Autor: Anke Himmelreich

We are happy to announce a talk by Andrew Murphy (Universität Potsdam) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301 Date: November 13, 2023 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Title: "Case-Conditioned Allomorphy in Bidhaawyeet” Abstract: Case-Conditioned Allomorphy in Bidhaawyeet Much previous work on contextual allomorphy has focused on the question of locality: How structurally distant may the target and trigger of a 'special form' (or allomorph) be? A claim that emerges from Bobaljik's (2012) seminal study of suppletion in comparative constructions is that the complex word (maximal X0) is the delimiting domain for allomorphy. This is motivated by the absence of root suppletion in periphrastic comparatives. This claim has proven controversial, however, as it has been argued that this domain is insufficient for allomorphy that is apparently conditioned by an argument (Toosarvandani 2016; Bobaljik & Harley 2017; Weisser 2019). In this talk, we present novel data from the Cushitic language Bidhaawyeet (also known as Beja), spoken in Sudan, Egypt and...

We are happy to announce a talk by Samuel O. Acheampong (GU) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301 Date: November 06, 2023 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Title: "The syntax of Likpakpaanl sluicing and fragment answers” Abstract: Fragments and slucing in Likpakpaanl_Colloquium...

We are happy to announce a talk by Eric Fuß (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301 Date: October 30, 2023 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Title: "Das geht nicht zu ändern – on the properties and historical origin of the German 'gehen-passive”...

We are happy to announce a talk by Anke Himmelreich (GU) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301 Date: October 23, 2023 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Title: A cross-linguistic study on the structure of disjunction   Abstract: In this talk, I will present ideas and an outline of my planned project on the structure of disjunction. The project should have two general areas that together aim for developing a more comprehensive understanding of the morphosyntax of disjunctive structures. The first area targets agreement with disjunctive noun phrases. In this area, the goal is to see how agreement with disjunctions works and whether or not we see differences to agreement with conjunctions. For this, a large cross-linguistic study is planned to achieve a broader database for the theoretical investigation in the second part: Here, the goal is to tie in the findings of the first part with state-of-the-art theories of agreement and coordination to investigate the general structure...

We are happy to announce two talks by Samuel Atintono (Accra College of Education) and Samuel A. Issah (University of Education Winneba) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301 Date: July 10, 2023 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Titles: Weak pronoun placement and post verbal particles: A case of object shift in Mabia (Samuel Atintono)               Inaudible syntax in Mabia: The case of fragmentary answers in Dagbani and Gurenɛ (Samuel A. Issah)   Abstracts: Weak pronoun placement and post verbal particles: A case of object shift in Mabia (Samuel A. Atintono) In this presentation, we explore the distribution of the postverbal particles la/mi and la/mɛ for Dagbani and Gurenɛ, two Mabia languages spoken in Northern Ghana. We show that they are full DPs and weak pronouns behave different in the syntax regarding the distribution of these verbal particles. Thus, while the la particle of both Dagbani and Gurenɛ requires an overt DP or an...