Academia

Forthcoming

• [with Bill Palmer & Catriona Malau] Diagnosing serial verb constructions: The case of resultatives in Vurës.
• Early written records of Enggano. To appear in: Enggano: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
• [with Erik Zobel] From past to present: Enggano as an Austronesian language. To appear in: Enggano: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.

2024

• The Enggano Language: Nothofer’s contribution to solving a linguistic puzzle [Preprint]. In Christoph Bracks, Arndt Graf & Patrick Keilbart (eds.): Towards the next 40 years of Southeast Asian Studies in Frankfurt. Essays in honour of Bernd Nothofer (Frankfurt East Asian Studies Vol. 6). Munich: Iudicium.

2023

• [with Alexandre François] The road to opacity: Reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *-akin in northern Vanuatu. In Jocelyn Aznar, Christian Döhler & Jozina Vander Klok (eds): Applicatives in Austronesian Languages. NUSA 74:37-79.

2021

• Towards a Theory of Complex Predicates in Australian and Oceanic languages: An Analysis of Coverb Constructions in Wagiman and Serial Verb Constructions in Vurës. PhD Thesis. The University of Newcastle.
• [with Mark Harvey] Complex predication and adverbial modification in Wagiman. In Australian Journal of Linguistics 41(1): 96-129. [DOI]
  
• Babaring lelakon: The use of -ing in Javanese genitive constructions. In Wacana 22(1): 182-206.
  

2019

• Interesting Facts about Vurës: An indigenous language of Vanuatu. In Parrot Time 35: 32-42. [Online]

2018

• Polite Vocabulary in the Javanese Language of Surabaya. In Wacana 19(1): 58-99.

2017

• A Description of Surabayan Javanese with Special Reference to its Linguistic Etiquette. Master's Thesis. University of Frankfurt.

2016

• A Brief Grammar of the Eastern Atadei Language of Lembata, Indonesia. In Linguistik Indonesia 34(2):113-128.

2015

• Language Contact: Malay Influence on Thai. Bachelor's Thesis. University of Frankfurt.

2011

• Kurz nachgefragt – Ist Thailand auf dem Weg, behindertenfreundlich zu werden? In Südostasien. Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog 4: 38-39.

2016

• [with Natalie Dietrich] Gippipedia: Die freie Enzyklopädie. Ein studentisches Projekt von Аҧсшәа bis 中文 anlässlich des 60. Geburtstags Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert 12. März 2016. Frankfurt am Main: Juridicum Verlag Bockenheim.

2020

• On the difference between serial verbs, coverbs and complex predicates. 51ˢᵗ Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) in Perth, Australia.
• Serial Verbs, Coverbs, Preverbs, Complex Verbs and Complex Predicates: Are they all the same? Invited talk at the Linguistics Seminar Series at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
  

2019

• [with Mark Harvey] Adverbial Modification in Wagiman. 50ᵗʰ Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) in Sydney, Australia.
  

• [with Bill Palmer & Catriona Malau] A non-serializing Resultative Construction in Vurës (Vanuatu). 11ᵗh International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL11) in Nouméa, New Caledonia.

• Complex Predicates in Australian and Oceanic Languages [Poster]. LSA 2019 Linguistic Institute in Davis, California.

• [with Bill Palmer] Resultative functions and serialized roots in Vurës. 11ᵗʰ International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL11) in Leiden, Netherlands. [Handout]

• Die indigene Sprachlandschaft Australiens [The indigenous linguistic landscape of Australia]. Invited talk at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

• [with Mark Harvey] A new analysis of -wi in Wagiman complex predicates. Australian Languages Workshop (ALW) in Marysville, Australia. [Handout]

• [with Bill Palmer & Catriona Malau] Typologically rare cause-effect constructions in Vurës. 49ᵗʰ Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) in Adelaide, Australia.
  

2018

• [with Mark Harvey] Coverb Stacking in Wagiman. 49ᵗʰ Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) in Adelaide, Australia.

• On the Serialising Nature of Northernmost Vanuatu: A Comparison of Serial Verb Constructions in the Torres and Banks Languages. Vanuatu Languages Conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

• Serial verb constructions in the Torres-Banks languages of northern Vanuatu. Invited talk at the Linguistics Seminar Series at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

• A verb, a noun, or an adjective? On determining word classes in Wagiman and Vurës. HDR Symposium of the University of Newcastle, Australia.

• What is spoken in Atadei (Lembata): A language, a dialect, or a dialect cluster? East Nusantara Conference 7 in Kupang, Indonesia.

2017

• [with Silvie Strauß] Morphosyntax of Eastern Armenian. Spring School "Language Contact and Language Change in Western Asia" at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.
• The Javanese Language of Surabaya among Young Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Case Study. Invited talk at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.

• Passivbildung ohne Patiens: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen in ausgewählten Sprachen [Forming the passive without a patient: Possibilities and constraints in selected languages]. Invited talk at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.

2016

• Workshop Thai-Schrift [Workshop on the Thai writing system]. 59ᵗʰ German Student's Linguistics Conference (StuTS) at Leipzig University, Germany.

2015

• Features of Surabaya Javanese (Suroboyoan). ISLOJ 5 in Bandung, Indonesia. [Handout]

2013

• 'Kommen' und 'gehen' in ostasiatischen Sprachen ['Come' and 'go' in East Asian language]. 53ᵗʰ German Student's Linguistics Conference (StuTS) at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany. [Handout]

2017

• Language Contact and Language Change in Western Asia (LCLCWA) at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. [Booklet]

2015

• 58ᵗʰ German Student's Linguistics Conference (StuTS) at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

2013

• Java-Tag at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. [Poster]