Talk by Carolin Reinert (Frankfurt)

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Carolin Reinert (Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium. The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301. Title: The compositionality of adjective noun constructions – Investigating the comparison property of skillful-type adjectives Date: June 23 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Abstract: In the last talk I gave in the colloquium, I addressed the core assumption of my thesis, namely that skillful-type adjectives - apart from being dependent on a comparison class, which makes them similar to tall-type adjectives - are dependent on an additional parameter, a comparison property. Given a value for these parameters, skillful-type adjectives turn out to be complex predicates after all, not modifiers, and therefore are able to combine with the noun via Intersection. I argued for a “context dependence only” approach to adjective denotations. In this talk, I will present the next chapter of my thesis. I will address further issues in connection with the comparison property of skillful-type adjectives and will argue that the comparison property is present as an actual argument to the adjective, not as...
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Talk by Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz ZAS, Berlin)

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk by Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz ZAS, Berlin) in the Phonology Colloquium. Title: Towards a typology of prosody-segment interaction: The case of tone-driven epenthesis Date: Wednesday, 22.06.2022 Time: 16-18 Location: IG 4.301 in person, if necessary with additional Zoom If you want to participate via Zoom, please register via email to Alina Gregori: gregori@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract: This talk presents on an oft-neglected topic in phonological typology: the interaction between segments and prosody (e.g. pitch/tone/intonation/etc.). Some prosody-segment interactions are commonly found (e.g. tone lowering with depressor consonants) and others are known to be quite rare (e.g. tone height dependent on vowel height), but in general its empirical landscape has not been firmly established. This talk argues that we must add to this typology a novel process we call ‘tone-driven epenthesis’, defined as the phonological insertion of a vowel in order to host a tone (e.g. a high pitch target). We show evidence for tone-driven epenthesis in two African languages Wamey (Tenda, Niger-Congo: Senegal)...
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Two talks by Daniel Aremu (Frankfurt) and Samuel O. Acheampong (Frankfurt) in the Syntax Colloquium

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce two talks by Daniel Aremu (Frankfurt) and Samuel O. Acheampong (Frankfurt) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301. Titles: The syntax of Verb Phrase Ellipsis in Likpakpaanl (Sam Acheampong)             Association with focus in Mabia languages (Daniel Aremu) Date: June 20 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct...
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Talk by Oliver Schallert (LMU München)

by Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Oliver Schallert (LMU) in the Historical Linguistics Colloquium. The talk will be held in German. Title: Grammatische Lücken und Lückenbüßer bei der Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz im Deutschen Date: Friday, 24.06.2022 Time: 10-12 c.t. Location: IG 2.201 in person (Shortened) abstract: Im meinem Vortrag beschäftige ich mich mit der Frage, wie die Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz bei disjunktiven Koordinationen geregelt ist. Ich präsentiere Ergebnisse einer Akzeptabilitätsstudie, die sich im Design an Himmelreich und Hartmann (2021) orientiert, aber schwerpunktmäßig rein pronominale Subjekte berücksichtigt. Einflussfaktoren auf die Kongruenzverhältnisse sind u. a. die Abfolge von Kongruenzauslöser (Controller) und Kongruenzziel (Target) sowie Synkretismen, die die Kongruenzprobleme quasi auf morphologischer Ebene lösen. Mit Blick auf die grammatische Modellierung skizziere ich eine Analyse im Rahmen der Lexikalisch-Funktionalen Grammatik (LFG), die eine einfache Implementierung von sprachübergreifend validen Resolutionsregeln ermöglicht (Corbett 1983; Corbett 1983; Dalrymple und Kaplan 2000; Dalrymple 2001)....
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