Vorträge / Talks

Tagung "Viking Things: Objects and Agency in Old Norse Culture", Siemens-Stiftung / LMU Skandinavistik München, 15. September 2023
"Speaking Objects in Early English Literature"

Gastvortrag Universität Zürich, Lecture Series “Variation and Change in the History of the English Lexicon”, 21 March 2023
“Meanings and Functions of ‑lic(e)/‑ly in the History of English”

Symposium “Historical English Word-Formation”, LMU München, 18 February 2023
“Morphologically Marking Epistemicity in the History of English: English -ly and the Functional Diversification of English Adverbs”

Ninth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Sankelmark, 17 Juni 2022
“Maker-Formulae in Anglo-Saxon Literacy: Runic and Beyond”

Eleventh International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 11), University of Florence (Italy), 6 February 2019
““Assay, and he shal fynde it that so dooth”: Imperatives in Middle English Verbal Interaction”

Ringvorlesung ZMR, LMU (zum Thema „Herrschaft und Widerstand“), 29. November 2018
„Zur Herrschaft der Frau über den Mann im englischen Spätmittelalter - Die Maistrie von Chaucers Wife of Bath“

ICEHL XX Edinburgh, Workshop “Paratextual Communication in a Historical Linguistic Perspective”, 28 August 2018
“Anglo-Saxon Paratexts: Liminal Material in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts”

Gastvortrag, Universität Augsburg, 28. Juni 2018
“‘There's an issue there ...’: Signalling Functions of Discourse-Deictic There in the History of English”

Gastvortrag, Universität Stavanger (Norwegen), 1. Juni 2018
“Anglo-Saxon Microtexts: Language and Communicative Functions”

Symposium “Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts” 
LMU München, 3.-4. November 2017
“Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: Introduction”

Symposium “Some Thoughts on Language and Language Change”
Università degli Studi di Firenze, 10. Oktober 2017
“‘There's an issue there ...’: Signalling Functions of Discourse-Deictic There in the History of English”

Tagung „(Zu-)Hören“, Interdisziplinäre Tagung
Orff-Zentrum München, 29. Juni 2017
“Einführung“

ICAME
Prag, 23. Mai 2017
Workshop “Back to text: Contextualizing corpus data in historical and variationist English linguistics” (convenors: Kristin Bech / Ruth Möhlig),
“Reclaiming Space and Time - The Manuscript Context of Old English Biblical and Homiletic Texts in the Helsinki Corpus”

19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Duisburg-Essen, 22–26 August 2016
Workshop "Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Grammatical Patterns in the History of English" (convenors: Sylvie Hancil, Alexander Haselow)
"You may have a point there: On the Development of Intersubjective there"

Medieval Conference "Feast and Famine"
Leeds, 4 July 2016
Roundtable discussion organized by the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America: "More Famine than Feast? Preparing for the Academic Job Search"

Linguistisches Kolloquium
LMU Munich, 9 December 2015
"Wenn Konnektoren spalten: Zur Prosodie von Adverbien in Mittelstellung im Englischen"

International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) 2015
Glasgow, 7 August 2015
"Anglo-Saxon Microtexts: Language and Communicative Functions"

Gastvorträge, Universität Augsburg and Universität Würzburg
Augsburg, 15 January 2014 and Würzburg, 11 November 2014
"Wenn Konnektoren spalten: Zur Mittelstellung von Adverbien im Englischen" (guest lectures)

The Subcarpathian Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture; The 3rd Rzeszów Anglistentag
Rzeszów, 22 April 2013
"'Waiter, there’s a horse in my lasagna': Animals and their Meats in the History of English" (plenary talk)

17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Zurich, 23 August 2012
"Knitting and Splitting Information: Medial Placement of Adverbials in the History of English" (keynote presentation)

17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Zurich, 23 August 2012
[with Lucia Kornexl] "Disentangling 'an Enduring Myth': The Lexical 'Animal-Meat' Divide in English as a Model Case for the Dynamics of Borrowing"

