Invited talks
''Slavic Intensifiers aż/čak", Kolloquium Slawistische Linguistik, Institut für Slawistik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 02/07/2018
''Focus association of ‘most’ and ‘only’ in a Visual Verification Task", Oberseminar general & theoretical linguistics, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 05/02/2018
''Proportional and Superlative ‘Most’ in Visual Verification Tasks", Kick-off workshop for "Cognitive Semantics of Quantities" project run by Dr. Jakub Szymanik, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, 28-29/09/2017
"Focus effects on quantifier domains revealed in sentence processing", Pre-conference workshop on ''Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics'' associated with 12th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages Berlin, 8-10/12/2016
''Quantity superlatives in Slavic'', Kick-off workshop for "Most and more: Quantity superlatives across language" project run by Dr. Elizabeth Coppock, University of Gothenburg, 15-16/09/2016
"Focus association in sentence processing", SemPrE(Semantics and Pragmatics Exchange)-Kolloquium Düsseldorf, 20/08/2016
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 25/11/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Experimental Linguistics Talks Utrecht, 09/11/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Linguistischen Arbeitskreis Köln, 04/11/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft Allgemeine und Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz, 10/07/2015
"Superlatives and focus association - a self-paced reading study", Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting, University of Southern California, 05/05/2015
"Interpreting Superlatives", Semantics and Pragmatics Colloquium in Nijmegen, 22/04/2015
"Comprehension of sentences with quantifiers: quantifier semantics and types of inference", Tilburg University, Netherlands, 1/23/2014
"Definiteness in Superlatives – Relative Uniqueness", Utrecht University, Netherlands, 12/17/2013
"Superlative ambiguities and focus", Tübingen University, Germany, 6/18/2013 [Handout]
"Comparatives, Superlatives and Focus Association”, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 6/12/2013 [ Lecture Handout, Crash Course Handout]
"A scalar opposite of scalar only in Slavic", Invited talk at University of Chicago, USA, 2/21/2013 [Handout]
"Quantifiers and visual cognition: the processing of proportional and superlative most in Bulgarian and Polish”, Ling 849 Seminar in Psychosemantics, University of Maryland, USA, 2/20/2013
"The morphosyntax of Polish (un)conditionals", Invited talk at GIST-5 Workshop: Generalizing relative strategies, Ghent, Belgium, 3/22–23/2012
"Compositional derivation of Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions", invited talk at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. 12/14/2011 [Handout]
Conference Presentations (Refereed Abstracts)
"World knowledge and the absolute-relative distinction in adjectives in offline and online processing" [poster] (Tomaszewicz und Schumacher), XPRAG 2019, Edinburgh, 19-21/06/2019.
"A syntactic account of world-knowledge effects on the interpretations of gradable adjectives" [talk], (Tomaszewicz & Schumacher), A0: The Adjective as a Lexical Category workshop, Bled, Slovenia 11-13/10/2018.
"Focus structures and the processing of discourse congruence" [poster], (Tomaszewicz & Schumacher), 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, 30/03-01/04/2017.
"Reading times with complement coercion in Polish: the role of selectional restrictions" [talk], (Spalek & Tomaszewicz), 21st Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 04-06/09/2016.
"Decomposition and processing of negative adjectival comparatives" [poster], (Tucker, Tomaszewicz & Wellwood), 22nd AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) conference, Spain, Bilbao, 1-3/09/2016
"Coercion in Polish versus English: On processing of complex lexical content" [talk], (Spalek & Tomaszewicz), Referential Semantics Workshop at ESSLLI 2016, Bolzano-Bozen, 15-26/08/2016.
"Dissociating the scalarity and additivity of EVEN – the case of "čak" and "čak i" in BCS" [talk], (Jasinskaja & Tomaszewicz), Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 25, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 13-15/05/2016.
"Obligatory and optional focus association in sentence processing" [talk], (Tomaszewicz & Pancheva), 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, Florida, 03–05/03/2016.
"Focus association revealed in reading times" (Tomaszewicz, Błaszczak & Pancheva) [talk], Workshop on the Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification (LCQ 2015), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 16–17/10/2015.
