Reading Groups

Summer Term 2019

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.

April 16: START-UP MEETING
April 23: Andreas Blümel (Göttingen) — C-Hiding
April 30: Alexandre Cremers (LLC Amsterdam) — Ignorance inferences and roundness effects with modified numerals
May 7: Marten Stelling (Göttingen) — Why Zeijlstra is wrong | Stefan Keine (USC) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) — Morphology of extraction: Reappraising vP phasehood
May 14: Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) — Categories: theory and typology (joint session with the Department of General Linguistics; Venue: SPW 0.108)
May 21: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) — Higher-order DP quantification and the monotonicity puzzle
May 28: Viola Schmitt (Vienna) — Cumulativity across intensional interveners
June 4: John Coates (Göttingen) — Commitment Space semantics and Yes/No question intonation contours: A report on an empirical study of Catalan, and a preview of possible common ground with English
June 11: Patrick D. Elliott (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) — Movement as a reflex of higher-order structure building | Yimei Xiang (Rutgers) — Higher-order readings of WH-questions
June 18: Rob Pasternak (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) — A fuss-free semantics for copy composition
June 25: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Göttingen) — Presupposition triggering and redundancy
July 2: Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) — The complex beauty of boundary adverbials: in years and until
July 9: Magdalena Roszkowski (Vienna) — The interpretation of ‘distributive’ elements
July 16: Giuseppe Samo (Beijing Language and Culture University) — V2 languages do not challenge Cartography, if the analysis follows Cartographic guidelines

Term Coordinator:
Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email)

General Coordinator:
Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)>

Colloquium in Slavic Linguistics

Unless announced otherwise, the Colloquium in Slavic Linguistics takes place on Wednesdays, 6–8 (ct), in Seminar für Slavische Philologie Philologie (SSP), Room 2.117 (Humboldtallee 19/21). The current program and further information can be accessed via the Colloquium in Slavic Linguistics website.

General Linguistics Colloquium

Unless announced otherwise, the General Linguistics Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays, 4–6 (ct), in Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar (SPW), Room 0.114 (Käte-Hamburgfer-Weg 3). The current program and further information can be accessed via the General Linguistics website.