LinG Colloquium Series

Summer Term 2021

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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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• April 14: NO MEETING
• April 21: Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) & Klaus Kurki (University of Turku) - When ’we with Anna’ means ’me and Anna’ in Finnish, Fenno-Swedish and other languages (find the handout of the presentation here)
• April 28: Berit Gehrke (Berlin) & Marcin Wągiel (Brno) - Non-conservative readings with percentage quantifiers in Slavic and German
• May 5: Omer Preminger (Maryland) - Natural language without semiosis
• May 12: NO MEETING
• May 19: Richard Breheny (UCL) - What primes what – How priming research can be used to explore theoretical questions about scalar implicatures
• May 26: Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT/Tokyo) - Case and A/A'-movements
• June 2: Paul Portner (Georgetown University) - At-issueness, subjectivity, and the subjunctive
• June 9:NO MEETING
• June 16: Marloes Oomen (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS Paris) - Neg-raising in three sign languages
• June 23: Kai Alter (Newcastle University, University of Cambridge) - The processing of Intonational Phrase boundaries and working memory: Evidence from brain imaging and behaviour
• June 30: Benjamin Spector (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS Paris) - Anaphora without dynamic semantics - A static trivalent semantics for pronouns and indefinites
• July 7: Asia Pietraszko (Rochester) - Cyclic Selection and verbal periphrasis
• July 14: [tba]

Term Coordinator:
Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email)

General Coordinator:
Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)