upcoming: Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2025) Synchrone und diachrone Variation in wo-Relativsätzen. D-A-CH_LVC: Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel im deutschsprachigen Raum. München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1–3 April 2025. [link]
upcoming: Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2025) Identification and change: Patterns in English comparative degree formation. 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2025), workshop: Variation and Change: A challenge for Linguistic Representations?, Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 5–7 March 2025. [link] [abstract]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) Sprachkontakt und welch-Relativsätze im Frühneuhochdeutschen. SaRDiS 2024: Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 15–16 November 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) The journey of the relative pronoun who in the North of England. 8th International Conference on Late Modern English (LModE8), Salamanca, University of Salamanca, 2–4 October 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) The loss of wh-based relative pronouns in the Southwest of England. 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE2024), Alicante, University of Alicante, 26–28 September 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) Reconsidering the relative cycle: Reanalysis and language contact in Middle English relative clauses. The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Annual Conference 2024 (LAGB 2024), Newcastle, Newcastle University, 27–30 August 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) Clause size in German elliptical comparatives. Ninth International Symposium in Linguistics, workshop: Theoretical and empirical issues in the study of clause size, Bucharest, "Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, 23–24 May 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) Cycles and reanalysis in inherent and contact-induced changes: Against a declarative analysis of depictive manner complements. Adverbial clauses in argument positions, Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 5–6 April 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2024) Sprachkontakt und Vielfältigkeit: Tendenzen und Mythen. 24. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK 24), Hannover, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 21–22 March 2024. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2023) Hypothetische Vergleichssätze im Alemannischen: Implikationen für den Sprachwandel. SaRDiS 2023: Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 10–11 November 2023 (invited talk). [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2023) Irish English resumptive pronouns and Celtic contact: Implications on agreement and movement in relative clauses. The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Annual Conference 2023 (LAGB 2023), Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, 29 August – 1 September 2023. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2023) Fanselow (2003): Münchhausen-style head movement and the analysis of Verb-Second. Workshop on Gisbert Fanselow's Contributions to Syntactic Theory, Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 27–29 April 2023 (invited talk). [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2023) Economy, innovation, and analogy: Effects of language contact on English verb fronting. 45th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2023), workshop: Economy, routine and creativity in syntactic change, Cologne, Universität zu Köln, 7–10 March 2023. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2022) Die Kasushierarchie und Asymmetrien in Relativsätzen des Alemannischen. SaRDiS 2022: Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 4–5 November 2022 (invited talk). [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2022) Embedded inversion in Welsh English: Contact effects and markedness. The 6th International Conference on English Language and Anglophone Literatures Today, session: Formal Approaches to Embedding, Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, 29–30 October 2022. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2022) Lokative Relativsätze im Schwedischen und die Akzessibilitätshierarchie. 25. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik (ATdS 2022), workshop: Sprachwissenschaft, Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 6–8 September 2022. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2022) Relative markers and subject-object asymmetries in the Wycliffe Bible. The 12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 12), Glasgow, University of Glasgow, 22–24 August 2022. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2022) Subject-object asymmetries and the development of relative clauses between Late Middle English and Early Modern English. 42nd TABU Dag, Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 9–10 June 2022. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2022) Extraposition in German comparatives and the optionality of rightward movement. 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2022), workshop: Optionality and non-optionality of syntactic movement, Tübingen, Universität Tübingen, 23–25 February 2022. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2021) Sprachwandel und syntaktische Stabilität. Habilitation lecture, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 8 December 2021. [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2021) Afrikaans relative clauses and the principles of morphological and syntactic markedness. Afrikaans Grammar Workshop III (AGW3), Amsterdam, Meertens Instituut, 30 September – 1 October 2021. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2021) Relative clauses in South Slavic and the predictability of morphosyntactic features. 14th European Conference on the Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-14), Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, 2–4 June 2021. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2021) Markedness and the system of comparative degree formation in English and German. 21. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK 21), Oldenburg, Universität Oldenburg, 25–26 March 2021. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2021) Syntactic paradigms, markedness and similative markers in comparative and relative clauses. 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2021), workshop: Grammatical gaps: Definition, typology and theory, Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 23–26 February 2021. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2019) Relative complementisers in Serbo-Croatian comparatives. 14th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-14), Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 11–13 September 2019. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2019) Doubling in Germanic relative clauses. Generative Grammatik des Südens 2019 (GGS 45), Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 19–21 July 2019. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2019) English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 34 (CGSW 34), Konstanz, Universität Konstanz, 14–15 June 2019. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2019) Relative features and lower complementisers in West-Germanic comparatives. Germanic Sandwich 2019 (GS2019), Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, 23–24 May 2019. [link] [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2018) Equative and relative markers: The influence of morphology on the complementiser system. Lecture as part of the recruitment procedure for the professorship in English Linguistics (W3), Universität Konstanz, 6 November 2018. [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2018) Complementisers, word order and a non-cartographic approach to the CP-domain. Cartography and Explanatory Adequacy, Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 24–25 May 2018 (invited talk). [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Verdoppelungen in Relativsätzen und der Status von Relativpartikeln in Dialekten des Deutschen. SaRDiS 2017: Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 3–4 November 2017. