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Oberseminar English Linguistics

Winter Term 2022-23


Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)

Unless announced otherwise, the Oberseminar takes place on:
Tuesdays, 4-6 pm ct.


Meetings of the Oberseminar English Linguistics this term will be offered as a hybrid event: Some talks will be held online and some onsite. The Oberseminar can be joined online or in person in SEP 0.247 (Übungsraum: UE140). 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.


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.

*Internal Meeting*
*NO MEETING*
Format: on site
Speaker: Marcin Wągiel (Brno)

Talk: Adjectival quantification over hidden events
*NO MEETING*
Format: on site
Speaker: Aron Hirsch (ZAS Berlin)

Talk: Only as a form-meaning mismatch
*NO MEETING*
*NO MEETING*
Format: onsite
Speaker: Nina Haslinger (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Entailment relations between imprecise expressions
Format: onsite
Speaker: Gurmeet Kaur (University of Göttingen)

Talk: The source of plural agreement with honorific nouns
Format: onsite
Speaker: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (University of Göttingen) & Ekaterina Vostrikova (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Everyone except possibly Ann
*NO MEETING*
Format: onsite
Speaker: Zhao Zeqi (University of Göttingen)

Talk: The puzzles of Mandarin mei-dou co-occurrence
Format: onsite
Speaker: Petr Kusliy (University of Göttingen)

Talk: (Anti-)reconstruction effects in predicate fronting constructions


Term Coordinator: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email), Ekaterina Vostrikova (Email)

General Coordinator: Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)