We are very happy to announce that our invited guest Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University) will be giving a mini course on ‘Decomposing Indeterminates and Composing Indefinite Pronouns’ Date & time: May 24th 2023, 14:00-18:00Location: Campus Westend, Cas 1.802Registration: open for all linguists of GU.Please add your name to the list if you are planning Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 23th, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University) entitled “N’-ellipsis in Japanese and Okinawan: Deletion or Haplology” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room IG 205 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2023 please Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that our doctoral researcher Giacomo Presotto will give an invited talk on ‘Neither here nor there. Grammar and processing in the theory of locality’ at the seminar of the “Centre de Lingüística Teòrica” – CLT (Center for Theoretical Linguistics) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The talk will be Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 16th, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) entitled “The ‘edge of chaos’ in language variation and change: a minimalist perspective” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room IG 205 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom Continue Reading

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in Thessaloniki, Greece will take place between May 04-07, 2023. Our GK student Dimitrios Kotopoulis will present his research on May 6th, entitled “Selection by categorizer: evidence from Greek transitive adjectives”. More information on the program and further Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 9th, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest David Adger (Queen Mary University of London) entitled “Identity Subextraction from nominals in Mereological Syntax” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room IG 205 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2023 Continue Reading

53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris will take place between June 26-30, 2023. Our GK student Anna Preßler will present her research, on June 26th, entitled “The A-N vs. N-A asymmetry: French adjectives at the Syntax-Phonology interface”. More information on the program and further details Continue Reading

The 12th annual meeting of the North American Phonology Conference, hosted by Concordia University in Montreal, will take place between May 11th-14th, 2023. Our GK student Anna Preßler will present a poster, on May 13th, entitled “Do prosodic factors affect the positioning of French attributive adjectives? Evidence from an acceptability judgment task”. More information on Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, April 25, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest Orin Percus (Université de Nantes) entitled “Identity issues after Flight AF 006” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room IG 205 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2023 please send an Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, April 18, GK Colloquium will be hosting an online talk by our invited guest Tania Ionin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) entitled “Every configuration is not ambiguous: Experimental investigations into quantifier scope in native and non-native grammars” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Online via Zoomto receive a Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, April 11, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest Rowena Garcia (University of Potsdam) entitled “Assigning and ordering thematic roles in Tagalog: Evidence from corpus and experimental work” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room  SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Continue Reading

The new GRADE workshop program for the summer semester 2023 is online and open for registration. The complete program including the respective links for online registration can be found here. The program brochure, including an overview of further GRADE activities, can be seen here. Our close collaborator GRADE Center Language’s funding opportunities and upcoming events can also be seen here.

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, February 7th , GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest Niels O. Schiller (Leiden University) entitled “Nominal features in language production: The case of gender and classifier processing” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & via Zoomto receive a Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, January 31st, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our invited guest Dan Parker (The Ohio State University) entitled “Sometimes more is less: How representational complexity impacts processing Dynamics” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, January 24th, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our doctoral researcher Anita Obenaus. Anita will present her research on “What makes a classifier a classifier? – Source constructions and the distinction to nominal roots in the Bolivian Arawak languages” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, January 17th, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our doctoral researcher Tommaso Mattiuzzi. Tommaso will present his research on “Bare nouns in any kind of place: approaching Italian bare PPs with corpus data” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, January 10th 22nd, GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho) entitled “The role of little n in the derivation of null arguments” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for WiSe2022/23 please send an e-mail to (). GK Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, December 13th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Giacomo Presotto will present his research on “Better alone than in bad company. Trade-offs between redundant and deficient cues assist the integration of ORCs.” (abstract) and Dimitrios Kotopoulis will present his research entitled “The case of Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, December 6th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Maximilian Berthold will present his research entitled “Nominal aktionsarten: a formal account” (abstract) and Julien Foglietti will present her research on “The first name/last name asymmetry – Update on the experimental design and a possible semantic Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, November 29th GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by our doctoral researcher, Nehir Aygül entitled “Computing Quantifier Scope in Scrambling Languages: a study in Turkish” (abstract) . When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for WiSe2022/23 please send Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, November 22nd GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Louise McNally, Mercator Fellow of RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ (UPF) entitled “Using adjectives for reference: A cross-linguistic perspective” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for WiSe2022/23 please send an Continue Reading

Syntax – Universals, Variation, Acquisition, and Change Workshop, hosted by Oxford University , will take place on 16th-18th November 2022. Our GK student, Viktor Köhlich will attend the workshop and presentr a talk entitled “A Cartographic Analysis of Direct Modifiers in Japanese” on November 17th. More information on the program and registration can be seen here.

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, November 15th GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Norvin Richards  (MIT) entitled “Finding something to lean on: linkers and modification in Contiguity Theory” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 5.101 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for WiSe2022/23 please send an e-mail Continue Reading

RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ offers a doctoral researcher position (E13 TV-GU, 65%), with the focus on language acquisition. Duration of the funding is 12 months. Application due date is November 22, 2022. For further information and requirements please check out the job announcement here.

