2022

Invited talk: Aspects of the syntax of negation in South African Sign Language. Department of Linguistics’ Seminar. 10th August. Ghana University (Virtual).

Invited talk: Languages of South Africa. Festival de las Lenguas 2022: Celebrando las lenguas africanas. 17th May. Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (Virtual).

2021

with Amy Palmer & Anne Baker. Developing a sentence repetition test for the evaluation of deaf children’s use of South African Sign Language. 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, 7th – 11th June, Leiden, The Netherlands (Virtual).

with Susan Njeyiyana. Lexical variation and change in South African Sign Language:  A case study of a Western Cape school-lect. 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, 7th – 11th June, Leiden, The Netherlands (Virtual).

with Andries van Niekerk & Anne Baker. Studying Lexical Variation in Sign Languages: the Case of South African Sign Language. 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, 7th – 11th June, Leiden, The Netherlands (Virtual).

2020

with Amy Palmer & Anne Baker. Testing L2M2 acquisition of South African Sign Language:  Developing a Sentence Repetition Task. Virtual poster presentation at Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, 13th – 15th March, 2020, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

with Susan Njeyiyana. Lexical variation and change in South African Sign Language: A case study of a Western Cape School-lect. Virtual poster presentation at Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, 13th – 15th March, 2020, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

2019

Negation and Question-Answer clauses in sign language. SAMWOP-8, 28th – 30th November, UKZN, Durban

with Engela de Villiers. Towards a Minimalist Analysis of Imperatives in Afrikaans. SAMWOP-8, 28th – 30th November, UKZN, Durban

Negative Constructions in South African Sign Language. Multilingualism in the individual and society: Learning, globalization and social justice. INTPART II Launch, 5th – 7th March 2019, STIAS, Stellenbosch

2018

with Anne Baker & Susan Njeyiyana. Development of blended learning tutorials and assessment mechanisms for the acquisition of South African Sign Language. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Stellenbosch University, 29-31 October 2018

with Amy Palmer & Anne Baker. Testing L2M2 acquisition of South African Sign Language:  Developing a Sentence Repetition Task. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Stellenbosch University, 29-31 October 2018

with Anne Baker. Negative Constructions in South African Sign Language: Question-Answer clauses. Paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Conference, 11-14 September 2018, University of Sheffield, UK

Invariant tags and follow-ups in Afrikaans. Paper presented at International Congress of Linguists (ICL20), 2 – 6 July 2018, Cape Town

with Anne Baker. Negative Constructions in South African Sign Language. Paper presented at International Congress of Linguists (ICL20), 2 – 6 July 2018, Cape Town

with Anne Baker. Using a Sentence Repetition Task with L2M2 learners of South African Sign Language. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition (ICSLA), 27 – 29 June 2018, Istanbul, Turkey

Taal in ‘n digitale wêreld: die invloed van SMS-taal. Stellenbosch Sentraal Studie- en Besprekingsgroep. Kerksentrum, NG Gemeente Stellenbosch-Sentraal, Stellenbosch. 14th   February 2018.

2017

Negative constructions in South African Sign Language: Question-Answer clauses. Paper presented at SAMWOP-6, 30 November – 2 December 2017, Stellenbosch University

with Ana Gauché. The pragmatic marker shame in South African English. Paper presented at SAMWOP-6, 30 November – 2 December 2017, Stellenbosch University

with Sarah Nakijoba. Reversibility of pragmatic marker sequences in monolingual and bilingual combinations: A case of Luganda and Luganda-English. Paper presented at CLASA 2017, 25-29 June 2017, Rhodes University, Grahamstown

with Andries van Niekerk & Anne Baker. Exploring Historical influences in South African Sign Language. Paper presented at CLASA 2017, 25-29 June 2017, Rhodes University, Grahamstown

2016

with Michelle White & Roelien Bastiaanse. The comprehension of negation in the L1 acquisition of Afrikaans. Paper presented at the Afrikaans Grammar Workshop, 25th – 26th August, 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa.

with Dirkie Ebersohn, Andries van Niekerk & Anne Baker. Charting Lexical Variety in SASL. Paper presented at the Joint LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Conference, 2nd – 7th July 2016, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

