Oberseminar English Linguistics
Summer Term 2026
Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)
Unless announced otherwise, the Oberseminar takes place on:
Tuesdays, 4-6 PM CT.
Talks will be announced regularly via the LinG mailing list and on this website (see below).
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Meetings of the Oberseminar English Linguistics this term will be offered as a hybrid event: Some talks will be held Online and some On-site. The Oberseminar can be joined online or in person at
SEP 0.244 (Medienraum). The video conference provider Zoom will be used. Detailed information as to how to join the meetings online will be shared via the LinG mailing list.
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This is a preliminary schedule that will be extended, and possibly altered, in the weeks to come.
April 14 (Tuesday 4-6 PM CT): Interim Meeting
Format: On-site
Note: No scheduled course session
Note: No scheduled course session
Format: On-site
Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra
Talk: Semantic vs morpho-syntactic categories: resolving a paradox
Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra
Talk: Semantic vs morpho-syntactic categories: resolving a paradox
Format: On-site
Speaker: Natasha Korotkova
Talk: Natural classes within attitude predicates: English 'come-to-know' verbs
Speaker: Natasha Korotkova
Talk: Natural classes within attitude predicates: English 'come-to-know' verbs
Note: No scheduled talk, sessions resume next week
Format: On-site
Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra, Zahra Mirrazi, Huilei Wang, Setayesh Dashti
Talk:TBA
Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra, Zahra Mirrazi, Huilei Wang, Setayesh Dashti
Talk:TBA
Term Coordinator: Petr Kusliy (Email)
General Coordinator: Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)