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 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

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

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, 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, 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

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

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 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

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

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 11th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Anna Preßler will present her research on ‘The position of French attributive adjectives: a closer look at semantic considerations’ (abstract) and Julien Foglietti will present his research on ‘Proper names where you don’t expect them – Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, December 14th, GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by our doctoral researchers. Dimitrios Kotopoulis will present his research on ‘Theories of KP’ (abstract) and Tommaso Mattiuzzi will present his research on ‘(Lack of) Nominal Modification: What ‘slim’ nominals might tell us about modifiers’ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Continue Reading

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, November 16th,  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Sebastian Bredemann (doctoral researcher of GK) on “Phonologically conditioned gender mismatches in French”(abstract).  When: 5:00 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: via Zoom (to receive a Zoom link for WiSe21/22 please send an e-mail to )

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, November 9th,  GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Viktor Köhlich on  “On the Syntactic Status of the Element –no and the Categorization of no-Modifiers in Japanese “(abstract).  When: 4:15 pm-5:00 pm (CET)Where:  via Zoom (to receive a Zoom link for WiSe21/22 please send an e-mail to )

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 15th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Eulàlia Bonet Alsina on  “Allomorphy and floating segments” (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 Zoom access link).

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, June 8th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, on  “Determiners in Wooi (West Papua)” (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 Zoom access link).

On Tuesday, April 27th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk entitled Typing Relative Clauses in Dagbani (Mabia) (abstract) by Johannes Mursell and Katharina Hartmann (one of our PIs).  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 Zoom access Continue Reading

We will open the first slot of the semester with a talk by Sol Lago (one of our PIs) on Grammatical illusions in bilingual processing (abstract). After the talk we will have our virtual social event ‘Welcome & Farewell’ on which we will welcome the 3.cohort of the doctoral researchers, and say goodbye to the current Continue Reading

On Tuesday, January 16th, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by doctoral researchers of GK.  Natalie Roller will present his recent research on ‘Strategies of Nominal Modification in Tagalog’ (abstract) and Anna Preßler will present her work on ‘The role of phonological factors in word order phenomena‘ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Online via Zoom(if you are not a Continue Reading

On Tuesday, January 26th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by doctoral researchers of GK.  Sebastian Bredemann will present his recent research on ‘Accounting for optimizing and non-optimizing phonologically conditioned allomorphy’ (abstract) and Emma Merritt will present her work on ‘Recursive Structures in Language Acquisition: Recent findings, open questions, and implications for linguistic theory’ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm Continue Reading

On Tuesday, January 12th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by doctoral researchers of GK. Ahmad Al-Bitar will present his work on ‘Abstract ‘average’: a Unique modifier‘ (abstract) and Yat Han Lai will present his recent research on ‘Processing non-canonical order’ (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pm (CET)Where: Online via Zoom(if you are not a regular member of RTG Continue Reading

On Tuesday, December 8th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Christoph Scheepers (University of Glasgow) entitled ‘Syntactic Priming of Relative-Clause Attachments: Implications for the Mental Representation of Syntax‘ (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 access link)

Due to the current Covid-19 restrictions, this semester’s GK Colloquium will take place virtually. We are going to open the first slot of our weekly meetings on November 17th, with two doctoral researcher talks. Emine Şahingöz will present her talk on ‘Centering in Ossetic’ (abstract) and Viktor Köhlich will present his research on ‘Direct and Continue Reading

Immediately following Michael Erlewine’s talk, virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting two talks by doctoral researchers of GK. Priscilla Adenuga will present her research on Plural sensitivity to animacy and definiteness: crosslinguistic evidence (abstract) and Melanie Hobich will present her research entitled On wh-exclamatives (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to Continue Reading

On Tuesday, June 14th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting 3 talks. The first talk by our guest speaker Michael Erlewine will be on Patterns of relativization in Austronesian and Tibetan. This talk will start at 2:15. Please send an e-mail to to get access link to Zoom meeting room. Abstract In both Tibetan and Continue Reading

On Tuesday, June 7th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting talks by Lydia Grohe entitled  Multiple adjectival modification in child spontaneous speech and in the adult input (abstract) and Yat Han Lai entitled The production of non-canonical orders (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to get access link)

On Tuesday, June 30th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting talks by Sebastian Bredemann entitled On the influence of phonology in morphological realization (abstract) and Abigail Bimpeh entitled Control Phenomena in Ewe (abstract). When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to get access link)

On Tuesday, June 23rd virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Ted Gibson entitled ‘Information processing and cross-linguistic universals’. 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) Information processing and cross-linguistic universals Finding explanations for the observed variation in human languagesis the primary goal of linguistics, and 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)