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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Talk by Kevin Tang (HHU Düsseldorf)

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk by Kevin Tang (HHU Düsseldorf) in the Phonology Colloquium. Title: Sentence prosody leaks into the lexicon: evidence from Mandarin Chinese Date: Wednesday, 15.06.2022 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: While the precise extent to which phrasal phonology interacts with word-level phonology is a long-standing issue, it is generally assumed that lexical phonology is at least somewhat independent of phrasal phonology, including intonation. Exemplar theory complicates this division, as phonetically detailed exemplars encode context-dependent prosody in the lexical representation (Pierrehumbert 2016). In line with this prediction, some evidence for the lexical encoding of intonation has been found in German and English, languages in which pitch accents are assigned at the phrasal level (Schweitzer et al. 2015). Schweitzer et al. showed that f0 contours are more stable in predictable collocations than in unpredictable collocations, suggesting a possible lexicalization of intonation. The current study probes this issue in Mandarin...
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Talk by Aremu, Hartmann, Himmelreich, Mursell (Frankfurt) in the Syntax Colloquium

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Daniel Aremu, Katharina Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, and Johannes Mursell (Frankfurt) in the Syntax Colloquium. The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301. Title: Morphological marking of focus in Mabia Date: June 13 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Abstract: In Mabia, focus is not marked by intonation but by focus particles and word order. We discuss the ex-situ and in-situ focus strategies in the four Mabia languages Dagbani, Dagaare, Likpakpaanl, and Kusaal. We demonstrate that some, but not all the languages provide morphological evidence for a low focus projection. Further we show that, despite the languages being closely related, the focus strategies differ a lot. We end with some speculations about how the strategies should be analyzed and end with some further questions....
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Talk by Markus Steinbach (Göttingen)

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Markus Steinbach (Göttingen) in the Semantics Colloquium. The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301. Title: Once there was a gesture – now there is a sign. On the grammaticalization of gestures in sign languages Date: June 9 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Abstract: Sign languages, like spoken languages, are subject to diachronic changes due to external and internal factors. Recent studies on grammaticalization in sign languages have shown that, for the most part, the attested grammaticalization paths from lexical expressions to grammatical markers are modality-independent. In addition to these well documented grammaticalization processes, sign languages can also integrate and grammaticalize manual and nonmanual gestures. This special property results from the gestural basis of sign languages and the fact that gestures use the same articulatory channel that is also active in the production of signs. The visual-gestural modality of sign languages thus offers the unique property of developing grammatical markers on basis of manual and nonmanual co-speech gestures. In this talk,...
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