Reading Groups

Winter Term 2019–20

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 22: [tba]
October 29: Carina Kauf & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) – Unifying Pronominal Tense Semantics with Sequence of Tense
November 5: Mojmír Dočekal & Iveta Šafratová (Masaryk University) – *swarms* and degrees -- 3 experiments on Slavic *swarm* constructions
November 12: Amir Anvari (Insitut Jean Nicod, ENS Paris) Veridicality and Indexical Shift in Farsi
November 19: [CANCELLED] Johann Schedlinski (Göttingen) – On the categorial status of that-clauses as verbal arguments
November 26: Fereshteh Modaressi (Leibniz-ZAS) – Anaphoric Potential of Bare Nouns/ Weak definites
December 3: Agata Renans (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – Types of predicates (distributive vs. non-distributive) and theories of exhaustivity
December 10: Sascha Alexeyenko & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) – (Dis)obeying the Head Final Filter
December 17: Seid Tvica (Göttingen)
January 7: Muriel Assmann & Izabela Jordanoska (Wien) – Towards a Theory of Morphosyntactic Focus Marking
January 14: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) – What are we looking for? Disentangling extensionality, specificity and wide-scope individual quantification
Samuel Gewinner (Göttingen) – Noun Gender in Indo-European Languages
January 21: Katrin Schulz (Amsterdam) – How we talk about generalisations: some thoughts about conditionals and generics
January 28: Sumrah Arshad & Daniele Panizza (Göttingen)
Febraury 4: Andreas Haida (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – On the scope of “only" and the semantics of PPs

Term Coordinator:
Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email)

General Coordinator:
Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)