Oberseminar English Linguistics
Winter Term 2024-2025
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 0.244 (Medienraum) . 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.
October 22: Internal meeting
Format: Online
Format: Onsite
Speaker: tba
Talk: tba
Format: Onsite
Speaker: tba
Talk: How does the ideophonic language background affect the perception of ideophones? A cross-linguistic comparison of German and Ga
Format: Onsite
Speaker: Bridget Copley (Universität Paris 8)
Talk: Listening to causation, the "B side" of modality: The English progressive as a case study
Speaker: Bridget Copley (Universität Paris 8)
Talk: Listening to causation, the "B side" of modality: The English progressive as a case study
Format: Onsite
Speaker: kenyon Branan
Talk:Towards a unification of Case Discrimination and anti-agreement
Format: Onsite
Speaker:Ana Rita de Seite
Talk:Presenting BridGe:A project on the link between grammatical gender and social cognition in language processing
Format: Onsite
Speaker: Petr Kusliy
Talk:Imperfective Aspect and Tense: Rethinking the Kleinian Semantics
Format: Onsite
Speaker: tba
Talk: tba
Format: Onsite
!! A joint talk with the General Linguistics Colloquium Speaker:Léa Nash (Paris 8) Talk:Structuring Indirect Causation
!! A joint talk with the General Linguistics Colloquium Speaker:Léa Nash (Paris 8) Talk:Structuring Indirect Causation
Format: Onsite
Speaker: Astrid van Alem (Utrecht)
Talk: Complementiser agreement as subject doubling: the view from Brabantic
Format: Onsite
Speaker: tba
Talk:Causatives as a window to the semantic denotations and morphology of passives
Format: Onsite
Speaker: Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
!! A joint talk with the General Linguistics Colloquium Talk:Making exceptions:The syntax of exceptive constructions with a special emphasis on ellipsis
!! A joint talk with the General Linguistics Colloquium Talk:Making exceptions:The syntax of exceptive constructions with a special emphasis on ellipsis
Format: Onsite
Speaker:Jessica Mendes
Talk:Indefiniteness in Future Reference
General Coordinator: Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)