2012-08-23. On the history of clause-final negation in the Mande languages of the Bani - upper Mouhoun rivers area. Workshop "The history of post-verbal negation in African languages". 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, University of Buea (Buea, Cameroon). [slides]

2011-09-15. Clause-final negative markers in Bambara dialects: a contact-induced evolution. 3rd International Conference on Mande Languages (Paris, France). [slides]

2011-09-14. Deproprial plural and associative in the Bambara of Segu region. 3rd International Conference on Mande Languages (Paris, France). [slides]

2011-07-27. The instability of Eastern Mayan interrogative pronominals: interrogative pronominals as complex constructions. Workshop "Stability & borrowability of interrogative pronominals", 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan). [slides]

2011-07-26. Explaining clause-final negation in northern sub-Saharan Africa. 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan). [slides]

2011-01-29. Designing Manding spoken corpora. Workshop on The Bamana electronic corpus project (Paris, France). [slides]

2010-11-13. Grammaticalization of clause-final negative markers in Bamana dialects. International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification (Brussels, Belgium). [slides]

2010-10-08. Non-selective interrogative pronominals, categorical presuppositional meanings of proper names and propriality. International conference on the ‘Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective’, University of Regensburg (Regensburg, Germany). [slides]

2010-09-25. Clause-final negation as a Macro-Sudan areal feature. Syntax of the World’s Languages IV (Lyon, France). [slides]

2009-11-04. Person-number agreement on quotative complementizers in Mande. CGCT meeting, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

2009-09-09. Quotative markers in Western Mande. Societas Linguistica Europaea 42nd Annual Meeting, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal). [slides]

2009-08-18. Inflected quotative complementizers in Mande. World Congress of African Linguistics 6, Universität Köln (Cologne, Germany).

2009-07-25. Non-human animates and non-selective interrogative pronominals. 8th biennial meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, USA). [poster]

2009-06-13. Person-number agreement with complementizers in Mande. Morphology of the World’s Languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany). [slides]

2008-10-04. Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology. Language typology and Egyptian-Coptic linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany). [slides]

2008-09-16. La dérivation déoblique: une nouvelle catégorie de réduction de la valence. 2nd Conference on Mande Language and Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). [slides]

2008-04-19. A new “voice” from Africa: deobliquative. 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia (Athens, USA).

2007-09-26. Deobliquative: a new valence-decreasing category. 7th biennial meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Ministère de la Recherche (Paris, France). [slides]

2007-05-10. Lack of differentiation between ‘who?’ and ‘what?’ in Bantu. International conference Bantu languages: analysis, description and theory, Göteborgs Universitet (Göteborg, Sweden).

2006-03-30. Rare and nonexistent interrogative pro-word types: interrogative pro-verbs & Co. Rara & Rarissima – Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany). [slides, slides+comments]

2006-02-24. The identity of WHO? and WHAT? in South America: an areal feature?. Workshop on Current issues in areal typology at the 28th annual meeting of the German Association for Linguistics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), Universität Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany).

2005-07-22. Explaining the lack of formal differentiation between WHO? and WHAT? and between WHO? and WHERE?. 6th Biennial meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (Padang, Indonesia).

2005-07-05. Antigrammaticalization or antimorphologization? An example from Tura. New Reflections on grammaticalization 3, University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain).

2004-08-10. (with Johan van der Auwera) On interrogative pro-verbs. Workshop on the Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions, ESSLLI 16, Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy, France).

2004-05-02. (with Johan van der Auwera) Nominalization as a question formation strategy in Tucanoan. 7th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California at Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, USA).

2004-04-09. (with Johan van der Auwera) Deverbal nominals as questions. International Conference on Deverbal Nouns, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3 (Lille, France).

2004-03-29. Exceptional morphology of the Tura numerals (an Eastern Mande language). Workshop on Numerals in the World’s languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany).

2003-10-17. La détermination des limites des mots: l'exemple de l'orthographe toura. Colloque sur les langues mandé de Côte d’Ivoire, Institut de Linguistique Appliquée de l’Université de Cocody (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire).

2003-10-16. Du statut et du semantisme des verbes en -LA en toura et dans les autres langues mande-sud. Colloque sur les langues mandé de Côte d’Ivoire, Institut de Linguistique Appliquée de l’Université de Cocody (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire).

2003-05-23. Valence locative des verbes de déplacement spatial en toura (langue mandé-est, Côte d’Ivoire). “Trajectoire”: Journées d’Études CERLITYP, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Lyon, France).

2002-06-19. Kinship terminology of Tura (South Mande). Mande Studies Association conference. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Leiden, the Netherlands).

2001-05-17. Linguistic geography of Tura (a Mande language of Ivory Coast) [in Russian]. 13th Annual International Conference on African Studies in memory of D.A. Olderogge (St. Petersburg, Russia).

2000-05-12. Towards a definition of word in Tura and some implications for the practical orthography. Round-table on Lexicology and comparison in Mande languages with special emphasis on Eastern Mande, Universität Zürich (Zurich, Germany).

1999-05-07. The operator tùn in Bamana and the conditions of its usage [in Russian]. Annual International Conference on African Studies in memory of D.A. Olderogge (St. Petersburg, Russia).

1998-05-06. A preliminary analysis of the aspecto-temporal semantics of the Bamana predicative markers [in Russian]. Annual International Conference on African Studies in memory of D.A. Olderogge (St. Petersburg, Russia).