"Focus association and the scope of superlative -est" [talk] (Tomaszewicz & Pancheva), The 20th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Tübingen, Germany, 09-12/09/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times" [poster] (Tomaszewicz, Błaszczak & Pancheva), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Malta, 03-05/09/2015.
"Relative readings of superlatives: scope or focus?" [poster], Semantics and Linguistic Theory 25, Stanford University, 15-17/05/2015.
"Focus association in superlatives and the semantics of -est", 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12/18-20/2013
"Degree relative clauses and superlatives in Polish”, FASL 22 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 5/3-5/2013 [Handout]
"Comparison of degrees or of individuals? Focus effects in superlatives in Polish", (poster) TRAIT Workshop "How categorical are categories?”, Wrocław, Poland, 1/7-9/2013
"Quantifiers and visual cognition: the processing of proportional and superlative most in Bulgarian and Polish", Logic & Cognition Workshop at ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland, 8/13-17/2012 [Handout]
"A scalar opposite of scalar only", WCCFL30, UC Santa Cruz, 4/13-15/2012 [Handout]
"Cross-linguistic differences in superlative movement out of nominal phrases" (with Roumyana Pancheva), WCCFL30, UC Santa Cruz, 4/13-15/2012 [Handout]
"A family of exclusives in Polish", GLOW 35 Association with focus workshop, University of Potsdam, Germany, 03/31/2012
"Semantics and visual cognition: the processing of Bulgarian and Polish majority quantifiers", LSA 2012 Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, 01/5-8/2012 [Handout]
"Aż/chak – the scalar opposite of scalar only", FDSL 9 - Formal Description of Slavic Languages , Universität Göttingen, Germany, 12/7-9/2011 [Handout]
"Focus sensitive intensifiers in Slavic aż and chak in contrast to even and only", FASL 20 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, MIT Cambridge, USA, 05/13-15/2011
“The Syntactic Position of Slavic by and its Effect on Main Clause Phenomena”, GIST-2 Conference: Main Clause Phenomena. Ghent, Belgium, 09/29 – 10/1/2010
“Verification Strategies for Two Majority Quantifiers in Polish”, The 15th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. 09/9-11/2010
“Semantics Guides Visual Interpretation”, VSSoL International conference on language, nature, and cognition. Vigo, Spain. 07/16-17/2010
“An Anti-Locality Constraint on Specifiers” (with Roumyana Pancheva), GIST 1 workshop: Antilocality and Snowballing movement. Ghent, Belgium, 06/24-25/2010 [Handout]
“Wh & Wh: Syntactic and Semantic Arguments for Clausal Coordination”, FASL 19 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park. 04/23-25/2010
“Variability in vP-Subject Island Violations” (with Roumyana Pancheva), FASL 19 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park 04/23-25/2010
"Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish" (with Roumyana Pancheva), GLOW 33 Slavic Syntax and Semantics workshop, Wrocław University, Poland. 04/13/2010
"Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish" (with Roumyana Pancheva), 34th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 03/19-21/2010
"Against Spurious Coordination in Multiple Wh-Questions", West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 28, University of Southern California. 02/19-21/2010
"Operator movement in Polish subjunctive clauses". GLiP-6, Generative Linguistics in Poland, Warsaw, Poland. 04/5-6/2008
"Subjunctive Mood in Polish”. FDSL-7, 7th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Leipzig, Germany. 11/29 – 12/01/2007
"Subjunctive Mood in Polish and the Clause Typing Hypothesis”. LingO, 2nd Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Oxford, U.K. 09/21-22/2007
"Subjunctive Complementizers in Polish”. PLM, 38th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland. 08/3-16/2007
"Polish żeby and gdyby as Complex Complementizers”. SLE, 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Joensuu, Finland. 08/29 – 09/1/2007
"The Puzzle of Polish “inflecting” Complementizers”. SLS, 2nd Congress of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Berlin, Germany. 08/22-24/2007
"The morphological structure of subjunctive and conditional “moods” in Polish”, APC4, 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference of the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. 06/1-03/2007
"The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals”. PASE, Polish Association for the Study of English Conference, Puławy, Poland. 04/24-26/2006
"The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals” (poster). Workshop QP structure, Nominalizations, and the role of DP, Saarbrucken, Germany. 12/15-17/2005
