DOM in Old Armenian and putative Iranian parallels
Conference paper, Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft: Language contact and morphosyntax in ancient Indo-European languages, Würzburg
Talks and presentations
Late Latin Relative Clauses: A Corpus-Linguistic Approach
Conference paper, ICLaVE 13, Lausanne
The Armenian future tense(s): a diachronic and typological approach
Invited talk, ISW Colloquium, Bern
Enabling Open Access Book Publishing for Scholarly Societies
Panel discussion, Annual Conference of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, Manchester
The Comparative Method: Assumptions, Issues, and Solutions
Conference paper, 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (WS The Comparative Method is not enough: Innovating historical linguistic methodology), Santiago de Chile
Morphosyntactic parallels between Ancient Armenian and Hurro-Urartian: Contact or coincidence?
Keynote talk, Caucasian linguistics: recent advances and emerging topics, Lyon
When more is less: historical linguistics and the commentaries on the Armenian τέχνη γραμματική
Conference paper, “Grammatization” and the Transmission of Grammatical Knowledge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Naples
Linguistic identity politics in West Middle Iranian
Workshop paper, Second Swiss Workshop on Sociolinguistics, Language Contacts and Historical Linguistics in the Ancient World, Basel
Hypoanalysis and aspectual diversification: the Armenian future in diachrony
Conference paper, 16th General Conference of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, Geneva
Case stacking in Classical Armenian – An areal phenomenon?
Workshop paper, The diachrony of flagging – Cas et adpositions en diachronie, Paris
The subgrouping question: Albanian, Illyrian, Paleo-Balkanic
Seminar paper, Comparative Philology Seminar, Oxford
Démontrer et critiquer: Deux exemples de l’intégration de la recherche en linguistique et pédagogie à l’enseignement
Seminar paper, L’enseignement des sciences du langage : lieu d’élaboration et de médiation de la recherche ?, Lausanne
Keeping up with the Joneses: Agreement marking and case stacking in Classical Armenian
Seminar paper, Oxford Historical Syntax Seminar, Oxford
Decline and Fall: the end of Parthian at the “tongues” of the Armenians
Invited talk, guest lecture, Harvard University
The Armenian Legacy of Dionysios Thrax Byzantine Commentaries and the Rationalisation of the Absurd
Conference paper, Armenian Scholars in Byzantium and Byzantine Scholarship in Armenian (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Colloquium), Washington DC
Modal uses of the imperfect in Classical Armenian
Workshop paper, Workshop on Imperfective Modalities in the Caucasus and Beyond, Paris
Quasi-Suffixaufnahme in Classical Armenian
Conference paper, 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Heidelberg
Cas double en arménien classique
Seminar paper, Rencontres de linguistique et des sciences du langage, Lausanne
Messing with your Morphosyntax: Evidence from Greek–Coptic & Iranian–Armenian contact (with Victoria B. Fendel)
Workshop paper, Multilingualism and structural change: insights from past histories and present realities, Lausanne
Hypoanalysis and aspectual diversification: the Armenian future in diachrony
Conference paper, Futures of the Past: The Diachrony of Future Constructions across Languages, Düsseldorf
Iranian, Armenian, and contact-induced syntactic change: a status quaestionis
Workshop paper, First Swiss Workshop on Sociolinguistics, Language Contacts and Historical Linguistics in the Ancient World, Zurich
Die Langlebigkeit von Mückentötolin: DDR-Humor in sprachdiachronischer Perspektive
Conference paper, 12e Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Lausanne
Origin and aspect of the converb in Classical Armenian
Conference paper, DiaCon 2022: Towards a diachronic typology of converbs, Verona
Contextualising Ancient Language Teaching: the Case of Classical Armenian
Conference paper, 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag (WS Language Pedagogy of Modern and Ancient Languages of Asia), Berlin
Typology, Language Contact, and Corpus Languages: a Unifying Approach
Conference paper, 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (WS The Typology of Contact-Induced Changes in Morphosyntax), Oxford
