Summer Term 2023

Summer Term 2023


Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)

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

Talks will be announced regularly via the LinG mailing list and on this website (see below).

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

*Internal Meeting*
Format: Hybrid
Speaker: Atefe Shahbazi (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Non-active Voices in Kurdish and Baxtiari: Filling a Paradigmatic Gap
*NO MEETING*
Format: onsite
Speaker: Sumrah Arshad (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Acquisition of sentential negation and negative concord
Format: onsite
Speaker: Clemens Mayr & Ekaterina Vostrikova (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Everyone except possibly Ann
Format: onsite
Speaker: Andrew Murphy

Talk: Constraining deletion: Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito
Format: onsite
Speaker: Andreea Nicolae (Leibniz ZAS)

Talk:Exclusivity of Disjunction(s): A Cross-Linguistic Study
Format: onsite
Speaker: Nina Haslinger (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Imprecision, structural complexity and the Gricean Maxim of Manner
Format: onsite
Speaker: Zahra Mirrazi (UCLA)

Talk: Choice Functions & Binder Roof Constraint
Format: onsite
Speaker: July Goncharov & Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen)

Talk: Triviality in context
*no meeting*
Format: onsite
Speaker: Valerie Wurm (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Talk: Epistemic modality encodes cognitive effort
Format: onsite
Speaker: Sarah Zobel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Talk: The German adverb of quantity 'größtenteils': quantification over parts