  • Meanings of TAM Markers in Daakaka. Colloquium, Universität Potsdam.

2012

  • Transitivität als Wortart-übergreifende Kategorie? – Evidenz aus Daakaka. Universität Regensburg.
  • Event argument serializations in Daakaka, fast and slow. Colloquium, Universität Leipzig.

Conference talks

2019

  • September. With Marcin Kilarski. Expressing ideologies through linguistic examples. The case of polysynthesis and recursion. International Conference Ideology and Linguistic Ideas 2019, Tbilisi.
  • September. With Ana Krajinović, Manfred Krifka and Michael Franjieh. Realis and Irrealis in Oceanic. ALT, Pavia.
  • June. With Ana Krajinović, Manfred Krifka1, Valérie Guérin and Michael Franjieh. It would not be good if… Canonical apprehensive structures in Vanuatu languages. APLL 11, Leiden
  • May. With Ana Krajinović and Manfred Krifka. Irrealis in branching time. AFLA, London, Canada.
  • March. With Manfred Krifka and Ana Krajinović. Highlights from the MelaTAMP project: Methods and results. Vielfaltslinguistik 3. Cologne.

2018

  • April. With Vera Demberg. POS tag perplexity as a measure of syntactic complexity. Measuring Linguistic Complexity (satellite workshop at EVOLANG), Torun.
  • February. Poster with Ana Krajinović and Manfred Krifka. Storyboards for the elicitation of TAM contexts in Melanesia. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.

2017

  • December. With Ana Krajinović (presenter). Comparable corpora for qualitative and quantitative comparison of under-documented languages. ALT, Canberra.
  • July. With Ana Krajinović (presenter). What makes a mood-prominent language in the Oceanic context?. COOL 10, Honiara.
  • June. With Anna Margetts. Expressing possibility in Saliba-Logea and Daakaka. APLL 9, Paris.

2016

  • December. Past and counterfactuality in the Daakaka distal. workshop on Past tense, Göttingen.
  • July. Paradigm-induced implicatures in TAM-expression: A view from the Daakaka distal. Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh.
  • July. Epistemic indefinites in Daakaka. Triple A, Tübingen.

2013

  • Diagnosing clausal boundaries in serial verb constructions. Language Documentation: Past – Present – Future, Hanover.

2011

  • On the Daakaka modal system: The distal. Speaking of Possibility and Time, Göttingen.
  • On the Daakaka modal system: imperatives and futures. Chronos 10, Aston University, Birmingham.

2008

  • Nominal modifcation in three languages. ICLC 5, Leuven.
  • Attributive Linkers. SWL 3, Berlin.

Internal talks

2017

  • November. The syntax-morphology trade-off. Language Science Colloquium. Universität des Saarlandes.
  • October. Information density, complexity and cross-linguistic variation. Colloquium; Universität des Saarlandes.
  • September. Werkzeuge und Workflows im MelaTAMP-Projekt. CLARIN-D F-AG 3 Workshop. Datenmanagement und Korpuserstellung: Workflows und Werkzeuge; HZSK, Hamburg.
  • July. Storyboards for the MelaTAMP project. MelaTAMP workshop, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
  • March. with Ryan Bochnak and Anne Mucha. Towards an ontology of modal flavors – introduction. Saarbrücken, DGfS.

2015

  • Definiteness and specificity cross-linguistically, SIAS Summer Institute. ZAS Berlin
  • When the mood is tense, SIAS Summer Institute. ZAS Berlin.
  • Conditionals in a many-worlds semantics. ZAS Berlin.

2013

  • Introduction to Bislama. ZAS Berlin.
  • Problems with and solutions to consolidating corpus data from fieldwork. Exploring data from language documentation, ZAS Berlin.
  • with Manfred Krifka. Modality in Daakaka and Daakie. ZAS Berlin.

Public talks, exhibitions

2014

  • A Melanesian perspective on time and reality. STATE Experience Science Festival.

2013

  • Bislama für Anfänger (Bislama for beginners). Long night of sciences (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften), ZAS Berlin.

2011-2016

  • With Soraya Hosni, Manfred Krifka und Friederike Kitschen: Multimedia installation about the DoBeS project “Ambrym”, Humboldtbox Berlin.

2011

  • Science Slam, invited by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Bonn.

2010

  • Science Slam in Berlin (Lido).

2007, 2008

  • Talks and design of interactive lessons at the respective Long Nights of Science (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften), at the institute for General Linguistics, TU Berlin.