Experimental approaches to Romance Morphology (ExMorph22), hosted by University of Vienna, will take place on 26th-27th October 2022. Our GK student, Giacomo Presotto will attend the workshop with a talk entitled “The role of DOM in Spanish children’s comprehension of ORCs”. More information on the program and registration can be seen here.

GK doctoral researchers are organising a two-day Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain (WONDo): Factors, Perspectives & Approaches. The workshop will take place between November 10-11, 2022 on Campus Westend (Cas 1.811) of Goethe University (homepage). The workshop will host talks both by doctoral researchers, GK alumni and invited speakers. Participation is free Continue Reading

We are very excited to share that Colloquim Program of RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ in Winter Semester 2022/23 is now online. The Colloquim will host talks by invited speakers as well as the doctoral researchers of RTG working on various aspects of Nominal Modification. For more updates and details check our website and keep an eye Continue Reading

We are very happy to announce that Louise McNally will be visiting RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ as Mercator Fellow in November 2022 (01.10-29.10). McNally will be offering two Mini-Courses and a Colloquim talk during her stay at Goethe University (see below for more details). Prof. McNally will also be meeting our senior and junior researchers to Continue Reading

The 18th annual meeting of the Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum Conference (P&P 18), hosted by University of Bielefeld, will take place on October 6th-7th, 2022. Our GK student, Anna Preßler will attend the conference with a poster entitled “Rhythmic alternation or alternation rythmique? Prosodic factors in the positioning of a sub-class of attributive adjectives in Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, July 12th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Shota Momma (UMass) entitled “Structure building in speaking“ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 please send an e-mail to (). GK Colloquium is open Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, July 5th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Alexandra Simonenko (Ghent University) entitled “What can historical treebanks teach us about noun phrase semantics?“(abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 please send an e-mail Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 28th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Adrian Brasoveanu  (University of Santa Cruz) entitled “Induction of Rule Ordering in Production-based Processing Models” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 please send an Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 21th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Elaine J. Francis (Purdue University, US) entitled “Gradient acceptability at the intersections of syntax, discourse, and language processing” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 14th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan Bicocca & ZAS, Berlin) entitled “Relative clauses across languages and across mode of acquisition” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link Continue Reading

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 31st  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Juliette Thuilier (Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse) entitled “Modeling the position of the attributive adjective in French: a quantitative and experimental approach” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Campus Westend Room SH 1.104 & via Zoomto receive a Zoom link Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 24th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Mark Baker (Rutgers University) entitled “On Logophoric Phenomena Inside Nominals: Implications for NP Structure” (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

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

42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will take place between May 6-8, 2022 (online). Our doctoral researcher Dimitrios Kotopoulis, will present his recent research on “Greek genitives: A dependent case approach” on May 7th. The program could be found here.

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 10th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Paula Rubio-Fernandez (MIT) on “The psychophysics of referential communication: Discriminability vs. informativity” (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 linguists 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, April 19th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Thomas McFadden (ZAS) on “What the structural/inherent case distinction can tell us about the implementation of dependent case” (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 Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, April 12th  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading/UiT The Arctic University of Norway) on “To share or not to share? Priming syntactic representations in young bilinguals“(abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for SoSe2022 please send an Continue Reading

The Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Modern Language of Modern Languages of Goethe University Frankfurt offers full funding for 1 position as Doctoral Researcher (E13 TV-GU, 65%-part-time) as a part of RTG ‘Nominal Modification‘. Due date for applications is November 3, 2022. For the details of application and requirements please click here.

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, February 15th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Giacomo Presotto will present his research entitled ‘On the disambiguation of subjects and objects in ORCs. Some thoughts on ameliorations in intervention effects’ (abstract) and Maximilian Berthold will present her research on ‘Nominal Aktionsarten‘ (abstract). When: 4:15 Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, February 8th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Nasimeh Bahmanian will present her research on ‘Argument structure affects relative clause extraposition: Evidence from a corpus study on Persian ‘ (abstract) and Nehir Aygül will present her research entitled ‘Computing Quantifier Scope‘ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, February 1st, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Emine Şahingöz will present her research on ‘Differential Object Marking in Ossetic: A corpus-based analysis ‘ (abstract) and Emma Merritt will present her research entitled ‘Identifying Areas of Difficulty in the Comprehension of Recursion‘ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, January 25th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois Chicago) on  “Differential Object Marking and Clitic Doubling in Spanish across the contact continuum” (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: via Zoomto receive a Zoom link for WiSe21/22 please send an e-mail to (). Continue Reading

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 January 14th (Friday) 2022, Astrid Gößwein (a GK alumni) will be defending her dissertation on ”Processing complexity in prenominal present participle constructions in German”. We all wish Astrid good luck!