''Slavic Intensifiers aż/čak", Kolloquium Slawistische Linguistik, Institut für Slawistik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 02/07/2018
''Focus association of ‘most’ and ‘only’ in a Visual Verification Task", Oberseminar general & theoretical linguistics, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 05/02/2018
''Proportional and Superlative ‘Most’ in Visual Verification Tasks", Kick-off workshop for "Cognitive Semantics of Quantities" project run by Dr. Jakub Szymanik, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, 28-29/09/2017
"Focus effects on quantifier domains revealed in sentence processing", Pre-conference workshop on ''Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics'' associated with 12th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages Berlin, 8-10/12/2016
''Quantity superlatives in Slavic'', Kick-off workshop for "Most and more: Quantity superlatives across language" project run by Dr. Elizabeth Coppock, University of Gothenburg, 15-16/09/2016
"Focus association in sentence processing", SemPrE(Semantics and Pragmatics Exchange)-Kolloquium Düsseldorf, 20/08/2016
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 25/11/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Experimental Linguistics Talks Utrecht, 09/11/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Linguistischen Arbeitskreis Köln, 04/11/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times", Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft Allgemeine und Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz, 10/07/2015
"Superlatives and focus association - a self-paced reading study", Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting, University of Southern California, 05/05/2015
"Interpreting Superlatives", Semantics and Pragmatics Colloquium in Nijmegen, 22/04/2015
"Comprehension of sentences with quantifiers: quantifier semantics and types of inference", Tilburg University, Netherlands, 1/23/2014
"Definiteness in Superlatives – Relative Uniqueness", Utrecht University, Netherlands, 12/17/2013
"Superlative ambiguities and focus", Tübingen University, Germany, 6/18/2013 [Handout]
"Comparatives, Superlatives and Focus Association”, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 6/12/2013 [ Lecture Handout, Crash Course Handout]
"A scalar opposite of scalar only in Slavic", Invited talk at University of Chicago, USA, 2/21/2013 [Handout]
"Quantifiers and visual cognition: the processing of proportional and superlative most in Bulgarian and Polish”, Ling 849 Seminar in Psychosemantics, University of Maryland, USA, 2/20/2013
"The morphosyntax of Polish (un)conditionals", Invited talk at GIST-5 Workshop: Generalizing relative strategies, Ghent, Belgium, 3/22–23/2012
"Compositional derivation of Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions", invited talk at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. 12/14/2011 [Handout]
Conference Presentations (Refereed Abstracts)
"World knowledge and the absolute-relative distinction in adjectives in offline and online processing" [poster] (Tomaszewicz und Schumacher), XPRAG 2019, Edinburgh, 19-21/06/2019.
"A syntactic account of world-knowledge effects on the interpretations of gradable adjectives" [talk], (Tomaszewicz & Schumacher), A0: The Adjective as a Lexical Category workshop, Bled, Slovenia 11-13/10/2018.
"Focus structures and the processing of discourse congruence" [poster], (Tomaszewicz & Schumacher), 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, 30/03-01/04/2017.
"Reading times with complement coercion in Polish: the role of selectional restrictions" [talk], (Spalek & Tomaszewicz), 21st Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 04-06/09/2016.
"Decomposition and processing of negative adjectival comparatives" [poster], (Tucker, Tomaszewicz & Wellwood), 22nd AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) conference, Spain, Bilbao, 1-3/09/2016
"Coercion in Polish versus English: On processing of complex lexical content" [talk], (Spalek & Tomaszewicz), Referential Semantics Workshop at ESSLLI 2016, Bolzano-Bozen, 15-26/08/2016.
"Dissociating the scalarity and additivity of EVEN – the case of "čak" and "čak i" in BCS" [talk], (Jasinskaja & Tomaszewicz), Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 25, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 13-15/05/2016.
"Obligatory and optional focus association in sentence processing" [talk], (Tomaszewicz & Pancheva), 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, Florida, 03–05/03/2016.
"Focus association revealed in reading times" (Tomaszewicz, Błaszczak & Pancheva) [talk], Workshop on the Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification (LCQ 2015), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 16–17/10/2015.
