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James McCloskey (UCSC): Lecture series “On the Expression of Polarity in Natural Language”
Lecture series in three sessions as part of the Graduate School Nominal Modification. Tuesday 10.07., 10-14, SH 0.108 Wednesday 11.07. 12-16, SH 0.108 Thursday 12.07. 12-16, SH 4.103 (note the room change) Negation is a much-studied aspect of natural language and as a consequence of that study we have an unusually rich and complete typological Continue Reading
Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
Talk as part of the project “Propositionalismus in der linguistischen Semantik” Ivano Caponigro (University of California San Diego) “Richard Montague’s Turn Towards Natural Language ” Time: Tue, 10.07.2018, 4 – 6. Location: SH 3.104 In the early 60s, Richard Montague still believed that: “[The] systematic exploration of the English language, indeed of what might be Continue Reading
Fenna Bergsma’s talk in Leipzig
Our GK student Fenna Bergama will give a talk in the Colloquium Syntax and its Interfaces at Universität Leipzig on 26th June. The title of her talk is: Grafting nanosyntactic trees: an analysis of case mismatches in free relatives.
Florian Schwarz’s talks and a workshop
We are pleased to announce that next week, Florian Schwarz (UPenn) will be giving two talks, on June 27th (2pm – 4pm) and June 29th (2pm – 4pm). He will also give a third talk on July 11th (2pm – 4pm) and a workshop on July 4th (4pm – 6pm) and 6th (2pm – 4pm). Please see below for details! June 27 (2pm – 4pm, SH 4.102) Redundancy Continue Reading
Colloquium: Philippe Schlenker
On Tuesday, June 26 at 4pm in SH 3.104, Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University) will be giving a talk at the GK colloquium. Gestural SemanticsPhilippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University) Experimental part with Lyn Tieu (Western Sydney University) and Emmanuel Chemla (LSCP, CNRS)We argue that most of the typology of inferences in natural language Continue Reading
Ruby Sleeman and Nicolas Lamoure at TEAM2018
Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation (TEAM 2018) will be held from 14 to 15 June in Padua, Italy. Our researchers, Ruby Sleeman and Nicolas Lamoure, will present their work. Ruby Sleeman: “Ordinal numerals in dialects of Dutch” Nicolas Lamoure: “D° ellipsis in D>N>&>N structures: Evidence from micro-variation in (Standard) Italian”
Yat Han Lai at ICLLS 2018
The Fourth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies (ICLLS 2018) will be held from 15 to 16 June in Hong Kong. Our GK student, Yat Han Lai will present his work on “Grammatical weight and relative clause processing in German and Cantonese”.
Minicourse: Larry Hyman on Tone systems and grammatical tone in African languages
We are happy to announce that Professor Larry Hyman (University of California in Berkeley) will be giving a mini-course in two sessions on June 14th and 15th (2-4pm). See below for details! Place & time: Thursday, June 14, 2-4: SP 1.01 Friday, June 15, 2-4: SH 1.109 Abstracts: Class 1: Tone Systems: An overview In this first class, I begin by Continue Reading
Fenna Bergsma at CGG 28
The 28th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 28) will be held from May 30th to June 1st in Tarragona, Spain. Our GK student, Fenna Bergsma will present her work on “Case mismatches in free relative constructions”.
Colloquium: Heidi Klockmann
Our new postdoc, Heidi Klockmann, will give a talk on May 29th, at 4pm in SH 3.104. Title: From N to Q: The morphosyntax of Polish and English quantificational expressions Abstract: Quantificational expressions like numerals (two, three, a hundred), quantifiers (a few, a dozen), and pseudopartitives (a bunch, a lot, a ton) often show a surface resemblance Continue Reading