Talks and lectures

‘Antiapplicative as a comparative concept: a cross-linguistic perspective,’ March 2014, Marburg.

‘The morphosyntactic integration of borrowed adpositions,’ April 2014, Zurich.

‘Evaluating a universal of borrowing: Linear Order Preservation,’ Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split 2013.

‘A rare case of Differential Subject Marking on S/A: the case of Coptic,’ Association of Linguistic Typology 10, Leipzig 2013, with Giorgio Iemmolo.

‘Towards a typology of antiapplicatives,’ Jerusalem, 2013.

‘Marked nominatives and weird nominatives,’ Jerusalem.

‘Excavate your text! The language of Coptic documentary texts,’ Heidelberg.

‘The Coptic verb in light of grammaticalization,’ Jerusalem.

‘Scribes as agents of destandardization,’ Scribes as Agents of Language Change, Cambridge (UK).

‘What (else) are comparative concepts and descriptive categories good for?’ Leipzig.

‘A functional perspective on control and raising,’ Syntactic Theory and

‘How to get to the future: intention and prediction in human languages,’ The Meaning of Being Human, Jerusalem.

‘Functional change and formal change in grammaticalization,’ Tel Aviv.

‘Subjectivity in language: re-examinging the role of the addresee in language change,’ Haifa.

‘A linguistic perspective on “La gramática de la Otredad”: subjectivity and intersubjectivity in language,’ Narratives of Otherness and Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Jerusalem.

‘So you just flow with it’: pronominal choice in soldiers’ testimonies,’ Meditations on Authority, Jerusalem.

‘Cycling to the future without a verb,’ Jerusalem.

‘Functional and non-functional motivations for the emergence of proleptic constructions,’ Linguistic approaches to prolepsis, Liège (with St. Polis).

On the pragmatics of subjectification: the emergence and modalization of an Allative Future in Ancient Egyptian,’ Grammaticalization and (Inter)subjectification, GRAMIS, Brussels (with St. Polis).

‘Towards a typology of adposition borrowing: Greek-origin prepositions in Coptic,’ Linguistic Borrowing in Coptic. Leipzig 2010.

‘Grammatical variation and language change: the case of Greek verb lexemes in the Coptic dialects,’ Beyond Free Variation: Scribal Repertoires from Old Kingdom to Early Islamic Egypt, Oxford.

‘How to get to the future without a verb of motion (or metaphors),’ Humboldt University, Berlin, (with Stéphane Polis).

‘Pragmatic inferencing and the rise of the AllativeFuture in Egyptian,’ Konzeptualisierung von Raum: Morphosyntax und Semantik spatialer Relatoren, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, (with St. Polis).

‘What’s integrated into what (and by whom)?’ Identifying and Describing Lexical Borrowing, Liège.

‘The destandardization of Sahidic in the Fayyum in Early Islamic Egypt,’ Strasbourg University, Strasbourg.

'Reading H.J. Polotsky's Coptic Conjugation System,' Strasbourg.

‘The Ancient Egyptian Language,’ Tel Aviv.

‘Navigating polyfunctionality in the lexicon with a semantic map,’ Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian, Liège, (with St. Polis).

‘The grammaticalization of the periphrastic perfect in Coptic: a typological perspective’ Crossroads IV, Basel.

‘The semantic map of allatives in Biblical Hebrew: a typological approach to radical polysemy,’ Beer Sheva.

‘Nominal determination and focus in Early Bohairic,’ 9th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo.

‘Language standardization and destandardization in Early Islamic Egypt,’ Leipzig.

‘Typology, dialectology, and diachrony: prohibitive constructions in the Coptic dialects,’ Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

‘Coptic-Egyptian linguistics in Jerusalem 1944-2008,’ Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2008.