Upcoming Talks

  • Xiaomeng Sun and Martina Wiltschko are presenting a talk Self-talk as a Window into the Intersection of Grammar and Pragmatics: Evidence from Mandarin for the theme session “Grammar and Pragmatics: New Perspectives on Pragmatic Functions of Grammatical Structures” at ÖLT 2026. University of Salzburg. November 20, 2026

Recent talks

  • Beñat Muguruza Aseguinolaza & Garbiñe Bereziartua Etxeberria: ‘Are you man enough?’ Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns. Presentaion at Second International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes. October 8, 2026
  • Martina Wiltschko. How did you get into my head? The linguistics of self-talk and its kin. LUCL Colloquium, Leiden University (September 25, 2026)
  • Irene Buttazzi & Martina Wiltschko: Rethinking the I AM Task: Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis as Tools for Investigating Fluid Identity Across Languages. Presented at Personal Identity through a Language Lense (PILL 2026) University of Lodz (Poland), September 24 2026
  • Xiaomeng Sun: Different Modes of Self-Talk in Mandarin Chinese. Presentation at 13th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics. September 2, 2026
  • Martina Wiltschko: Can I be you? The view from linguistics. Invited talk at the Salzburg Workshop on Inner speech, University of Salzburg. May 22, 2026
  • Xiaomeng Sun: How interactional is self-talk? Evidence from Mandarin sentence-final particles. Poster presentation at the Salzburg Workshop on Inner speech, University of Salzburg. May 21, 2026
  • Nancy Hedberg: The intonation and meaning of self-directed and other-directed wh-questions in English. Talk at the Sound Meaning Workshop, UPF. May 14, 2026.
  • Johannes Heim: Lessons from the prosody of non-assertive speech acts for studying self-talk. Talk at the Sound Meaning Workshop, UPF. May 14, 2026.
  • Valenting Colasanti & Martina Wiltschko: Gesture in self-talk. Talk at Formal Approaches to Language MultiModality, 4-5 December 2025, Trinity College Dublin. 
  • Martina Wiltschko: How dialogical is inner speech? The view from linguistics, Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk, UPF (December 4th 2025)
  • Martina Wiltschko: Linguistic evidence for different modes of self-talk and what it might tell us about inner speech." online talk at the Inner Speech Colloquium. June 26, 2025 
  • Martina Wiltschko: Self-talk as a window into the syntax-pragmatics interface. The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno. (Online event) November 16-17 2024.
  • Martina Wiltschko: The grammar of self-talk: What different modes of talking reveal about language. IIT Delhi, Colloquium. October 18 2024