presentations
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (excluding published presentations)
1990
Gildea, Spike. 1990. A historical explanation for ergative case-marking in the Cariban language family. University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee 19th Annual Symposium
Gildea, Spike. 1990. Analisis funcional y tipológica en lingüística, con el ejemplo de cláusulas relativas en Panare. Departamento de Lingüística, Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
1991
Gildea, Spike. 1991. From object nominalization to subject focus construction in Panare. Summer Meeting of SSILA, Santa Cruz, CA.
1992
Gildea, Spike. 1992. Evidence for reanalysis in the Makushi (Cariban) verbal system. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1993
Gildea, Spike. 1993. Syntactic and semantic explanations for the Cariban split ergative. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, CA.
Gildea, Spike. 1993. A reconstrução dos prefixos posesíveis pessoais na família Karibe. Associação Brasileira da Antropologia, Belém, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1993. On the Evolution of the Counter-Universal Cariban Split Ergatives: The Exception Helps Explain the Rule. Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gildea, Spike. 1993. Sintaxe funcional/tipológica. 3 hour introduction, as part of the Mini-curso em linguística e linguística indígena na Semana do Indio, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1993. Evolução dos sistemas de marcação de caso: uma hipótese diacrônica para as línguas Karibe. Setor de Lingüística, Departmento de of Antropologia, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1993. A evolução de nominatividade em duas línguas Karibe: Panare e Kuikúru. Setor de Lingüística, Departmento de of Antropologia, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1994
Gildea, Spike. 1994. A evolução da ergatividade nas línguas Karibe do norte do Pará. Ninth Annual Encounter of Asociação Nacional dos Pesquisadores de Línguas e Lingüística, Caxumbú, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Towards a new classification of the Cariban languages of northern Brazil. International Congress of Americanists, Stockholm, Sweden.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Preocupações epistomológicas na coleta e análise de dados: lingüística moderna. Seminário do Departamento de Ciências Humanas (Department of Human Sciences Colloquium), Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Gramática comparativa como meio de entender análise sincrônica: o prefixo w- e sistemas ativos-estativos em línguas Karibe. Presented at the Colloquium of Área de Lingüística, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. O sistema de acento rítmico na língua Kaxuyâna. Setor de Lingüística, Departmento de of Antropologia, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. A teoría de acento rítmico, com o exemplo das línguas Karibe. Departmento de Lingüística, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Métodos para distinguir relações grammaticais em pesquisa de campo. Special three-hour session for the course Estrutura de Línguas Indígenas, Departmento de Lingüística, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Acento rítmico em Kaxuyâna e a teoría de acento rítmico de Bruce Hayes. Museu Antropológico, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Relações gramaticais: a interação de descrição, teoria, e pesquisa de campo. Museu Antropológico, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. O sistema de acento rítmico e apagamento vocálico na língua Kaxuyâna. Seminârio de Pos-Graduação, Departmento de Lingüística, Línguas Clássicas e Vernacular, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Línguas em perigo de extinção: o problema e propostas para ajudá-las. Seminário do Departamento de Ciências Humanas (Department of Human Sciences Colloquium), Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.
1995
Gildea, Spike. 1995. The active-stative system in Kaxuyana (Cariban). Summer Meeting of SSILA, Albuquerque, NM.
Gildea, Spike. 1995. Functional versus syntactic evidence for reanalysis. Conference on Functional Approaches to Grammar, Albuquerque, NM.
Gildea, Spike. 1995. From biclausal coreference conditions to monoclausal alignment: the evolution of Cariban split ergativity. Invited paper for the Workshop on Diachronic Syntax, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, England.
1997
Gildea, Spike. 1997. Problemas com a reconstrução de “ordem básica” de sujeito, objeto e verbo: mudança de ordem de palavras na família Karíb. Seminário de Línguas Indígenas Amazónicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Gildea, Spike. 1997. Novas ideas sobre a clasificação genética da família Karíb, com enfasis nas línguas do norte do Pará. Seminário do Departamento de Ciências Humanas, Museu Parense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.
1998
Gildea, Spike. 1998. Innovative imperfective and progressive aspects in some Cariban languages. Annual Meeting of SSILA, New York.
