Syntax Colloquium 18.01.2021 – Viktor Köhlich

By Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are very happy to announce the next talk in our syntax colloquium this term. Viktor Köhlich (Frankfurt) will talk about "Direct and Indirect  Modification in Japanese and the Japanese Word Class System". The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Title: Direct and Indirect Modification in Japanese and the Japanese Word  Class System Time : 18.01.2021 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. You will be sent a link / ID to Zoom.) Please find the abstract below. Your are all cordially invited. =============== In this talk, I will present the main ideas of my dissertation project. This project deals with the questions how prominent direct nominal modification is in Modern Standard Japanese and which elements act as exclusively direct modifiers. My goal is to defy the prevailing claim in the literature that Japanese lacks direct modification entirely. Embedding Japanese into the cartographic framework,...
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Talk by Viola Schmitt (Wien)

By Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are very happy to announce the next talk in our syntax colloquium this term. Viola Schmitt (Wien) will talk about "Distributive conjunctions and plurality — two cross-linguistic asymmetries", presenting joint work with Nina Haslinger (Göttingen), Eva Rosina (Vienna), Magdalena Roszkowski (Budapest) and Valerie Wurm (Vienna). The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Title: Distributive conjunctions and plurality — two cross-linguistic asymmetries Time : 14.12.2020, 4pm 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. You will be sent a link / ID to Zoom.) You are all, as always, cordially invited! Abstract: We argue that the conjunctive coordinating morpheme COORD denotes a plurality-forming operation cross-linguistically and across categories. We first present two cross-linguistic generalizations which strongly suggest that the basic meaning of COORD in individual conjunctions (e.g.`Ada and Bea’) is not intersective, as in `classical' analyses of conjunction, but...
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Talk by Fenna Bergsma (Frankfurt)

By Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
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...
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Online-talk by Marie-Luise Schwarzer, May 25, 4-6pm

By Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
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....
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Online-talk by Anna Preßler, May 18, 4-6pm

By Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk in the syntax colloquium. Anna Preßler will talk about "Word order variation in French adjectives – A phonological perspective". The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Title: Word order variation in French adjectives – A phonological perspective Time : 18.05.2020, 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.)...
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