Summer Term 2024
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.
April 9: *no meeting*
*no meeting*
Format: onsite
Format: onsite
Speaker: Sascha Alexeyenko
Talk: Introduction to the database of nominal modification (under construction)
Format: onsite
Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra
Talk: Universal paradigmatic gaps
Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra
Talk: Universal paradigmatic gaps
Format: onsite
Speaker: Feras Saeed
Talk: The derivation of adjectival modification
Format: onsite
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Talk: Bare plurals in articleless languages as weak definites
Format: onsite
Speaker: Mitya Privoznov
Talk: The syntax of presupposition projection and discourse anaphora
Format: onsite
Speaker: Katia Vostrikova
Talk: Simultaneous Readings of Past-Under-Past in Russian
Format: onsite
Speakers: Sascha Alexeyenko, Diana Kakashvili, Stavros Skopeteas
Talk: Ergativity in Batsbi (Tsova Tush)
Format: onsite
Speaker: Kenyon Branan
Talk: Defective intervention and probe uniformity
Format: onsite
Speaker: Zeqi Zhao
Talk: The interpretation of Mandarin Bare Numeral Phrases: (in)definiteness without articles
Format:onsite
Speaker: Madeline Ladore
Talk: Yall is plural and you is too (but only weakly) (joint work with Chris Davis)
Format: onsite
Speaker: Danfeng Wu
Talk: Corrective markers bing and you in Mandarin Chinese