Summer Term 2021
Summer Term 2021
Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax–Semantics)
Unless announced otherwise, the Oberseminar takes place on Tuesdays, 4–6 (ct).
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Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the meetings will not be held in the usual way but in the form of a video conference. For this the video conference provider Zoom will be used. Detailed information as to how to join the meetings 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.
- April 13: NO MEETING
- April 20: Thomas McFadden (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin) & Sandhya Sundaresan (Göttingen) -Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure building vs. structure-enrichment
- April 27: Zahra Mirrazi (UMass, Amherst) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) - A non-lexical approach to NEG-RAISING
- May 4: Ekaterina Vostrikova (Russian Academy of Sciences/Göttingen) - Conditional analysis for clausal exceptives
- May 11: NO MEETING
- May 18: Svetlana Berikashvili (Göttingen/Tbilisi) - Ergative case in Georgian
- May 25: NO MEETING
- June 1: NO MEETING
- June 8: Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Göttingen) - Narrow scope de re and generalization X: aspect and different evaluation indices for verbs and nouns
- June 15: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) & Viola Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Belief states as ordered sets of worlds: Evidence from embedded counterfactuals
- June 22: Seid Tvica (Göttingen) - On pro-drop
- June 29: George Markopoulos (University of the Aegean) & Anthi Revithiadou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) - Gradience in post-lexical phonology (joint meeting with the linguistics seminar)
- July 6: Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) & Akitaka Yamada (Osaka University) - On the syntax of honorificity with focus on Japanese
- July 13: Natasha Thalluri (Göttingen) - The implications of Type Economy for the semantics of comparatives
Term Coordinator:
Clemens Steiner-Mayr (Email)
General Coordinator:
Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)