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

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

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”  

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”.

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

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”.

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

We are happy to announce that Prof. Tom Leu from Université du Québec à Montréal will teach a minicourse on the morphosyntax around German d  on June 7th and 8th, 2018. Schedule: Thursday 7.6:  14-16 in SP 0.02 (Seminarpavillon) Friday 8.6:      10-12 in SH 1.101 (Seminarhaus) Friday 8.6:      14 – 16 Continue Reading

Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) will give a colloquium talk on May 15th, at 4pm in SH 3.104. Title: Deriving Case Theory Abstract: Case Theory has been central to predicting where DPs occur in a clause. The idea is that (i) a DP is assigned Case by a local [-N] head; (ii) every DP must have Continue Reading

The 18th International Morphology Meeting will be held in Budapest from 10th to 13th of April, 2018. Our GK student, Sanja Srdanović, will present her work on “Would it be faster, slower or the same with additional morphemes? The (Non)-existence of the Decomposition in the Processing of Deverbal Nominals” (with Anja Šarić and Isidora Gatarić).