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Eichstätt, 28 November 2011
Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung "K'Universale: Scheitern"
"Gescheiterte Kommunikation: Missverstehen und Missverständnisse"

Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, 31 May 2010
"Der Artus-Mythos im Film"

Workshop "Connectives in synchrony and diachrony in European languages"
Helsinki, 16 April 2010
"A Focus on Adverbial Connectors: Connecting and Focussing in the History of English" (keynote lecture)

Universität Erlangen
Erlangen, 12 January 2009
"Forþæm, hence, after all: Variation und Sprachwandel in der Geschichte kausaler Konnektoren des Englischen" (guest lecture)

Anglistentag 2008
Tübingen, 5 October 2008
Section "Borders and Transitions in Language, Literature and Culture" (convenors: Andrew James Johnston, Hans Sauer)
"The Language Divide: The Long Nineteenth Century from a Linguistic Point of View"

Vorlesungsreihe des Zentrums für Mittelalter- und Renaissance-Forschung
LMU Munich, 10 July 2008 
"Der Artus-Mythos im Film"

10. LIPP-Symposium "Sprachwandel und Variation"
LMU Munich, 9 November 2007
"Forþæm, hence, after all: Variation und Sprachwandel in der Geschichte kausaler Konnektoren des Englischen"

OED Forum
Oxford, 30 March 2007
"After all – moreover – swaþeahhwæþere: The Present and Past of Adverbial Connectors"

14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006
"Sentence-Final Coordinators and Long-Term Linguistic Change in English"

Anglistentag 2005
Bamberg, 18–21 September 2005
Organization of, chair of and introduction to the section "Modern English in the Making" [with Marianne Hundt, Universität Heidelberg]

Anglistentag 2004
Aachen, 26–29 September 2004
Section "England in the Middle Ages: Language, Literature, and Culture"
"Forhwi 'hence': Shifting Deictics in Early English Causal Connection"

13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Vienna, 23–28 August 2004
Convenor: Workshop "Clausal Connection in the History of English" [with Anneli Meurman-Solin, University of Helsinki]

Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Mediävistik: Standpunkte und Perspektiven
Bamberg, 21–22 May 2004
[with Hans Sauer] "Das englische Mittelalter im Film"

Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Mediävistik: Standpunkte und Perspektiven
Bamberg, 21–22 May 2004
Statements, chair of closing discussion

Halig Rod: The Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Winchester, 4–6 July 2003
"The Sign of the Cross and the Gospels in Anglo-Saxon England: A Semiotic Study of Words Denoting CROSS in Old English"

Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Innsbruck, 21 November 2002
"Conjuncts in the History of English" (guest lecture)

12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Glasgow, 22–26 August 2002
"Conjuncts: Their Semantic and Functional Development in the History of English"

12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Glasgow, 22–26 August 2002
Workshop on Historical Pragmatics
"Soþlice, forsothe, truly: Truth, Facts, Adverbs and Historical Pragmatics"

11th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000
"Is It, Stylewise or Otherwise, Wise to Use -wise? Domain Adverbs and the History of English -wise"

Ritual and Belief in Anglo-Saxon England
Oxford, 7–9 July 2000
"Gospel Lections and Preaching in the Vernacular in the Anglo-Saxon Period"

New Reflections on Grammaticalization: An International Symposium
Potsdam, 17–19 June 1999
"Actually: soþlice, soothly, trewely, indeed: Grammaticalization of Truth-intensifying Adverbs in the History of English"

10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Manchester, 21–28 August 1998
"Social Networks in Old English: The Benedictine Reform, the 'Winchester Vocabulary' and Standardisation in Old English"

Words, Lexemes, Concepts: Approaches to the Lexicon.
Symposium in Honour of Leonhard Lipka on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
Munich, 13–15 June 1998
"gerles, girls, grrrlz – Girlpower!"

International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Tenth Conference
Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
"Soþlice and witodlice: Discourse Markers in Old English"

International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Eighth Conference
Palermo, 7–12 July 1997
"The Gospel-Lectionary in Anglo-Saxon England: Manuscript Evidence and Liturgical Practice"