Gildea, Spike. 1998. The reconstruction of imperfectives/progressives in Proto-Cariban. The Seventh Workshop on Historical Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh.
1999
Gildea, Spike. 1999. La evolución de paradigmas de concordancia verbal en la familia Karib. Curs de tipologia de les llengües ameríndies, Secció de Lingüística General, Universidad de Barcelona.
Gildea, Spike. 1999. On the autonomy of syntax in a functional approach to grammar. Curs de tipologia de les llengües ameríndies, Secció de Lingüística General, Universidad de Barcelona.
Gildea, Spike. 1999. Lenguas indígenas de Norte América en peligro de extinción. Round Table on endangered languages of the Americas, sponsored by PEN and the Secció de Lingüística General, Universidad de Barcelona.
Gildea, Spike. 1999. Relaciones gramaticales e una introducción a ergatividad. Special seminar, Centro Colombiano de Estudios de Lenguas Aborígenes, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Gildea, Spike. 1999. Explicando ergatividad: Bifurcaciones universales e sus etimologías. Special seminar, Centro Colombiano de Estudios de Lenguas Aborígenes, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2000
Gildea, Spike. 2000. The Innovative Progressive in Akawaio (Cariban). Workshop on Amerindian Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gildea, Spike. 2000. Invited discussant. Rencontre sur le grammaire des langues Tupi-Guarani, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) et Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cayenne, French Giuana.
2001
Gildea, Spike. 2001. Workshop: Tecnologia na pesquisa de campo (Technology in field work). Encontro Internacional de Pesquisadores de Línguas Indígenas, Belem, Brazil.
2002
Gildea, Spike. 2002. An unexpected asymmetry to the evolution of ergativity. Keynote lecture, Workshop on Amerindian Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gildea, Spike. 2002. Ergativity in the northern Cariban languages. Premiere Reunion Internacionale, Ergativite en amazonie, PICS-CNRS. Brasília, Brazil, 4-6 December (plus ms.)
Gildea, Spike. 2002. Invited discussant: Synthèse de la réunion. Premiere Reunion Internacionale, Ergativite en amazonie, PICS-CNRS. Brasília, Brazil, 4-6 December.
Gildea, Spike. 2002. Reconstrução Interna como meio de entender um padrão anomalo: o caso de ergatividade em Trumai. Invited colloquium for the Departamento de Lingüística, Línguas Clásicas, e Vernacular, Universidade de Brasília, 10 December.
2003
Gildea, Spike. 2003. Towards Proto-Carib, Macro-Carib, and longer-range comparisons. Exploring the Linguistic Past: Historical Linguistics in South America. Leusden and Leiden, The Netherlands, 1-7 September.
Gildea, Spike. 2003. Are there universal cognitive motivations for ergativity? Deuxiéme Reunion Internacionale, Ergativite en amazonie, PICS-CNRS. Brasília, Brazil, 28-31 October.
Gildea, Spike. 2003. A Contagem de textos de Givón: A interface entre teoria e método. Keynote lecture, Primero Workshop em Línguas Indígenas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Campinas, Brazil, 19-21 November.
Gildea, Spike. 2003. Givónian Text Counts: The Interface Between Theory and Method. Deuxiéme Reunion Internacionale, Ergativite en amazonie, PICS-CNRS. Brasília, Brazil, 28-31 October.
2004
Gildea, Spike, Sérgio Meira, & Berend Hoff. 2004. Relational Prefixes and e/o ablaut in the Cariban language family. Workshop on Amerindian Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, 30 April-2 May.
Gildea, Spike, Sérgio Meira & Berend Hoff. 2004. Cariban Nominal and Verbal Ablaut: Reconstruction and Implications. 2nd Meeting, Exploring the Linguistic Past: Historical Linguistics in South America. Charlston, Oregon, 4-10 September.(presented again at the 3rd meeting, in August, 2005)
Gildea, Spike. 2004. Attention, topic continuity, and topic persistence: Empirical studies of the functional basis of ergativity in Akawaio. Troixiéme Reunion Internacionale, Ergativite en amazonie, PICS-CNRS. Paris, France, 29 November-5 December.
2005
Gildea, Spike. 2005. Akawaio (Cariban) and typologies of nonverbal predication. Workshop on Amerindian Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, 22-24 April.
