Winter Term 2017–18

Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)

• October 17: Scheduling // Louise Raynaud (Göttingen) – Romance reflexives, past participle agreement and the PCC
• October 24: Moreno Mitrović (Cyprus) – Illogical disjunction
• October 31: NO SESSION (public holiday)
• November 7: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes) – Later than the Matrix temporal construals: Mandarin vs. English
  (join work with Hongyuan Sun)
• November 14: Seid Tvica (Göttingen) – Left-right (a)symmetries and movement in natural languages
• November 21: Clemens Mayr (Göttingen / Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) – How logic affects interrogative embedding: Deriving clausal selection from the semantics
• November 28: Marten Stelling (Göttingen) – Never not a Negative Concord Item
• December 5: Carina Kauf & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) – Explaining the Ambiguity of Past-Under-Past Embeddings// Amsterdam Colloquium practice talks
• December 12: Jovana Gajić (Göttingen) – Focused and unfocused conjunction, their alternatives, and implicatures // Daniele Panizza (Göttingen) – Functional mapping and the greed for computational resources
• December 19: [tba]
• January 9: Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) – Person-Case Interaction: Examining Argument Licensing in Punjabi
• January 16: Viola Schmitt (Vienna) – Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition
• January 23: Jovana Gajić (Göttingen) – Niti – Real negative coordination inside strict Negative Concord?
• January 25 (Thursday, special session): Hadil Karawani (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) – MAY or MIGHT – Strength, duality and social meaning // Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin / HU Berlin) – Indicative and Subjunctive Conditionals as Operations on Commitment Spaces
• January 30: Olga Kellert (Göttingen) – Free Choice Items and Evaluative Reading