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TINE BREBAN

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Refereed talks at international meetings

34. (2012) Defining secondary grammaticalization: semantic and formal subprocesses. Workshop Refining grammaticalization, Berlin, 24-25 February 2012.

33. (2011) Complex determinatives 'under construction': a case of constructional emergence. NP2 (Second Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 15-16 September 2011.

32. (2011) The semantic basis of indefinite determiners in English. SLE 44 (The 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea), Logroño, 8-11 September 2011.

31. (2011) From the very beginning: the development of very in definite noun phrases. ICAME32 (32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Oslo,1-5 June 2011.

30. (2010) Discretizations of plural nominals in English. Fourth Conference of the Belgian-Dutch Cognitive Linguistics Association (Benecla). Antwerp, 17-18 December 2010.

29. (2010) The historical development of very: paths and mechanisms of change. International Conference on
Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification, Brussels, 11-13 November 2010.

28. (2010) The mechanism of analogy in a Construction Grammar model of grammaticalization. ICCG6 (Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar), Prague, 3-5 September 2010.

27. (2010) A comprehensive account of the historical and present-day English functions of demonstrative determiners in the English noun phrase. Theme session Situational and Non-Situational Deixis, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius, 2-5 September 2010.

26. (2010) with Kristin Davidse Phoric classifier and secondary determiner uses of English Adjectives. Workshop COST A31 The Uses of Systems of Grammatical Classification, Aarhus, 6-7 February 2010.

25. (2009) Modeling the structural changes involved in the grammaticalization of adjectives into postdeterminers in the English noun phrase. Workshop Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research, Groningen, 8-9 October 2009.

24. (2009) Using syntactic alternations to distinguish premodifying adjectival functions in English NP1 (First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations), Vigo, 2-3 October 2009.

23. (2009) Making the most of historical data: micro-processes and multi-item comparison. ICAME30 (30th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Lancaster, 27-31 May 2009.

22. (2009) Semantic and formal characteristics of secondary grammaticalization. SHEL 6 (6th Biennial Conference on Studies in the History of the English Language), Banff, 30 May -3 April 2009.

21. (2009) Secondary determiners as lexical markers triggering a generalized interpretation of English noun phrases. 10th Annual Semantics Fest of the Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop Construction of Meaning, Stanford CA, 13-14 March 2009.

20. (2009) English adjectives expressing type-anaphora in English noun phrases. BLS 35 (35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society), Berkeley CA, 14-16 February 2009.

19. (2008) Secondary determiners as formal markers of generalized instantiation in English nominals. CSDL 9 (9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language), Cleveland OH, 18-20 October 2008.

18.(2008) with Kristin Davidse The complex deictic semantics of the indefinite determiner + postdeterminer unit in English. ISLE 1 (First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), Freiburg, 8-11 October 2008.

17. (2008) Leftward movement and syntactic reanalysis in the deictification of English adjectives. Workshop Information Structure and Syntactic Change. ICEHL 15 (Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), München, 24-30 August 2008.

16. (2008) A comprehensive overview of the textually intersubjective meanings of the complex deictic unit
the + postdeterminer adjective. NRG4 (New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4), Leuven, 16-19 July 2008.

15. (2008) Towards a comprehensive definition of the ‘postdeterminer’ in English. ELC1 (First ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics), Santiago de Compostela, 10-11 May 2008.

14. (2008) Emphasizer and postdeterminer uses of same and very: paths of secondary grammaticalization. Workshop History and structure in the English noun phrase, Sheffield, 4-5 April 2008.

13. (2007) (Inter)subjectification and leftward movement in the English noun phrase. SHEL 5 (5th Biennial Conference on Studies in the History of the English Language), Athens GA, 4-6 October 2007.

12. (2007) with Kristin Davidse. Subjectification and structural movement of prenominal adjectives in the English NP: a diachronic perspective. Paper presented at International Conference on Adjectives, Lille, 13-15 September 2007.

11. (2007) with Kristin Davidse and Sigi Vandewinkel. Adjectives and subjectivity: towards a comprehensive typology. Paper presented at ICLCE2 (2nd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Toulouse, 2-4 July 2007.

10. (2007) Subjectification and leftward movement in the English noun phrase. Paper presented at ICAME28 (28th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Stratford-upon-Avon, 23-27 May 2007.

9. (2007) ‘Constructional persistence' in the grammaticalization of English adjectives of difference. Paper presented at the workshop What's New in Grammaticalization, Berlin, 11-12 May 2007.

8. (2006) with Kristin Davidse. Deictification, or the development of ground-related meanings of adjectives. Paper presented at CSDL 2006 (8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language: Language in Action), San Diego (California), 3-5 November 2006.

7. (2006) A new ‘direction' in subjectification: the hypothesis of leftward movement as illustrated by the development of the adjectives of difference. Paper presented at DELS (Directions in English Language Studies), Manchester, 6-8 April 2006.

6. (2005) The grammaticalization of the English adjectives of comparison: a change in structural relation. Paper presented at NRG3 (New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3), Santiago de Compostela, 17-21 July 2005.

5. (2005) with Kristin Davidse. The development of postdeterminer uses of adjectives: grammaticalization and semantic shift. Paper presented at ICAME26 (26th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Ann Arbor Michigan, 12-15 May 2005.

4. (2005) with K. Davidse. The grammaticalization of attributive adjectives into postdeterminers: General phoric mechanisms. Paper presented at FITIGRA (From ideational to interpersonal: Perspectives from grammaticalization), University of Leuven, 10-12 February 2005.

3. (2004) Comparative reference: A lexico-grammatical characterization of the different phoric patterns. Paper presented at the 5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, University of Azores, 23-24 September 2004.

2. (2004) The grammaticalization of the English adjectives of comparison: A diachronic case study. Paper presented at the 25th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, University of Verona, 19-23 May 2004.

1. (2003) Grammaticalization and subjectification of the English adjectives of general comparison. Paper presented at the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference as part of the theme session Pathways of subjectivity (convened by A. Athanasiadou, C. Canakis and B. Cornillie), University of La Rioja, 20-25 July 2003.

Invited talks

4. (2011) Complex determiners 'under construction': a case of constructional emergence. Department of English of the University of Vienna, Vienna, 25 November 2011.

3. (2009) Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the deictification of English adjectives. Colloquium of the Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop Construction of Meaning, Stanford CA, 16 January 2009.

2. (2008) Deictification of adjectives in the English noun phrase. Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA, 25 November 2009.

1. (2008) How English adjectives get deictified. Department of Germanic Languages of the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, 5 November 2008

Other talks

4. (2009) Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the deictification of English adjectives. Colloquium of the Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop Construction of Meaning, Stanford CA, 16 January 2009.

3. (2008) Deictification of adjectives in the English noun phrase. Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA, 25 November 2009.

2. (2008) How English adjectives get deictified. Department of Germanic Languages of the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, 5 November 2008

1. (2003) The cohesive function of comparative postdeterminers: Different mechanisms of participant identification. Paper presented at the 3rd international workshop of the Systemic Functional Research Community on Interpersonal and Ideational Grammar, Ghent University, 27-29 November 2003.