Winter Term 2019-20

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

• October 22: [tba]
• October 29: Carina Kauf & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) – Unifying Pronominal Tense Semantics with Sequence of Tense
• November 5: Mojmír Dočekal & Iveta Šafratová (Masaryk University) – *swarms* and degrees -- 3 experiments on Slavic *swarm* constructions
• November 12: Amir Anvari (Insitut Jean Nicod, ENS Paris) Veridicality and Indexical Shift in Farsi
• November 19: [CANCELLED] Johann Schedlinski (Göttingen) – On the categorial status of that-clauses as verbal arguments
• November 26: Fereshteh Modaressi (Leibniz-ZAS) – Anaphoric Potential of Bare Nouns/ Weak definites
• December 3: Agata Renans (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – Types of predicates (distributive vs. non-distributive) and theories of exhaustivity
• December 10: Sascha Alexeyenko & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) – (Dis)obeying the Head Final Filter
• December 17: Seid Tvica (Göttingen)
• January 7: Muriel Assmann & Izabela Jordanoska (Wien) – Towards a Theory of Morphosyntactic Focus Marking
• January 14: Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) – What are we looking for? Disentangling extensionality, specificity and wide-scope individual quantification
  Samuel Gewinner (Göttingen) – Noun Gender in Indo-European Languages
• January 21: Katrin Schulz (Amsterdam) – How we talk about generalisations: some thoughts about conditionals and generics
• January 28: Sumrah Arshad & Daniele Panizza (Göttingen) – Acquisition of Negation and Negative Concord
• Febraury 4: Andreas Haida (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – On how the strongly exhaustive reading of wh-questions is derived