Holger Diessel and Karsten Schmidtke-Bode. 2012. Pre- and postnominal relative clauses: A cross-linguistic investigation of their structure and diachronic development, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt. December 2012. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel and Karsten Schmidtke-Bode. 2012. Clause and constituent order in complex sentences: Processing or diachronic inheritance? University of Manchester, Manchester. November 2012. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel and Karsten Schmidtke-Bode. 2012. Complex sentences: clause order, syntactic structure, and grammaticalization. Max-Plank-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig. August 2012. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2012. Usage-based construction grammar, Universität Leipzig, June 2012. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2012. Cross-linguistic asymmetries in the structure and function of pre- and postposed subordinate clauses, Universität Freiburg, FRIAS, Workshop on Left/Right-Asymmetries in Conversational Language. May 2012. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel and Karsten Schmidtke-Bode. 2011. Linear and syntactic structure in complementation systems, Workshop on Clausal Complement Clauses in Eurasian Languages, Universität Mainz, November 2011. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2011. What’s in a rule? The emergence of linguistic productivity in language acquisition, Universität Basel, September 2011. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel, Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, and Katja Hetterle. 2011. Pre- and postnominal relative clauses: Syntactic structure and diachronic evolution, Universität Freiburg, FRIAS, May 25. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2011. Frequency and the lexical specific nature of grammar. Workshop on The Future of Linguistics, Barcelona, January 24-26, 2011. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2010. Frequency effects in usage, acquisition, and change. University of Erfurt, December 2010. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel, Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, and Katja Hetterle. 2010. Competing motivations for the linear structuring of complex sentences. Workshop on Competing Motivations, MPI Leipzig, November 2010.
Holger Diessel and Katja Hetterle. 2010. The structure and use of causal clauses - Converging evidence from linguistic typology and discourse analysis. Fourth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL-10).
Holger Diessel, Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, and Katja Hetterle. 2010. Linearization and syntactic structure in complex sentences, The Syntax of the World’s Languages IV, Lyon, September 2010.
Holger Diessel. 2009. The emergence of syntactic productivity. On the role of frequency and similarity in the development of children’s relative clauses, LMU München, Linguistics Colloquium, December 3, 2009. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2009. Spatial deixis and joint attention. Workshop on Grammar, Space and Cognition, Universität Freiburg, FRIAS, November 5-7, 2009. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2009. The development of complex grammatical constructions in early child language. University of Pavia, October 9, 2009. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2009. Demonstratives, joint attention, and emergent grammar. Summer school on embodied language games and construction grammar, Cortona, September 2, 2009. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2009. Relativsatzkonstruktionen im Erstspracherwerb. Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Workshop on 'Sprachgebrauch und Grammatik. Universität Essen, April 24, 2009. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel and Katja Hetterle. 2009. Causal clauses in crosslinguistic perspective. Workshop on 'Causality in Discourse and Cognition. University of Uetrecht, January 14-16, 2009. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2008. The linear structuring of complex sentences: Converging evidence from linguistic typology and corpus linguistics. Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL-08). University of Leipzig, September 25-27. [Plenary speaker]
Holger Diessel. 2008. Rethinking the lexicon-grammar continuum. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4. University of Leuven, July 16-20, 2008. [Plenary speaker]
Holger Diessel. 2008. The emergence of linguistic complexity: A construction-based analysis of the acquisition of relative clauses. The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language. Rice University, March 27-29, 2008. [Invited talk]
Holger Diessel. 2007. The animacy hierarchy and the acquisition of relative clauses. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Krakow (Poland).
Holger Diessel. 2007. Cross-linguistic asymmetries in the positioning of subordinate clauses. Workshop on 'Linguistic Universals and Language Variation', University of Hamburg, Hamburg. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2007. Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammatical structure. Workshop on 'Vocalization, Communication, Immitation, and Deixis', Grenoble (France). [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2006. Frequency effects in grammar and language use. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Lexikografie, Valenz- und Kollokationsforschung. Universität Erlangen, Erlangen. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2006. Causal and conditional constructions. Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Munich.
Holger Diessel. 2005. Grammatik und Sprachgebrauch. Antrittsvorlesung, Universität Jena, Jena.
Holger Diessel und Silke Brandt. 2005. The acquisition of German relative clauses. Workshop on 'Construction Grammar'. Universität of Jena, Jena.
