Kategorie: Allgemein

Dear students in their first semester of the BA Linguistics,   Unlike originally planned, we are unable to hold the orientation event for students in the first semester of the BA Linguistics as a classroom event. We regret this very much. The rapidly increasing number of corona infections, especially in the Frankfurt area, makes it seem necessary to move our event to the virtual room in order to protect all participants from the risk of infection.    Nevertheless, we will meet on Monday, November 2, 2020 at 3:30 pm for our orientation event, which will take the form of a zoom session.   You have already received the link to Zoom by email. If you have not received an email, please contact Dr. Schulze-Bünte.  ...

We are very happy to announce the next last talk of this semester’s Syntax Colloquium, which will take place on Monday, January 20, 4 – 6 pm in IG 4.301.   Alassane Kiemtoré (Stuttgart) will talk about „Contrast and Logophoricity: reflections on the use of the emphatic pronoun ale in Jula“. Abstract: Abstract.Frankfurt.Alassane Kiemtoré   You are cordially invited!...

We are happy to announce a talk by Kristina Liefke  (Goethe Universität) next Thursday at the Semantics Colloquium. Please find an abstract below. Title: Single-Type Semantics and Depiction Reports (joint work with Markus Werning, Bochum) Room: IG 4.301 Date: December 12th Time: 4pm - 6pm Abstract: In this talk, we show that single-type semantics (see Liefke and Werning, 2018) provides a compositional semantics for physical and mental depiction reports (e.g. 'Paul is painting a penguin', 'Uli is imagining a unicorn') that improves upon Montague-style semantics (see Moltmann, 1997) and property-based semantics for such reports (see Zimmermann, 2016; cf. Zimmermann, 1993). In particular, single-type semantics accounts for missing de dicto-readings of depiction reports with a strong quantificational object DP, blocks unwarranted inferences to a common objective, and captures the semantic interaction of DPs and CPs in depiction complements. The semantics also makes a number of plausible predictions about the role of context in the interpretation of depiction complements and the subjectivity of depicted contents. ...

We are very happy to announce the next talk of this semester’s Syntax Colloquium, which will take place on Monday, Dezember 9, 4 – 6 pm in IG 4.301. Francesco Pinzin will talk about „Latin verbal thematic vowels: aktionsart and overriding“. Abstract: Latin verbs show a set of vocalic elements before the Tense/Aspect/Mood morphemes, these elements are usually called Thematic Vowels (TVs): laud-ā-ba-m mon-ē-ba-m praise-tv1-impf-1sg advise-tv2-impf-1sg TVs are mostly analyzed as empty class markers, whose value is purely morphological (a.o., Aronoff 1994). The existence of syntactically and semantically empty morphemes logically requires the existence a post-syntactic and purely morphological step in the derivation where to insert them, call it Morphological Structure, as in Distributed Morphology models, or Paradigmatic/Morphomic level, as in Words and Paradigms models. In this presentation I argue that, as far as Latin TVs are concerned, there is no need for such a step. The distribution of Latin TVs with respect to the morphological base they select, the aktionsart semantics of the verb and...