Gildea, Spike. 2005. Invited Panelist, Field Methods and Language Endangerment Panel. Workshop on Amerindian Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, 23 April.
Gildea, Spike. 2005. Description, Documentation, and Field Linguistics Training. Language Documentation: Theory, Practice, and Values. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 9-11 July.
Gildea, Spike. 2005. Tense-Aspect-Modality in Akawaio. Working Conference on the Grammar of Cariban Languages. Centre d’Etude des Langues Indigènes d’Amérique, Paris, 5-9 December. First author, with Desrey Fox.
Gildea, Spike. 2005. Nonverbal Predication in Akawaio. Working Conference on the Grammar of Cariban Languages. Centre d’Etude des Langues Indigènes d’Amérique, Paris, 5-9 December.
2006
Gildea, Spike. 2006. "Cognitive construction grammar" e sintaxe histórica: ligando sintaxe e semântica. Keynote lecture for Workshop: Consolidação dos estudos sobre línguas indígenas na UFPa. Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil. May 27.
Gildea, Spike. 2006. The role of subtle cultural oppression in the worldwide loss of minority languages. Keynote lecture, School of Languages Postgraduate Conference, University of Melbourne, August 26.
Gildea, Spike. 2006. Línguas minoritárias e opressão cultural. Invited lecture for the Division of the Humanities, Universidade Federal do Pará, May 31.
Gildea, Spike and Desrey Caesar-Fox. 2006. Clause Linking in Akawaio. Workshop on Clause Linking, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. October, 2006. Clause linking in Akawaio.pdf
2007
Gildea, Spike. 2007. On Nominative-Absolutive as a new alignment type. Keynote lecture, Symposium on Endangered Languages of Amazonia, University of Texas/Austin, February 16-17. First author, with Flávia Castro Alves.
Gildea, Spike. 2007. Cognitive Construction Grammar and Historical Syntax: Explaining the Patchwork Quilt of Main Clause Syntax. Hanyang-Oregon Linguistics Symposium, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 27-28.
Gildea, Spike. 2007. Mudança histórica na marcação de pessoa: de possessivo para nominativo, absolutivo, acusativo e ergativo na família caribe. Invited talk for the Departamento de Letras e Línguas Clássicas at the Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. December 12, 2007.
2008
Dourado, Luciana and Spike Gildea. 2008. Object Relations in Panará (Jê). Syntax of the World’s Languages (3), Berlin, Germany, September 25-28.
2009
Gildea, Spike. 2009. From Participant Nominalization to Main Clause Verb: Three Distinct Outcomes in Three South American Languages. Invited speaker, Linguistics colloquium, UC/Berkeley, March 2.
Gildea, Spike. 2009. Procurando explicação para sincretismo na marcação de pessoa na família caribe: generalizações, construçãoes, e diacronia. Keynote lecture for Congresso Internacional de Estudos Liguisticos e Literarios na Amazonia, UFPa, Belém, April 6-8.
Gildea, Spike. 2009. Debatador, Debate: Preservação de Línguas e Culturas Minoritárias. II CIELLA, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil. Outros Debatedores: Dra. Ana Carla Bruno, Dr. Dennis Moore; Mediadora: Dra. Lucy Seki. April 7
Gildea, Spike and Flávia Castro Álves. 2009. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families. Workshop: Reconstructing Alignment Systems, University of Bergen, Norway, 14-15 May.
Gildea, Spike. 2009. Reconstructing Sources for Hierarchical Alignment in Main Clause Grammar. 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, UC Berkeley, 23-26 July.
Gildea, Spike. 2009. From Clefts to Focus Clauses in Two South American Languages. Hanyang-Oregon Linguistics Symposium, University of Oregon, 12-13 August.
Cáceres, Natalia and Spike Gildea. 2009. Innovative ergative main clause grammar in Ye'kwana (Cariban). Workshop on Ergative Markers. Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique, Université de Paris 7, November 9.
2010
Genetti, Carol and Spike Gildea. 2010. Training at the University Level: From linguistic description to language documentation. Workshop: Documentary Linguistics: Retrospective and Prospective, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD, January 8-9.
Gildea, Spike. 2010. The Givón Text-Counting Method. RHIM Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, March 15.
