Summer Term 2021

Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)

Unless announced otherwise, the Oberseminar takes place on Tuesdays, 4–6 (ct).

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Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the meetings will not be held in the usual way but in the form of a video conference. For this the video conference provider Zoom will be used. Detailed information as to how to join the meetings will be shared via the LinG mailing list.

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Talks will be announced regularly via the LinG mailing list and on this website (see below).

This is a preliminary schedule that will be extended, and possibly altered, in the weeks to come.

April 13: NO MEETING

April 20: Thomas McFadden (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin) & Sandhya Sundaresan (Göttingen) -Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure building vs. structure-enrichment

April 27: Zahra Mirrazi (UMass, Amherst) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) - A non-lexical approach to NEG-RAISING

May 4: Ekaterina Vostrikova (Russian Academy of Sciences/Göttingen) - Conditional analysis for clausal exceptives

May 11: NO MEETING

May 18: Svetlana Berikashvili (Göttingen/Tbilisi) - Ergative case in Georgian

May 25: NO MEETING

June 1: NO MEETING

June 8: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Göttingen) - Narrow scope de re and generalization X: aspect and different evaluation indices for verbs and nouns

June 15: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) & Viola Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Belief states as ordered sets of worlds: Evidence from embedded counterfactuals

June 22: Seid Tvica (Göttingen) - On pro-drop

June 29: George Markopoulos (University of the Aegean) & Anthi Revithiadou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) - Gradience in post-lexical phonology (joint meeting with the linguistics seminar)

July 6: Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) & Akitaka Yamada (Osaka University) - On the syntax of honorificity with focus on Japanese

July 13: Natasha Thalluri (Göttingen) - The implications of Type Economy for the semantics of comparatives

Term Coordinator:
Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email)

General Coordinator:
Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)