Summer Ter 2024

Unless announced otherwise, the LinG/RTG2636 Colloquium will take place on:

Wednesdays 4-6 pm (ct)

!!! This semester the colloquium will be an onsite event: only a few talks will take place online and most will be onsite at VG 4.104. Detailed information as to how to join the meetings 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.

Format: online
Speaker: Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Talk: Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language
Format: onsite
Speaker: Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven)
Talk: An onomasiological perspective on semantic change
Format: onsite at English Oberseminar
Speaker: Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford)
Talk: tba
Format: onsite
Speaker: Qiongpeng Luo (Nanjing University)
Talk: Reference to Subkinds
Format: onsite
Speaker: Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard University)
Talk: Structuring Itelmen Word Order
*no meeting*
Format: onsite
*no meeting*
Format: online
Speaker: Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester)
Talk: Believe it or not: Perspectival replacement


Term Coordinator: Hedde Zeijlstra (Email), Yana Strakatova (Email)

General Coordinator: Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)