Talk by Melanie Hobich on January 22nd, 4-6 pm
Melanie Hobich will present her work on January 22nd, 4-6 pm in SH 3.104!...
Two talks: Cecilia Poletto and Volker Struckmeier on January 22nd, 2-4 pm
We are very happy to announce the next talks in the Recent Trends in Linguistic Research Colloquium, which will take place on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2-4 pm in IG 0.251.
Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt) will present "Are Italian left focalization AND cleft sentences monoclausal structures? A syntax-prosody interface approach".
Volker Struckmeier (Köln) will present "Discourse functions and PF factors control ellipsis formation".
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Talk by Patrick D. Elliot on January 17th, 4-6 pm
Patrick D. Elliot will be giving the first talk of the year at the Semantics Colloquium on Thursday, January 17th, from 4 - 6 pm in IG 4.301. We hope many of you find the time to attend.
Title: Two souls of disjunction: deriving presupposition projection from exhaustification.
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Lecture Series – Tom Leu (UQAM)
Professor Thomas Leu (Université du Québec à Montréal) will be giving a mini-course in three sessions on June 7th(2-4) and8th (10-12, 2-4). See below for details!
Title: The morphosyntax around German d
Place & time:
Thursday, June 7, 2-4: SP 0.02
Friday, June 8, 10-12: SH 1.101
Friday, June 8, 2-4: CAS 1.812
Abstract:
While d, as a voiced coronal stop, is a rather ordinary almost boring speech sound (cf. English duh), d qua morpheme in German is, when looked at the right way, perhaps the most intriguing and insight-granting single grammatical ele- ment in human language discovered to date. This mini-course is about what makes me think so. In particular, I argue that it is this one morpheme d that we find in the seemingly distinct morphosyntactic environments of der ‘the’, dieser ‘this’, jeder ‘every’, dass ‘thatC ’, and that its syntactic properties are pivotal in understanding aspects of (i) V2 and (ii) the weak/strong adjectival declension alternation. The latter point has important consequences for our understanding of dative and genitive morphology. The former point gives a meaning to the -finite in definite, leading us...