Summer Term 2017

Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax-Semantics)

• April 18: Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) - Principles of projection
• April 25: Paula Menéndez-Benito (Göttingen) - Epistemic indefinites, again
• May 2: Daniele Panizza (Göttingen) - Building a Minimalist parser
• May 9: Gurujegan Murugesan (Leipzig) & Louise Raynaud (Göttingen) - Investigating the Anaphor-Agreement Effect:
  Icelandic ECM constructions and Agreement Switch in Kutchi-Gujarati
• May 16: Olga Kellert (Göttingen) - Free Choice Items in Old Italian. A case study of wh-unque 'wh-ever'
• May 23: Basima Mahmood (Göttingen) - Language change and (ir)regularization
• May 30: Winfried Lechner (Athens / ZAS Berlin) - A calculus for reconstruction and anti-reconstruction
• June 13: Jovana Gajić (Göttingen) - Negative coordination as a (cross-linguistic) misfit of Negative Concord
• June 20: Paula Menéndez-Benito (Göttingen) - Reasoning and evidence: Sources and direction
• June 27: Despina Oikonomou (ZAS Berlin) - Negation in Greek imperatives
  
• July 4: Ryan Bochnak (Constance) - Sequence of tense effects in Washo, an optional tense language
• July 11: Fabienne Martin (Stuttgart) - A finer-grained typology of perfective operators