Conference presentations

Papers presented at Conferences (selection)

  • “On Coptic Grammatical Categories”, Second International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome 1980
  • “Towards a Typ[ology of Coptic Anacolutha”, First Colloquium on Coptic Studies, Cairo 1982
  • “On the Syntax of Proper Names”, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Manchester 1984
  • “On Bohairic Tenses”, Fourth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1988
  • “The Late Egyptian Conjunctive Revisited”,  International Congress of Egyptologists, Turin 1991
  • “Greek Particles in Bohairic”, Fifth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Washington D.C. 1992
  • “Modern Welsh Narrative Syntax”, Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies, Edinburgh 1995
  • “Bohairic Narrative Grammar”, Sixth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Münster 1996
  • “Stability in Pattern-Consituent Sequencing: 4000 Years of Egyptian”, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf 1997
  • “Juncture Features in Literary Modern Welsh: Cohesion” , Eleventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, Cork 1999
  • “On Conversion, Clause Ordination and Related Notions”, Ancient Egyptian, Neo-Semitic, Methods in Linguistics: Workshop in Memory of H.J. Polotsky,  The Israel National Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem 2000
  • “Juncture Features in Shenoutean Coptic”, Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden 2000
  • “Kate Roberts’s Epistolary Grammar”, Twelfth  International Congress of Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth 2003
  • “H. J. Polotsky Structuralist” in “After Polotsky”, Colloquium, Bonn, September 2005
  • “On Converbs in Egyptian and Coptic: a Note” (NACAL 35, San Antonio, March 2007)
  • “A Note on Converbs in Welsh and Irish”, Thirteenth  ICCS, Bonn, July 2007
  • “Reflections on Adnominal, Adverbal, Adnexal – on Clauses in Satellital Status in Coptic”, Egyptian-Coptic Syntax and Language Typology, Leipzig, Max-Planck-Institute, 2-5 October, 2008
  • “From Macrosyntax to Narratology”, 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth (Ireland), July-August 2011
  • “Nominal Predication in Shenoute’s Rhetorical Poetics”, 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 2012
  • “Language Mixture, Contact, Interference, Affinity: Hugo Schuchardt’s Happy Linguistics”, Keynote Address in NACAL 41, New Haven, Yale University, February 2013
  • 2015 NACAL 43 , Georgetown Univ. "The Converb: a Chat in Comparative Syntax"

Papers presented at Shenoute Editorial Colloquia

  • 2006 (Monserrat) – “Anacoluthia”
  • 2007 (Münster) – “ⲉϣϫⲉ Conditionals”
  • 2008 (New Haven) – “The Circumstantial”
  • 2011 (Madrid) – “Nominal Predications”
  • 2012 (Richmond) “Personal Rhetoric”
  • 2013 (Leipzig) “Integration of Greek Elements in Coptic”
  • 2015 (Columbus, Ohio) "Possession and Rhetoricity"