Winter Term 2020-21

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

• November 3: [tba]
• November 10: Olga Kellert (Göttingen) - Semantic and Syntactic Change of Free Choice Items in Romance. A case study of cualquiera in Argentinian Spanish and n'importe quoi in French (find the slides of the presentation here)
• November 17: Bernat Bardagil (Ghent University) - Deriving sameness indexicality in Mỹky
• November 24: Paula Fenger (UConn / Leipzig) - Coming to the party late: On the timing and limitations of word building
• December 1: Keny Chatain (MIT) - Cumulativity from homogeneity
• December 8: Mariia Privizentseva (Leipzig) - Eligibility at PF: nominal ellipsis and concord in Moksha Mordvin
• December 15: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Göttingen)
• December 22: Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) - Deriving Pro Drop in a Non-Paradigmatic Approach
• January 12: Zahra Mirazzi (Mass Amherst) - Indefinites: An Argument for Skolemization with world variables
• January 19: Feras Saeed
• January 26: Sascha Alexeyenko (Göttingen) & Andreas Blümel (Göttingen) - On the relation between extraction and binding, and its consequences for successive cyclicity
• February 2: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) - Plurals as higher-order scalar predicates: Unifying cumulativity and non-maximality
• February 9: Seid Tvica (Göttingen)
• February 16: Sumrah Arshad (Göttingen)