Winter Term 2021-22
Winter Term 2021-22
Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)
Unless announced otherwise, the Oberseminar takes place on:
Tuesdays, 4:30-6:00 pm.
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Meetings of the Oberseminar English Linguistics this winter term 2021-22 will be offered as a hybrid model: As indicated below, some talks will be held online and some onsite. The Oberseminar can be joined online or in person in VG 4.107 . 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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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.
October 26: *Internal Meeting*
*Internal Meeting*
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Andreas Blümel (Göttingen)
Talk: DET(-drop), LBC and LBE – a view from labeling theory
Speaker: Andreas Blümel (Göttingen)
Talk: DET(-drop), LBC and LBE – a view from labeling theory
Format: onsite
Speaker: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Göttingen)
Talk: Transparent readings without movement or world pronouns
Speaker: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Göttingen)
Talk: Transparent readings without movement or world pronouns
Format: onsite
Speaker: Guillermo del Pinal (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Talk: Meaning-driven unacceptability, modulated logical forms and the "spontaneous logicality of language''
Speaker: Guillermo del Pinal (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Talk: Meaning-driven unacceptability, modulated logical forms and the "spontaneous logicality of language''
Format: online (Zoom)
Speakers: Julie Goncharov (Göttingen) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
Talk: Parasitic licensing & diagonalization
Speakers: Julie Goncharov (Göttingen) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
Talk: Parasitic licensing & diagonalization
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Talk: Singular existentials and three different kinds of negation
Speaker: Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Talk: Singular existentials and three different kinds of negation
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Petr Kusliy (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Talk: On the nature of the Present tense in English: evidence from VP-fronting constructions
Speaker: Petr Kusliy (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Talk: On the nature of the Present tense in English: evidence from VP-fronting constructions
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Mathieu Paillé (McGill University)
Talk: On the strengthening of non-scalar predicates and the syntactic distribution of exhaustivity
Speaker: Mathieu Paillé (McGill University)
Talk: On the strengthening of non-scalar predicates and the syntactic distribution of exhaustivity
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Marion Bonnet (Göttingen)
Talk: On the role of gestures in language processing: from experimental studies to modeling proposition
Speaker: Marion Bonnet (Göttingen)
Talk: On the role of gestures in language processing: from experimental studies to modeling proposition
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Zeqi Zhao (Göttingen)
Talk: Revisiting the de se requirement on ziji: The relevance of evidentiality.
Speaker: Zeqi Zhao (Göttingen)
Talk: Revisiting the de se requirement on ziji: The relevance of evidentiality.
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Sascha Alexeyenko (Göttingen)
Talk: The interactions of local person and number features in Mapudungun
Speaker: Sascha Alexeyenko (Göttingen)
Talk: The interactions of local person and number features in Mapudungun
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Neha Kuhlshreshtha (Göttingen)
Talk: Interrogatives in Indian Sign Language
Speaker: Neha Kuhlshreshtha (Göttingen)
Talk: Interrogatives in Indian Sign Language
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen)
Talk: Two types of non-maximality and the plural Sorites paradox
Speaker: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen)
Talk: Two types of non-maximality and the plural Sorites paradox
Format: online (Zoom)
Speaker: Beste Kamali (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
Talk: Existential PPIs, universal NPIs, and the landscape of polarity sensitivity
Speaker: Beste Kamali (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
Talk: Existential PPIs, universal NPIs, and the landscape of polarity sensitivity
Term Coordinator: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email)
General Coordinator: Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)