"Focus association and the scope of superlative -est" [talk] (Tomaszewicz & Pancheva), The 20th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Tübingen, Germany, 09-12/09/2015
"Focus association revealed in reading times" [poster] (Tomaszewicz, Błaszczak & Pancheva), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Malta, 03-05/09/2015.
"Relative readings of superlatives: scope or focus?" [poster], Semantics and Linguistic Theory 25, Stanford University, 15-17/05/2015.
"Focus association in superlatives and the semantics of -est", 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12/18-20/2013
"Degree relative clauses and superlatives in Polish”, FASL 22 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 5/3-5/2013 [Handout]
"Comparison of degrees or of individuals? Focus effects in superlatives in Polish", (poster) TRAIT Workshop "How categorical are categories?”, Wrocław, Poland, 1/7-9/2013
"Quantifiers and visual cognition: the processing of proportional and superlative most in Bulgarian and Polish", Logic & Cognition Workshop at ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland, 8/13-17/2012 [Handout]
"A scalar opposite of scalar only", WCCFL30, UC Santa Cruz, 4/13-15/2012 [Handout]
"Cross-linguistic differences in superlative movement out of nominal phrases" (with Roumyana Pancheva), WCCFL30, UC Santa Cruz, 4/13-15/2012 [Handout]
"A family of exclusives in Polish", GLOW 35 Association with focus workshop, University of Potsdam, Germany, 03/31/2012
"Semantics and visual cognition: the processing of Bulgarian and Polish majority quantifiers", LSA 2012 Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, 01/5-8/2012 [Handout]
"Aż/chak – the scalar opposite of scalar only", FDSL 9 - Formal Description of Slavic Languages , Universität Göttingen, Germany, 12/7-9/2011 [Handout]
"Focus sensitive intensifiers in Slavic aż and chak in contrast to even and only", FASL 20 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, MIT Cambridge, USA, 05/13-15/2011
“The Syntactic Position of Slavic by and its Effect on Main Clause Phenomena”, GIST-2 Conference: Main Clause Phenomena. Ghent, Belgium, 09/29 – 10/1/2010
“Verification Strategies for Two Majority Quantifiers in Polish”, The 15th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. 09/9-11/2010
“Semantics Guides Visual Interpretation”, VSSoL International conference on language, nature, and cognition. Vigo, Spain. 07/16-17/2010
“An Anti-Locality Constraint on Specifiers” (with Roumyana Pancheva), GIST 1 workshop: Antilocality and Snowballing movement. Ghent, Belgium, 06/24-25/2010 [Handout]
“Wh & Wh: Syntactic and Semantic Arguments for Clausal Coordination”, FASL 19 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park. 04/23-25/2010
“Variability in vP-Subject Island Violations” (with Roumyana Pancheva), FASL 19 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park 04/23-25/2010
"Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish" (with Roumyana Pancheva), GLOW 33 Slavic Syntax and Semantics workshop, Wrocław University, Poland. 04/13/2010
"Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish" (with Roumyana Pancheva), 34th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 03/19-21/2010
"Against Spurious Coordination in Multiple Wh-Questions", West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 28, University of Southern California. 02/19-21/2010
"Operator movement in Polish subjunctive clauses". GLiP-6, Generative Linguistics in Poland, Warsaw, Poland. 04/5-6/2008
"Subjunctive Mood in Polish”. FDSL-7, 7th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Leipzig, Germany. 11/29 – 12/01/2007
"Subjunctive Mood in Polish and the Clause Typing Hypothesis”. LingO, 2nd Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Oxford, U.K. 09/21-22/2007
"Subjunctive Complementizers in Polish”. PLM, 38th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland. 08/3-16/2007
"Polish żeby and gdyby as Complex Complementizers”. SLE, 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Joensuu, Finland. 08/29 – 09/1/2007
"The Puzzle of Polish “inflecting” Complementizers”. SLS, 2nd Congress of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Berlin, Germany. 08/22-24/2007
"The morphological structure of subjunctive and conditional “moods” in Polish”, APC4, 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference of the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. 06/1-03/2007
"The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals”. PASE, Polish Association for the Study of English Conference, Puławy, Poland. 04/24-26/2006
"The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals” (poster). Workshop QP structure, Nominalizations, and the role of DP, Saarbrucken, Germany. 12/15-17/2005