Prof. Dr. Eva Berlage

Organization of the 4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Formulaic Language (FLaRN)
23-26 March 2010, Paderborn
in cooperation with PD Dr. Häcker and Dr. Dahlmann

(with John Payne): Genitive Variation in English
ISLE 2, Boston (USA), June 2011

• Berlage, Eva. Forthc. Composite Predicates in English: Processes of Specialization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Berlage, Eva. (2014). Noun Phrase Complexity in English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Payne, John und Eva Berlage (eds.) (2014). Special Issue on the Genitive Variation in English. English Language and Linguistics 18.2.

• Payne, John und Eva Berlage (2014). “Genitive variation: the niche role of the oblique genitive”. English Language and Linguistics 18.2: 331-360.
• Payne, John und Eva Berlage (2014). “Introduction: new dimensions in genitive variation”. English Language and Linguistics 18.2: 211-214.
• Payne, John, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Barbara Scholz und Eva Berlage (2013). "Anaphoric one and its implications." Language 89: 794-829.
• Berlage, Eva (2012). “At the interface of grammaticalisation and lexicalisation: the case of take prisoner”. English Language and Linguistics 16.1: 35 - 55.
• Berlage, Eva (2010). “The lexicalisation of predicative complements in English”. Transactions of the Philological Society 108 (1): 53-67.

• Berlage, Eva and John Payne. In preparation. “The effect of semantic relations on the genitive variation”.
• Berlage, Eva (2014). “Opposite developments in composite predicate constructions: the case of take advantage of and make use of”. In: Marianne Hundt (ed.), Late Modern English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 207-223.
• Berlage, Eva (2009). “Prepositions and postpositions”. In: Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.). One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 130-148.
• Berlage, Eva (2004) „Aller guten Dinge sind zwei oder Warum Briten appeal against the decision und Amerikaner appeal the decision sagen”. Paderborner Universitätszeitschrift 2004/2005: 30-31.

• October 2023: "The semantic-syntactic specialization of composite predicates in English: the cases of make answer to, make mention of and take notice of". University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)
• January 2014: "Noun phrase complexity in English". Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
• December 2008: "Changing complements in English". University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)
• January 2008: "Postpositions and the shortening of NPs". Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
• October 2007: "May I take the audience prisoner(s)? Sprachwandel und Variation am Beispiel der Kollokation take s.o. prisoner(s)". Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück
• October 2007: "And then he took them prisoner(s): the history and present behaviour of an emergent multi-word predicate". University of Uppsala, Uppsala (Sweden)

• July 2023: "Make mention of and take notice of: emergent negative polarity items?". ICEHL 22, Sheffield (UK)
• May 2017: "The semantic-syntactic specialization of composite predicate constructions". Paper presented at the ICAME 38, Prague (Czech Republic)
• May 2017: together with John Payne. "Semantic relations in the genitive alternation". Paper presented at the ICAME 38, Prague (Czech Republic)
• May 2015: "From light verb constructions to negative polarity items: the cases of take notice of and make mention of". Paper presented at the ICAME 36, Trier
• July 2014: "Composite predicate constructions: lexicalisation or delexicalisation?" Paper presented at the ICEHL18, Leuven (Belgium).
• May 2013: together with John Payne/ Geoffrey K. Pullum/ Barbara C. Scholz†. "A corpus-based analysis of anaphoric one and its implications". Paper presented at the ICAME 34, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
• August 2012: "Syntactic change in light verb constructions of the types take advantage of and make use of" Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Zurich (Switzerland)
• June 2011: together with John Payne. "Genitive variation: the role of the oblique genitive". Paper presented at the ISLE 2, Boston (USA).
• June 2011: together with John Payne. "The effect of semantic relations on genitive variation: relations hierarchy". Paper presented at the ISLE 2, Boston (USA).
• May 2010: "NP-complexity in English". Paper presented at the ICAME 31, Giessen
• May 2010: together with John Payne. "The effect of semantic relations on genitive variation". Paper presented at the ICAME 31, Giessen
• March 2010: "Formulaic predicative complement constructions". Paper presented at the 4th International FLaRN Conference: Interdisciplinary Conference on Formulaic Language, Paderborn
• March 2010: "The lexicalisation of predicative complements in English". Paper presented at the conference '11. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium' (NLK), Hamburg
• May 2009: together with John Payne. "Pro-nominal one and relational nouns". Paper presented at the ICAME 30, Lancaster (UK)
• October 2008: "Is more wordy more complex? How variation is affected by NP-length and NP-structure". Paper presented at the ISLE1, Freiburg
• May 2008: "As far as going to Ascona is concerned/goes/ø: Discourse factors and the variable absence of the verb phrase in topic-restricting as far as constructions". Paper presented at the ICAME 29, Ascona (Switzerland)
• April 2008: "Aspects of denominalization in English". Paper presented at the 'Workshop on the English NP', Sheffield (UK)
• March 2008: „Komplexitätsunterschiede und reduzierte Nominalphrasen in der Umgebung von Adpositionen". Paper presented at the conference '9. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium' (NLK), Bielefeld
• July 2007: "Truncated noun phrases and the placement of adpositions". Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), Toulouse (France)
• March 2007: "Is more wordy more complex? – Oder warum längere NPs nicht automatisch schwieriger zu verarbeiten sind als kürzere?" Paper presented at the conference '8. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium' (NLK), Göttingen
• October 2006: "Cognitive complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: the loss of the verbal coda in topic-restricting as far as constructions". Paper presented at the conference 'Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface' (ELeGI), Hannover
• August 2006: "And then we took them prisoner(s): The loss of number agreement with object predicatives". Paper Presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Bergamo (Italy)
• March 2006: "And then we took them prisoner(s): Der Verlust der Pluralkongruenz bei Objektprädikativen". Paper presented at the conference '7. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium' (NLK), Bremen
• February 2006: "Cognitive complexity and horror aequi as determinants of grammatical variation: Marked vs. unmarked infinitives following transitive uses of help". Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the DGfS, Bielefeld
• June 2005: "Word-order variation in the case of notwithstanding: Structural complexity as a determinant of grammatical variation". Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), Edinburgh (UK)