Gildea, Spike and Sérgio Meira. 2010. Valence Increase in the Cariban family. Amazónicas III: Fonología y sintaxis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, April 19-24.
Gildea, Spike. 2010. Hierarchies and Attention. Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, August 28-29.
Gildea, Spike. 2010. Merger of lineages to create innovative main clauses in the Cariban Family. Workshop: Multiple source constructions in language change, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius University, September 2-5.
Gildea, Spike, Natalia Cáceres, & Racquel Yamada. 2010. Explaining Counter-Universal Tense-Aspect-Based Split Ergativity. Université Lumière Lyon 2, September 9
Gildea, Spike. 2010. From Participant Nominalization to Main Clause Verb: Three Distinct Outcomes in Three South American Languages. CELIA - SEDYL, CNRS Campus, Villejuif, September 10
Gildea, Spike, Natalia Cáceres, and Racquel Yamada. Explaining Counter-Universal Split Ergativity: Cariban Progressive/Imperfective Ergatives. Keynote lecture, Ninth High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, November 4-6.
2011
Gildea, Spike. 2011. Hierarchical agreement and possibilities for Alignment. Keynote lecture for III Congresso Internacional de Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários na Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil, April 20.
Gildea, Spike. 2011. Diachronic pathways that create stance constructions in selected South American languages. Workshop: Stance Marking Across Languages: Typological, Diachronic & Discourse Perspectives, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, July 18-20.
Gildea, Spike and Katharina Haude. 2011. The Origins of the Movima Inverse Alignment: Internal Reconstruction. Workshop Diachronic Syntax, International Congress on Historical Linguistics. Osaka, July 25-29.
Gildea, Spike. 2011. Towards a Diachronic Typology: Participant Nominalizations > Voice/Alignment. Workshop Nominalization Cycle, International Congress on Historical Linguistics. Osaka, July 25-29.
Gildea, Spike. 2011. Defending the category of Hierarchical Alignment: looking for labels for previously unrecognized alignment types. Workshop: Referential hierarchies in alignment typology. 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain, September 8-11.
Guirardello, Raquel & Spike Gildea. 2011. Construction Grammar and Syntactic Reconstruction: Internal reconstruction of main clause grammar in Trumai (isolate). Workshop: Diachronic Construction grammar. 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain, September 8-11.
Gildea, Spike. 2011. Person-marking in the Cariban family: Generalizations, constructions, and diachrony. Seminario de Complejidad sintáctica, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, November 17-19.
2012
Gildea, Spike. 2012. The NP in Cariban: from apposition to a real phrase structure. Amazónicas 4: La estructura de las lenguas amazónicas: fonología y sintaxis. Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Peru, Lima, Peru, April 24-28.
Gildea, Spike & Fernando Zúñiga. 2012. Referential Hierarchies: A new look at some typological and historical patterns. EuroBABEL Final Conference, Leiden, Holland, 23-26 August.
Gildea, Spike. 2012. Exaptation in construction reanalysis: Demonstrative pronouns become markers of stance and tense. 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, 29 August-1 September.
Gildea, Spike. 2012. The evolution of valence categories in the Cariban family. Seminario de Complejidad sintáctica, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, November 12-13.
2013
Gildea, Spike. 2013. Reflexive causative > passive in English and Cariban. Keynote address, Symposium About Language and Society – Austin (SALSA), University of Texas at Austin, 12-13 April.
Gildea, Spike. 2013. Historical changes in part of speech categories. Keynote talk, Workshop on Amerindian Languages (WAIL), University of California, Santa Barbara, 26-28 April.
Gildea, Spike. 2013. Motivated versus unmotivated pathways in the evolution of main clause alignment patterns. 10th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. 15-18 August, 2013.
Gildea, Spike. 2013. Diachronic Alignment Typology: Explaining split ergativity as the outcome(s) of the motivated evolution of grammar. Plenary Talk, Language Sciences in the 21st Century: The interdisciplinary challenge. 3-4 October, 2013.
