NOTE: the following list does not include talks given in Freiburg or at neighboring institutions.

• 2010. “Aggregative Dialektologie”. Guest lecture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, January 28.
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• 2009. “Varieties of English by Numbers”. Guest lecture, University of Zurich, December 11.
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• 2009. “Changing habitats versus changing grammars: the case of genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts”. Workshop on “Corpus-based Advances in Historical Linguistics” (sponsored by the Philological Society), The University of York, November 14.
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• 2009. “Variationist sociolinguistics meets morphological typology: grammatical analyticity vs. syntheticity in varieties of English”. NWAV38, Ottawa, October 22-25.
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• 2009. “Diachronic genitive variability and grammaticalization theory”. Workshop on 'Form-meaning co-variation in grammaticalization', NWAV38, Ottawa, October 22-25.
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• 2009. “Corpus-based dialectometry: The grammar of traditional British English dialects”. Third International Conference Grammar & Corpora, Mannheim, September 22-24.
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• 2009. “What happened to the s-genitive? Genitive variation after Early Modern English”. Workshop on “Morpho-syntactic categories and the expression of possession”, The University of Manchester, April 3-4.

• 2008. “Varieties of English world-wide in a typological perspective”. Guest lecture, University of Paderborn, December 11.

• 2008. “Typological parameters of intralingual variation: grammatical analyticity and syntheticity in varieties of English”. Job talk, University of Hamburg, December 3.

• 2008. “Dialectology by numbers: World Englishes in the aggregate view”. Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, UT Austin, November 10.

• 2008 (with Lieselotte Anderwald). “Why grammar is real – a usage-based perspective on patterns”. Anglistentag 2008, Tübingen, October 5–8.

• 2008. “Corpus-based dialectometry: English dialects in the British Isles”. MethodsXIII, Leeds, UK, August 4–8.

• 2008 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Syntheticity, analyticity, and grammaticity inWorld Englishes”. MethodsXIII, Leeds, UK, August 4–8.

• 2008 (with Daniela Kolbe). “The influence of persistence factors on the choice of complementizer”. MethodsXIII, Leeds, UK, August 4–8.

• 2008. “The joys of analyzing aggregate linguistic data”. Invitational symposium on “Approaches to Variation and Change in English”, University of Bamberg, July 21–23.

• 2008. “Probabilistic grammars in time, space, and across genres: the case of the English genitive alternation”. Guest lecture, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (University of Stuttgart), July 3.

• 2008. “Typological parameters of intralingual variation: grammatical analyticity and syntheticity in varieties of English”. Job talk, University of Jena, April 26.

• 2008 (with Bernd Kortmann). “The complexity of grammars: From the study of large-scale variation in English to language typology”. Plenary given at the 30th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachforschung, February 27–29.

• 2007 (with Bernd Kortmann). “World Englishes between simplification and complexification”. IAWE13, Regensburg, Germany, October 4–6.

• 2007. “Probing probabilistic grammars in time, space, and across genres”. Invited talk at the theme session “Cognitive Sociolinguistics”, ICLC10, Krakow, July 15–20.

• 2007. “Persistence as a probabilistic determinant of word order variation”. Guest lecture, University of Paderborn, May 31.

• 2007 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Between simplification and complexification: Non-standard varieties of English around the world”. Workshop “Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable”, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, April 12–14.

• 2007. “Language users as creatures of habit: probing the psycholinguistic underpinnings of linguistic variation”. Guest lecture, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, March 28.

• 2007. “Psycholinguistics meets variationist sociolinguistics: the case of morphosyntactic persistence”. Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, March 11.

• 2006. “Persistence, Repetitiveness, and Priming: A Corpus-Linguistic Perspective”. Guest lecture, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, November 17.

• 2006 (with Lars Hinrichs). “A multivariate analysis of genitive marking in standard English corpora”. NWAV35, Ohio State University, Columbus, November 9–12.

• 2006. “Trigger happy lexis: the case of lexical persistence”. “Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface” (ELeGI). University of Hanover, October 5-7.

• 2006 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective”. Symposium “World Englishes: Vernacular Universals vs. Contact-Induced Change”. Mekrijärvi (Finland), September 1–3.

• 2006 (with Lars Hinrichs). “Genitive marking in standard English using -s and of : A multivariate analysis of the POS-tagged Brown family of corpora”. ICAME27, University of Helsinki, Finland, May 24–28.

• 2006 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Varieties of English: A Global Perspective”. Seventh Creolistics Workshop “Simplicity and complexity in pidgins and creoles”, University of Giessen, Germany, April 6–8.

• 2006 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Morphosyntactic Doubling Phenomena in Non-Standard Varieties of English”. Workshop “Syntactic Doubling in European Dialects”, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, March 16–18.

• 2005 (with Bernd Kortmann). “The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in varieties of English world-wide”. NWAV34, New York University, NYC, October 20–23.

• 2005 (with Hubert Cuyckens). “The role of register in the shift from to-infinitive to gerundive complement”. ICLC9, Seoul, July 17–22.

• 2005. “Persistence in Spoken English: A Variationist Approach”. ICLAVE3, Amsterdam, June 23–25.

• 2005 (with Nils Goldschmidt). “What do economists talk about? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals”. “Rhetoric and Economics: An Interdisciplinary Conference”, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, June 6–9.

• 2005 (with Bernd Kortmann). “The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in English based Pidgins and Creoles”. Workshop “Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates”, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, June 3–5.

• 2005. “Creatures of habit: persistence, performance, and linguistic theory”. Job talk, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 7.

• 2004. “Never change a winning team: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English”. NWAV33, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 30–October 3.

• 2004. “On operationalizing syntactic complexity”. JADT2004, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, March 10–12.