Category: Syntax

We are very happy to announce the next talk in our syntax colloquium this term. Fenna Bergsma will talk about "A typology of case competition in headless relatives". The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Please not the change from our usual time! Title: A typology of case competition in headless relatives Time : 30.11.2020, 2 pm Place: Zoom (If you are not a regular member of the syntax colloquium and if you would like to listen to this talk, please contact Katharina Hartmann: k.hartmann@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de. You will be sent a link / ID to Zoom.) Please see below for the abstract. You are all, as always, cordially invited! ============================ A typology of case competition in headless relatives   In case competition in headless relatives two aspects play a role. The first one is which case wins the case competition. It is a crosslinguistically stable fact that this is determined by the case scale in (1). A case more to the right on...

We are happy to announce the next talk in our syntax colloquium this term. Marie-Luise Schwarzer (Leipzig) will talk about "An [E] feature analysis of German determiner sharing". The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Title: An [E] feature analysis of German determiner sharing Time : 25.05.2020, 4.15 pm Place: Zoom If you are not a regular member of the syntax colloquium and if you would like to listen to this talk, please contact Katharina Hartmann: k.hartmann@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de. You will be sent a link / ID to Zoom....

We are very happy to announce the next talk in the syntax colloquium this term. Anke Himmelreich will talk about "Variable Affix Order on the Surface: The Case of Turkish". The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Title: Variable Affix Order on the Surface: The Case of Turkish Time: 04.05.2020, 4.15 pm Place: Zoom (If you are not a regular member of the syntax colloquium and if you would like to listen to this talk, please contact Katharina Hartmann: k.hartmann@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de. You will be sent a link / ID to Zoom.) Abstract: The Turkish verb has two surface positions for the agreement suffix.  This phenomenon has so far received fairly little attention. Drawing from data involving suspended affixation (Kornfilt 1996), we argue that, syntactically, there is only one position for  the agreement marker (cf. also Kabak 2007) and that the variability of the position is due to  surface-oriented constraints, which additionally derive the pattern of suspended affixation (in...