2015

with JJ Meyer & Johan Oosthuizen. A  nominal  shell  analysis  of   the  restrictive  relative  clause  construction  in  Afrikaans. Paper presented at the 4th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP-4), 27th – 30th November, 2015 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

with Erin Pretorius & Menan du Plessis. Khoe serial verbs and Germanic particle verbs: Linking variation to spellout. Paper presented at the 4th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP-4), 27th – 30th November, 2015 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

with Emmanuel Radzilani. Examining teachers’ language practices in two bilingual primary schools in Limpopo. Paper presented at the Joint LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Conference, 24th – 26th June, 2015, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa.

with Johan Oosthuizen. Bits of grammar in the context of ENterpretation. Paper presented at the Joint LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Conference, 24th – 26th June, 2015, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa.

with Emmanuel Radzilani. Examining teachers’ language practices in two bilingual primary schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Paper presented at Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, 13th – 15th March, 2015, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

with Medadi Ssentanda and Frenette Southwood. Mother tongue education in rural Uganda: Discrepancies between de jure and de facto language-in-education policy. Paper presented at Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, 13th – 15th March, 2015, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

2013

with Johan Oosthuizen. On some grammatical properties of conjunctions and nominal expressions. Paper presented at the 2nd Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP-2), 30th October – 1st November, 2013, North-West University, Vaal-Triangle Campus, South Africa.

with Johan Oosthuizen. Two issues in the derivation of coordinate constructions. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA/SAALT Conference, 1st – 4th July, 2013 Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

with Melanie Fairhurst. The Pragmatic Markers Anyway, Okay and Shame: A Comparative Study of Two African Varieties of English. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA/SAALT Conference, 1st – 4th July, 2013, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

2012

An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of (Multiple) Negative Indefinites in Afrikaans. CLT seminar. Centre de Lingüística Teòrica. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. 19th October, 2012.

with Joanine Nel. Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA/SALT Conference, 25th – 29th June, 2012, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

with Henriette de Swart. An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of (Multiple) Negative Indefinites in Afrikaans. Paper presented at the 34th German Linguistic Society Annual Conference (DGfS), 6th – 9th March 2012, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

2011

The use of “g’n” (“no”) in newspaper headlines. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA Conference, 26th – 29th June 2011, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

with Simona Conradie & Carla Ellis. The acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 German by learners with Afrikaans, English or Italian as their L1. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA Conference, 26th – 29th June 2011, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

with Alfred Thutloa. Language shift from Afrikaans to English: Is Afrikaans declining in the communities that gave birth to it? Paper presented at the Mobility Language Literacy Conference, 18th – 21st January 2011, Cape Town, South Africa.

2010

An Optimality Theoretic analysis of multiple negative indefinites in Afrikaans. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA Conference, 26th – 29th September 2010, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa.

2009

Negative indefinites in Afrikaans: the case of g’n and niks. Paper presented at the Joint SAALA/LSSA Conference, 28th – 30th September 2009, CPUT, Cape Town, South Africa.

An analysis of multiple negative indefinites in Afrikaans. Paper presented at the Fourth Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, 5th June 2009, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Issues in Afrikaans negation: an investigation into the nature and distribution of negative indefinites in Afrikaans. Paper presented at Uiltjesdagen, May 2009, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

2008

Issues in Afrikaans negation: an investigation into the nature and distribution of “g’n niks”. Paper presented at the Sixth Semantics in the Netherlands Day (SiN VI), 10th October 2008, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Multiple n-words in Afrikaans. Paper presented at Linguistics Society of South Africa (LSSA) Conference, January 2008, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2007

Negative Spread in Afrikaans. Paper presented at Linguistics Society of South Africa (LSSA) Conference, July 2007, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Negation and Negative Concord in Afrikaans. Paper presented at Dynamic patterns of linguistic diversity workshop, March 2007, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

2006

Negative Concord in Afrikaans. Paper presented at Linguistics Society of South Africa (LSSA) Conference, July 2006, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

2005

Language Contact in Computer-Mediated Communication: Afrikaans-English Code Switching on IRC. Paper presented at Linguistics Society of South Africa (LSSA) Conference, July 2005, Dikhololo, Pretoria, South Africa.

“Wat sê jy?” The linguistic characteristics of Afrikaans on IRC. Paper presented at 7th Annual Conference on WWW Applications (ZA-WWW2005), August 2005, Cape Town International Conference Centre, South Africa.