Relatively Late – Relative Clause Syntax in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum
Conference paper, Quid est «qui»? Relative clauses from Proto-Italic to Proto-Romance, Lausanne
ի սկզբանէ էր բանն – Antoine Meillet et la linguistique arménienne
Workshop paper, Journée d’études consacrée à Antoine Meillet, Lausanne
Be, become or remain: The grammaticalisation of the copulative perfect in Classical Armenian
Conference paper, The Lexicon-Grammar Interface in the Synchrony and Diachrony of Armenian, Würzburg
The Bodleian’s Armenian Manuscripts: Preserving the Past for the Future
Invited talk, 33rd Bodleian Founder’s Day, Oxford
Rhotics in Armenian and Parthian: evidence from loanwords
Conference paper, R-atics 7, Lausanne
The Past and Present of the Armenian Future
Conference paper, 15th General Conference of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, Halle an der Saale (online)
The Rise and Fall of Converbs in Classical Armenian
Conference paper, Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective workshop, Prague (online)
Contact in the Past: How Contact has Shaped Language in Society
Invited talk, The Philological Society, online
Armenian Manuscripts and the Digital Age
Conference paper, Teaching the Codex III: Decentring the Codex, Oxford
Dating Armenian sources: the linguistic evidence in Movsēs Xorenac‘i
Workshop paper, New Research in Ancient Armenia, Geneva
An Uncomfortable Compromise: Armenian and the τέχνη γραμματική
Conference paper, Armenia & Byzantium: Perspectives on Cultural and Political Relations, Oxford
The first ‘death’ of Parthian
Conference paper, 8th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, Yerevan
Syntactical Parallels between Classical Armenian and West Middle Iranian
Workshop paper, New Research in Ancient Armenia, Geneva
Alignment change and changing alignments: the Armenian perfect and its Iranian model
Conference paper, Variation and Contact in the Ancient Indo-European Languages, Oxford
սաթեմարգարէոքէր, ապագիտէր …: The Modal Use of the Armenian Imperfect and its Indo-European Parallels
Conference paper, 14th General Conference of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, Oxford
Imperfective Modalities in Classical Armenian: the Case of the irrealis
Workshop paper, Historical Linguistics of the Caucasus, Workshop on Imperfective Modalities in Caucasian Languages (IMMOCAL), Paris
The (Ir-)relevance of Typological Constraints in Language Contact
Conference paper, 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Naples
Determining Types of Historical Language Contact: a 5th-Century Case Study
Conference paper, HiSoN 2016 Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change, University of Helsinki
Metatypy in Iranian – two cases against a typological constraint in language contact
Seminar paper, TypoUlm, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
What’s in a word? Dating Vrt‘anēs’ K‘ert‘oł’s Յաղագս Պատկերամարտից
Workshop paper, Workshop on the ‘Treatise Concerning the Iconoclasts’ by Vrt‘anēs K‘ert‘oł (7th c.), Oxford
Translating Attraction: Free Relative Clauses in Armenian; Relative Attraction and the ezāfe-Construction in Old Iranian‽
Workshop paper, “Insufficient strength to defend its case”: Case attraction and related phenomena, Wrocław
Language Shift and Emblematicity in 5th-Century Armenia
Conference paper, 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden
Case Attraction and NP-linking in Old Iranian
Conference paper, 6th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, Tbilisi
Verbal Adjectives in PIE *-lo-: Issues in Armenian Historical Morphology and Syntax
Conference paper, 26th UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles
The Classical Armenian past participle: historical morphology and language contact
Conference paper, 13th General Conference of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, Matenadaran, Yerevan
Borrowed Time: Iranian Superstratum Influence on the Armenian Transitive Perfect?!
Conference paper, 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, The Queen’s College, Oxford
How Greek is the Armenian Bible? – A case study in relative clause syntax
Seminar paper, Armenian Studies Seminar, Oxford