Holger Diessel. 2005. A usage-based approach to grammatical development. Workshop on 'Dynamic Semiotics and Emergent Grammar'. European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2005. The filler-gap hypothesis and the acquisition of German relative clauses. International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Berlin.
Holger Diessel. 2005. The positional patterns of subordinate clauses in crosslinguistic perspective. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Seoul (South Korea).
Holger Diessel. 2005. Particle placement in early child language: A multifactorial analysis. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Seoul (South Korea).
Holger Diessel. 2005. The acquisition of relative clauses in English and German: A comparative analysis. Workshop on 'the Typology, Acquisition and Processing of Relative Clauses', Max-Plank-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2004. Cognitive motivations for the ordering of main and subordinate clauses. Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics. Hamburg.
Holger Diessel. 2004. The relationship between demonstratives and interrogatives. A typological study. Workshop on ‘Questions’, Max-Plank-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig (Germany). [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2004. Konstruktionen im Erstspracherwerb. Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Bremen. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2003. A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses. International Workshop on ‘Patterns and Rules’, Cognitive Science Department, Universität Osnabrück. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2003. Konkurrierende Motivationen für die Stellung von Adverbialsätzen im Englischen. Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Osnabrück. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2003. The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy and the acquisition of relative clauses. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. La Rioja (Spain).
Holger Diessel. 2003. The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy and the acquisition of relative clauses. Fünfundzwanzigste Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. München.
Holger Diessel. 2003. The positional patterns of subordinate clauses in crosslinguistic perspective. Department of Linguistics, University of Pavia (Italy). [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel. 2002. A construction-based approach to the acquisition of complex sentences. Second International Conference on Construction Grammar. Helsinki (Finland).
Holger Diessel. 2002. Sources of grammaticalization: The development of grammatical markers from lexical expressions and demonstratives. Second International Conference on Grammaticalization. Amsterdam.
Holger Diessel. 2001. The acquisition of subordinate clauses. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Santa Barbara (USA).
Holger Diessel. 2001. Demonstratives and interrogatives: An investigation of their form, meaning, and use. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Santa Barbara (USA).
Holger Diessel. 2001. The positional patterns of subordinate clauses in crosslinguistic perspective. Fourth Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Santa Barbara (USA).
Holger Diessel. 2001. Demonstratives: Form, function, and use. International Symposium on Deictic Systems and Quantification in Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia. Izhevsk (Russia).
Holger Diessel. 2001. Demonstratives and the conceptualization of space. A cross-linguistic investigation. Dreiundzwanzigste Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Leipzig.
Holger Diessel. 2000. How complex are early complex sentences? On the acquisition of relative and complement clauses in English. Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Potsdam. [Invited Talk]
Holger Diessel & Michael Tomasello. 2000. The emergence of relative constructions in early child speech. The Fifth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Santa Barbara (USA).
Holger Diessel. 2000. The relationship between demonstratives and interrogatives. A typological study. Zweiundzwanzigste Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Marburg (Germany).
Holger Diessel. 2000. The morphosyntactic properties of demonstratives in crosslinguistic perspective. International Workshop on the Languages in the Mediterranean Area: Typology and Convergence. Tirrenia (Italy).
Holger Diessel & Michael Tomasello. 1999. How complex are early complex sentences? The acquisition of finite complement clauses. Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1999. The ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses in OV and VO languages. Third Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Amsterdam.
Holger Diessel. 1999. Competing motivations for the order of main and adverbial clauses in English. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Stockholm.
Holger Diessel & Michael Tomasello. 1999. The syntactic and conceptual structure of early complement clauses. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Stockholm.
Holger Diessel & Michael Tomasello. 1999. Why complement clauses do not include a that-complementizer in early child language. The Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1998. Discourse-deictics in Oneida narratives. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1997. The diachronic reanalysis of demonstratives in crosslinguistic perspective. The Thirty-Third Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1997. Predicative demonstratives. The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1996. German wenn: A study in cognitive semantics. Germanic Linguistics: The Second Annual Conference. Madison (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1996. Processing factors of pre- and postposed adverbial clauses. The Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1995. V-first constructions in German. International Cognitive Linguistics Association. Albuquerque (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1995. Polysemy and monosemy: Analysing multifunctional conjunctions in English subordinate clauses. Toronto/SUNY Buffalo Joint Student Conference. Buffalo (USA).
Holger Diessel. 1992. Konditionale wenn-Sätze und verwandte Nebensätze. Vierzehnte Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Bremen.