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Die CP-Peripherie in norwegischen Vergleichskonstruktionen. 23. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik (ATdS 2017), workshop: Sprachwissenschaft, Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 27–29 September 2017. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Changes affecting relative clauses in Late Modern English and equative complementisers as relativisers. 6th International Conference on Late Modern English (LMEC 6): Internal and External Factors in Linguistic Stability and Language Change, Uppsala, Uppsala University, 17–19 August 2017. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Doubling in relative clauses and the status of relative particles in German dialects (and beyond). Syntax–Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 18 July 2017. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Non-degree equatives and reanalysis. 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH13), Budapest, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 29–30 June 2017. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Clause typing, verb movement, and non-canonical matrix word orders. Lund–Potsdam–Budapest Linguistics Colloquium, Lund, University of Lund, 15–16 June 2017. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Syntactic features and clause typing in Middle English polar questions. The Tenth International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 10), Stavanger, University of Stavanger, 31 May – 2 June 2017. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2017) Clause typing in main clauses and V1 conditionals in Germanic. 39th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2017), workshop: Non-canonical Verb Positioning in Main Clauses, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 8–10 March 2017. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Equative elements in comparative constructions and in relative clauses in the history of German and English. Equative Constructions, Cologne, Universität zu Köln, 15 December 2016 (invited talk). [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Doubly Filled COMP in Czech and Slovenian interrogatives. 12th European Conference on the Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-12), Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8–10 December 2016. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Equative elements and relative clauses. Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 24 November 2016. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Doubly Filled COMP und polare Fragen im Westgermanischen. SaRDiS 2016: Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 4–5 November 2016. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) The syntactic category of comparative complements cross-linguistically. Generative Grammatik des Südens 2016 (GGS 42), Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, 20–22 October 2016. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Variation in the grammaticalisation of polar operators in West Germanic. Potsdam Summer School in Historical Linguistics 2016: Word Order Variation and Change: Diachronic Insights into Germanic Diversity, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 7–9 July 2016. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Doubly Filled COMP in embedded polar interrogatives. Budapest–Potsdam–Lund Linguistics Colloquium, Budapest, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 16–17 June 2016. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Doubling in the CP in West-Germanic and the Doubly Filled COMP Filter. Syntax–Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 10 April 2016. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) A feature-based approach to Doubly Filled Comp effects. GLOW 2016 – 39th Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 5–8 April 2016. [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Complementisers as markers of negative polarity in German comparatives. 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2016), workshop: The Grammatical Realization of Polarity. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches, Konstanz, Universität Konstanz, 24–26 February 2016. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Equatives, comparatives, and polarity in Slavic. 11th European Conference on the Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-11), Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 2–4 December 2015. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) German dialects and an anti-cartographic approach to the CP-domain. SaRDiS 2015: Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax, Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, 6–7 November 2015. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Syntactic features, overtness, and functional left peripheries. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 20 October 2015. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Ambiguity and the internal structure of comparative complements in Greek. 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 12), Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 16–19 September 2015. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Categories in the CP-domain. Categories in Grammar – Criteria and Limitations, Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 2–4 July 2015. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Towards a cross-linguistic typology of marking polarity in embedded degree clauses. Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC), Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 18–20 June 2015. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Categories, features and overtness in the CP-periphery. Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 16 June 2015. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Degree semantics, polarity, and the grammaticalisation of comparative operators into complementisers. 17th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS17), Reykjavík, University of Iceland, 29–31 May 2015. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia & Éva Dékány (2015) Cyclic changes in Hungarian relative clauses. 17th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS17), Reykjavík, University of Iceland, 29–31 May 2015. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2015) Structural ambiguity and case assignment in Hungarian clausal and phrasal comparatives. 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH12), Leiden, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 22–23 May 2015. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Case-assignment in elliptical comparatives. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 2 December 2014. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Information structure, functional left peripheries, and the history of a Hungarian interrogative marker. 16th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS16), Budapest, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 3–5 July 2014. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Comparative Deletion and comparative clause formation cross-linguistically. Third Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCoS 3), Cambridge, University of Cambridge, 8–10 May 2014. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Optional ellipsis in comparatives. Budapest Phonology Circle and Linguistics Discussion Group (BuPhoC), Budapest, Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, 2 April 2014. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Comparative Deletion and the Overtness Requirement. Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1 April 2014. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Diachronic evidence and the relation between interrogative markers and focus. Linguistic Evidence 2014, Tübingen, Universität Tübingen, 13–15 February 2014. [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2014) Deletion, operators, and comparative clause formation cross-linguistically. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 7 January 2014. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Information structure and clausal comparatives in Czech and Polish. 10th European Conference on the Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-10), Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, 5–7 December 2013. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Comparative Deletion in Germanic. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 28 (CGSW 28), Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, 4–5 October 2013. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Identity and Comparative Deletion. Identity in Ellipsis Conference, Leiden, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 20–21 September 2013. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) More on ellipsis in English comparatives (and elsewhere). PhD-Day of the SFB-632, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 13 September 2013. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Operators in comparative and parenthetical clauses. PhD Day of the SFB-632, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 17 May 2013. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Extended projections of adjectives and Comparative Deletion. 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (25-SCL), workshop: Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives, Reykjavík, University of Iceland, 13–15 May 2013. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Hungarian embedded interrogatives from a diachronic perspective. 3. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (3. STaPs), Heidelberg, Anglistisches Seminar der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 5–6 April 2013. [link] [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Parenthesis and comparative operator deletion. 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS 2013), workshop: Parenthesis and Ellipsis: Cross-linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 12–15 March 2013. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Reanalyse in den Komparativsätzen des Ungarischen. Diachronen Teestunde, Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 6 February 2013. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Comparative operator deletion and the functionally extended AP. Syntax Colloquium, Potsdam, Universität Potsdam, 22 January 2013. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2012) The diachronic system of the left periphery of subordinate clauses in Hungarian. Second Central European Conference in Linguistics for postgraduate Students (CECIL’S 2), Piliscsaba, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Department of Theoretical Linguistics, 24–25 August 2012. [link] [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2012) The relative cycle in Hungarian declaratives. 14th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS14), Lisbon, University of Lisbon, 4–6 July 2012. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2012) Attributive Comparative Deletion as VP-ellipsis. Dynamik der Sprache(n) und der Disziplinen: 21. Internationale GeSuS-Linguistiktage, Budapest, Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS) – Eötvös Loránd University, Germanistisches Institut, 7–9 June 2012. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2012) Arguments of adjectives in degree expressions. Debrecen Workshop on Argument Structure (WAS), Debrecen, University of Debrecen, 25–27 May 2012. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2012) On the diachronic development of a Hungarian declarative complementiser. Synchrony and Diachrony: Variation and Change in Language History, Oxford, Worcester College, University of Oxford, 16–17 March 2012. [link] [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2011) Reducing Attributive Comparative Deletion. 4th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA4), Budapest, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1–3 September 2011. [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2011) Reanalysis in Hungarian comparative subclauses. 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH10), Lund, Centre of Languages and Literature, Lund University – Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 25–28 August 2011. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2011) The history of Hungarian complex complementisers. 15. LIPP-Symposium „Sprachwandel”, Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 13–15 July 2011. [link] [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia & Gergely Kántor (2010) Elliptical comparatives in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. Budapest Phonology Circle and Linguistics Discussion Group (BuPhoC), Budapest, Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, 29 September 2010. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia & Gergely Kántor (2010) Elliptical comparatives in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. 11th International Conference for Fenno-Ugric Studies (CIFU11), workshop: The Syntax of Finno-Ugric Languages and Universal Grammar, Piliscsaba, Department of Fenno-Ugric Linguistics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 9–14 August 2010. [link] [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2009) On the parametric variation of deletion in comparatives. Budapest Phonology Circle and Linguistics Discussion Group (BuPhoC), Budapest, Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, 2 December 2009. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2009) On the parametric variation of deletion in comparatives. Moscow Syntax and Semantics (MOSS), Moscow, Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 9–11 October 2009. [handout] [poster]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) Intertextuality, shared language, and the many transformations of Cain. 21st Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), session: The language of thematics, Vienna, Universität Wien, 21–27 July 2016. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2016) The verse novel and Don Juan as the vehicle of satire. 21st Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), session: Language – The essence of world literature, Vienna, Universität Wien, 21–27 July 2016. [link] [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2013) Comparative approach, genre history and verse novels. 20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), session: Comparable and Incomparable Literary Objects?, Paris, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 18–24 July 2013. [handout] [slides]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2012) Frye reading Byron. Northrop Frye 100: A Danubian Perspective, Budapest, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church – Eötvös Loránd University, 7–8 September 2012. [handout]
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia (2011) The reader’s pilgrimage: Narration and textual levels in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. 10th HUSSE Conference, Piliscsaba, Hungarian Society for the Study of English – Institute of English and American Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 27–29 January 2011. [handout]