Tobias Ungerer, PhD

Tobias Ungerer, PhD

Postdoc in Psychology of Language at the University of Toronto

Talks

Upcoming presentations and theme sessions

  1. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2025, July 14–18). Extravagance and creativity through the empirical lens [Theme session]. 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  2. Ungerer, T., Matzinger, T., Pleyer, M., & Hartmann, S. (2025, July 14–18). Extravagance in the lab: How social biases influence the emergence of linguistic innovations [Paper presentation]. 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  3. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2025, August 26–29). Probing deeper into No Equivalence: A usage-based, radically dynamic perspective [Paper presentation]. 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Bordeaux, France.

Invited talks and workshops

  1. Ungerer, T. (2024, April 9). Creative grammar: How speakers comprehend novel argument mappings [Paper presentation]. English Linguistics Circle Research Seminar. University of Santiago de Compostela & University of Vigo, Spain. (slides)
  2. Ungerer, T. (2022, November 23). Construction Grammar and implicit arguments [Paper presentation]. “Topics in Semantics” seminar. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  3. Ungerer, T., & Hartmann, S. (2022, April 18–20). Snowclones on the workbench: Using state-of-the-art corpus methods to study formulaic constructions [Conference workshop]. 1st Projeto PREDICAR Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Conference presentations

  1. Ungerer, T., & de Almeida, R. G. (2024, July 24–27). Context affects the comprehension of implicit arguments: Evidence from the maze task [Poster presentation]. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands. (poster)
  2. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2024, June 18–22). Language, schmanguage: A corpus-based exploration of the semantics of English shm-reduplication [Paper presentation]. 45th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME). Vigo, Spain.
  3. Ungerer, T., Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2024, May 16–18). Sneezing the napkin off the table: Online comprehension of grammatically creative sentences [Poster presentation]. 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). Ann Arbor, MI, USA. (poster)
  4. Ungerer, T., Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2023, August 23–25). Conceptual integration in creative sentences: Evidence from eye-tracking [Paper presentation]. 5th Workshop on Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA). Montreal, Canada.
  5. Ungerer, T., Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2023, August 7–11). Sneezing the napkin off the table: Mechanisms of valency coercion in eye-tracking [Paper presentation]. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Conference (ICLC). Düsseldorf, Germany. (slides)
  6. Ungerer, T., & Hartmann, S. (2023, August 7–11). What is a “taxonomic network”? On the relationship between hierarchies and networks [Paper presentation]. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Conference (ICLC). Düsseldorf, Germany. (slides)
  7. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2023, March 7–10). “Chaos theory, shmaos theory”: Creativity and routine in English shm-reduplication [Paper presentation]. 45th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Cologne, Germany.
  8. de Almeida, R. G., Antal, C., & Ungerer, T. (2022, October 11–14). The authors wrote the paper dry: Contrasting resultative and depictive verb templates [Poster presentation]. 12th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Niagara-on-the-lake, ON, Canada.
  9. Ungerer, T., & Hartmann, S. (2022, September 15–17). Are snowclones the new black? A corpus-based approach to extravagant formulaic patterns [Paper presentation]. 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE). Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  10. Hartmann, S., Neels, J., & Ungerer, T. (2022, August 24–27). A quantum of salience: Reconsidering the role of extravagance in grammaticalization [Paper presentation]. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Bucharest, Romania.
  11. Ungerer, T. (2022, August 22–24). A priming approach to the representation of English argument structure constructions [Paper presentation]. 4th Workshop on Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA). Berlin, Germany. (slides)
  12. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2022, July 27–30). Are snowclones the new normal? Using corpora to study extravagant formulaic patterns [Paper presentation]. 43rd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME). Cambridge, UK.
  13. Ungerer, T. (2022, March 1–4). Constructional families in the lab: Novel experimental approaches to the study of constructional relations [Paper presentation]. 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA). Erfurt, Germany. (slides)
  14. Ungerer, T. (2021, August 18–20). Vertical and horizontal links in constructional networks – two sides of the same coin? [Paper presentation] 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG). Antwerp, Belgium. (slides)
  15. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2021, August 18–20). The mother of all constructions: A corpus-based approach to the productivity of ‘snowclones’ [Paper presentation]. 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG). Antwerp, Belgium.
  16. Ungerer, T. (2021, June 10–12). Probing the grammatical network with structural priming [Paper presentation]. Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference. Edinburgh.
  17. Hartmann, S., & Ungerer, T. (2020, November 25–27). Why pink is the new black and data scientists are the new rock stars: Corpus approaches to the productivity of “snowclones” [Paper presentation]. 8th International Conference Grammar & Corpora (GaC). Kraków, Poland.
  18. Ungerer, T., & Lorson, A. (2020, August 26–September 1). ‘Du sprichst English? So do I’: How German speakers align in their use of Anglicisms [Paper presentation]. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Virtual conference.
  19. Ungerer, T., & Hartmann, S. (2020, July 27–29). Attack of the snowclones. A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns [Paper presentation]. UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 (UKCLC). Birmingham, UK.
  20. Ungerer, T. (2019, August 21–24). Using structural priming to test links between constructions: Priming between caused-motion and resultatives sentences [Paper presentation]. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Leipzig, Germany. (slides)
  21. Ungerer, T. (2019, August 6–11). Using structural priming to test links between constructions: Priming between caused-motion and resultatives sentences [Paper presentation]. 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC). Nishinomiya, Japan. (slides)
  22. Ungerer, T. (2019, June 4–7). The concept of ‘inheritance’ in grammatical theory – What is it and which questions does it raise? [Paper presentation] 25th Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference (LELPGC). Edinburgh, UK.

Research group presentations

  1. Ungerer, T. (2025, April 11). The influence of social biases on linguistic innovation: An artificial language learning approach [Paper presentation]. Cognitive Science of Language colloquium. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
  2. Ungerer, T. (2023, November 10). How to sneeze a napkin off the table: Online processing of grammatically creative sentences [Paper presentation]. Cognitive Science of Language colloquium. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
  3. Ungerer, T. (2021, May 14). Network science methods - a potential toolkit for cognitive linguistics? [Paper presentation] Cognitive Linguistics Research Group. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (slides)
  4. Ungerer, T. (2021, February 10). Structural priming meets Construction Grammar: Using priming to explore networks of constructions [Paper presentation]. Psycholinguistics Coffee research seminar. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (slides)