2014
Zahir, Zalmai & Spike Gildea. 2014. An analysis of split alignment in two Coast Salish languages. Workshop on Amerindian Languages (WAIL), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2-3 May.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Rethinking the ‘split ergativity’ phenomenon. Symposium on South American Indigenous Languages. Radboud University Nijmegen, 2 May.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban. Amazônicas V, Belém, Brazil, 26-30 May.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Diachronic Typology of Passive in the Cariban Family. Workshop: Voice systems in diachrony: a comparative perspective. University of Pavia, Italy, 11 September.
Cáceres, Natalia & Spike Gildea. 2014. Patient Nominalization > Passive in Panare and Ye’kwana (Cariban). Workshop: Voice systems in diachrony: a comparative perspective. University of Pavia, Italy, 11 September.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Increasing morphological complexity without contact: Verbs in the Cariban family. Workshop: The diachronic stability of complex verbal morphology. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 11-14 September.
Gildea, Spike & Sérgio Meira. 2014. Modern Increases in morphological complexity: Verbs in the Cariban family. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 11-14 September.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Working with speakers: Comparative and grammatical elicitation, experimental stimuli, orthographies and texts. Laboratoire SeDyL (Structure et Dynamique des Langues), Paris, France, 1 October.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. How Could a Language Lose a Robust Noun-Verb Distinction? Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 27 October.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Growth of Morphological Complexity: Verbs in the Cariban Family. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi & Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil, 31 October.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Diachronic Alignment Typology: Explaining Split Ergativity as the Evolution of Grammar. Plenary talk, Le Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage fête ses 20 ans, Journée Scientifique sur Le temps de la langue. Université Lumière Lyon2, Lyon, France, 13 December.
Gildea, Spike. 2014. Rethinking the Typology of “Split Ergativity”: The Contribution of Diachronic Alignment Typology. Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 16 December.
2015
Gildea, Spike. 2015. Diachronic Typology of Passive in the Cariban Family. Invited talk, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 17 February.
Gildea, Spike. 2015. Grammaticalization Patterns in the Cariban Family. Areal Patterns of Grammaticalization. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 12-14 March.
Gildea, Spike. 2015. The Patchwork Quilt of Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax. Weekly Research Seminar of CRLAO, Paris, France, 25 March.
Gildea, Spike. 2015. 15 years later: Current Perspectives on the Venezuelan Branch Hypothesis. Working Conference on Venezuelan Cariban Languages. ASLAN, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France, 11-15 May.
Gildea, Spike. 2015. Historical Change in Person-Marking: The Nominative / Accusative / Absolutive / Ergative prefixes in Northern Cariban. International Workshop: Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages. Collegium de Lyon and Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, Lyon, France, 28-30 May.
Gildea, Spike. 2015. The puzzle of reconstructing argument structure in nonverbal predication constructions in the Cariban family. Case, Argument Structure and Syntactic Reconstruction, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 11-13 June.
Gildea, Spike & Géraldine Walther. 2015. Information load determines optionality in Cariban. Annual Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1-3 August, 2015.
Gildea, Spike. 2015. Person Clitics and Prefixes in the Cariban family. 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2-5 September.
2016
Gildea, Spike & Sérgio Meira. 2016. A Comparative survey of Verbal Negation in the Cariban Family. Simposio de Sintaxis: La negación en lenguas amazónicas, Amazónicas VI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia, 23-27 May, 2016.
Meira, Cáceres & Spike Gildea. 2016. Historical changes in rhythmic stress in the Cariban family: Loss of iambic rhythm in Bakairi, Panare, Yawarana, and Akawaio. Simposio de fonología: Fonología histórica y cambios sonoros en lenguas amazónicas, Amazónicas VI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia, 23-27 May, 2016.
Ferreira Alves, Ana Carolina, Sérgio Meira, & Spike Gildea. 2016. The Creation of a Fortis-Lenis Alternation in Akawaio, Bakairi and Arara (Cariban). Simposio de fonología: Fonología histórica y cambios sonoros en lenguas amazónicas, Amazónicas VI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia, 23-27 May, 2016.
Gildea, Spike, Natalia Cáceres, Sérgio Meira and Racquel-Maria Sapién. 2016. Antipassive and semantic classes of verbs in the Cariban family. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, 31 August-2 September.
Gildea, Spike. 2016. Historical changes in subject properties: Towards a diachronic typology of Subject. Keynote Address, Forty Years after Keenan 1976. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 7-9 September.