Reading Groups

Winter Term 2018–19

• Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)
  
  Unless announced otherwise, the Oberseminar takes place on Tuesdays, 4–6 (ct), in Seminar für Englische Philologie (SEP), Room 0.247 (Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3).
  
  This is a preliminary schedule that will be extended, and possibly altered, in the weeks to come.
  
  
  
  • October 16: START-UP MEETING
  • October 23: Frank Sode (Frankfurt) — The German modal sollte in the antecendent of conditionals
  • October 30: Fenna Bergsma (Frankfurt) — Waarmee and met wat in Dutch free relatives
  • November 6: Marten Stelling (Göttingen) — Arapaho Imperatives in Syntax Land
  • November 13: Sophie Moracchini (MIT) — The distribution of evaluativity in subcomparatives
  • November 20: Beste Kamali (Bielefeld) — Dissecting broad focus polar questions in Turkish: Bias and phonological phrasing
    (joint session with the General Linguistics group)
  • November 27: Natasha Korotkova (Konstanz / Tübingen) — The subjective heart of evidentiality
  • December 4: Katharina Hartmann (Frankfurt) — The Conjoint–Disjoint Alternation in Dagbani
  • December 11: Jan Köpping (Frankfurt / Göttingen) — A novel account of Novelty (and a familiar account of Familiarity)
  • December 18: Vera Hohaus (Manchester / Tübingen) — The syntax of embedding and the temporal interpretation of attitude complements
  • January 8: Svetlana Berikashvili (Göttingen)
  • January 15: Zorica Puškar (Berlin)
    (joint session with the Slavic Department)
  • January 22: Daniele Panizza (Göttingen)
  • January 29: Jovana Gajić (Göttingen)

  
  
  Term Coordinators:
  Sascha Alexeyenko (Kontakt)
  Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Kontakt)
  
  General Coordinator:
  Hedde Zeijlstra

• General Linguistics Colloquium
  
  Unless announced otherwise, the General-Linguistics Colloquium regularly takes place on Tuesdays, 4–6 (ct), in the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar (SPW), Room 0.114 (Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3).
  
  
  
  
  • October 16: START-UP MEETING
  • October 23: Georg Höhn (Göttingen) — Demonstrative Unagreement
  • October 30: Götz Keydana (Göttingen) — Language use and non-informant languages
  • November 6: Christian Lehmann (Erfurt) — Univerbierung
  • November 13: Roland Schäfer (Berlin) — Empirie um jeden Preis: Methodische und epistemologische Probleme von Korpusstudien und Experimenten in kognitiv ausgerichteter Linguistik
  • November 20: Beste Kamali (Bielefeld)
    (joint session with the English Linguistics group)
  • November 29: Michale Rießler (Freiburg / Bielefeld) (CAVEAT: Thursday)
  • December 4: Hannes Fellner (Wien) — t.b.a.; Gerd Carling (Lund) — Morphosyntactic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European: Arguments from a Bayesian evolutionary angle
  • December 11: Nina Adam (Göttingen) — Agreement with conjoined phrases: Evidence from coordinated numeral phrases in Czech
  • December 18: Tim Felix Aufderheide (Zürich)
  • January 8: Sarah Eiteljörge (Göttingen) — Multimodal word learning in early childhood
  • January 15: Yidong Yu (Göttingen)
  • January 22: Mira Grubic (Potsdam)
  • January 29: Elliott Lash (Maynooth) — The rise of the pseudo-applicative in Old Irish and non-nominative subject marking