The Research Training Group on Nominal Modification at the Goethe University Frankfurt
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 7th GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University,) entitled “Numeral-noun combinations and the hidden partitive hypothesis revisited” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 please send an e-mail to (). GK Colloquium is open to all Continue Reading
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 17th GK Colloquium will be hosting a workshop by Manfred Sailer (GU) on ‘Using Sketchengine’, a platform proving access to corpora of many languages (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 please send an e-mail to (). GK Colloquium is open to Continue Reading
Our doctoral researcher Emine Sahingöz gave an interview to the popular newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine on Ossetian language and the attempts to document and rescue this endangered language. To read the whole article in German please click here.
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, January 18th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Joana Ferreira will present her research entitled ‘Some remarks on the selectional properties of “possível”: from Latin to modern European Portuguese‘ (abstract) and Ahmad Al-Bitar will present his research entitled ‘Why two word orders of the Continue Reading
We are very happy to announce that on December 17th (Friday) 2021, Fenna Bergsma (a GK alumni) will be defending her dissertation on ”Case competition in headless relatives”. We all wish Fenna good luck!
Dear all after 3 semesters of having GK Colloquium in a virtual format, due to the Corona situation in Frankfurt and its surrounding this semester we will continue to meet virtually for the GK Colloquium. To receive a zoom link please send an e-mail to . For the details of upcoming talks check out the Continue Reading
Please note that which was planned to take place on June 29th had to be cancelled!
Please note that Fatima Hamlaoui’s which was planned to take place on July 6th had to be cancelled!
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 1st, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Judith Tonhauser, on “A time-relational framework for the temporal interpretation of noun phrases”. Please see below for the abstract. When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Online via Zoom(if you are not a regular member of RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ please send an Continue Reading
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 18th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting Ora Matushansky, who will give a talk on “En France, à Paris, là-dedans – où?” (abstract) When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Online via Zoom(if you are not a regular member of RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ please send an e-mail to to receive a Continue Reading
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 11th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting Gert Webelhuth (one of our PIs), who will give a talk on On the role of c-command in German. Abstract Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature Continue Reading
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 4th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting Luigi Rizzi, who will give a talk on Some thoughts on merge: typology, labeling, and freezing effects (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Online via Zoom(if you are not a regular member of RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ please send an e-mail to to Continue Reading
We regret to share the news that Akinbiyi Akinlabi’s talk on February 2nd is cancelled. Our next meeting will take place on February 16th with two doctoral student talks.
The 13th Annual conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 13) will take place on September 24-29, 2020 online. Our GK student, Sebastian Bredemann will present his research on “The role of phonology in Vata adjectival agreement ” on September 26th (Saturday, @3:00 pm CET; GMT+2; Budapest time), abstract can be downloaded here. Information on Continue Reading
On Tuesday, June 16th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting talks by Sanja Srdanović entitled Possessive pronouns do not c-command out of the noun phrase in Serbian: Evidence from a self-paced reading task‘(abstract) and Emine Şahingöz entitled On the traces of i (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to get access link)
On Tuesday, May 26th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Astrid Gößwein entitled ‘Double center embedding of prenominal participle constructions and relative clauses in German’. See below for the abstract. When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to get access link) Double center embedding of prenominal participle constructions and relative clauses in German Center embedded structures Continue Reading
On Tuesday, January 21th GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Martina Wiltschko entitled ‘Let’s interact with high end nominals’. See below for the abstract. When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: SH 0.107 Let’s interact with high end nominals! In recent years there has been increasing interest in the syntax of speech acts to the effect that Continue Reading
On Tuesday, November 26th at 4pm (c.t.) at SH 0.107, Sanja Srdanović will be giving a talk in the GK colloquium. See below for the abstract. Title: Cataphoric pronoun resolution in Serbian Abstract: It has been shown that c-command has an effect on the acceptability of coreference in pronoun-name constructions (cataphoric binding/backward anaphor) (cf. 1a and 1b). The ungrammaticality Continue Reading
On Tuesday, November 5th at 4:30 pm at the Seminarhaus (SH) 0.107, Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) will be giving a talk in the GK colloquium. Title: Verb-stranding Ellipsis: evidence from Cantonese Abstract:Landau (2018) argues that object gaps in Hebrew are not results of Verb-stranding VP Ellip- sis. He further suggests that X-stranding XP-ellipsis is very limited cross-linguistically. In Continue Reading
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