Events

Workshops and Compact Courses

Recent

• Compact course by Faruk Akkuş, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The case for case features in syntax and morphology (based on joint work with David Embick and Mohammed Salih)

(June 4-5, 2025)

• Compact course by Susi Wurmbrand, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg

The autonomy of syntax—Syntax as a mediator between PF and LF (January 15-17, 2025)

• Compact course by Gereon Müller, University of Leipzig

Harmonic Serialism (October 7-9, 2024)

• Compact course by Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware

Middles, impersonals, implicit arguments, and reflexive clitics (June 19-21, 2024)

Guests

2025

• James Griffiths, University of Tübingen, "An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis"

• André Meinunger, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, "On expressions which cannot appear in the German 'pre-field'"

• Faruk Akkuş, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Lessons from complementizer agreement in Arabic varieties"

• Ksenia Ershova, University College London, "Inherent ergative case and the typology of external arguments"

• Aleksandra Belkind, University of Leipzig, "Marked default case and case assignment: oblique themes in Kazym Khanty"

• Jutta Hartman, University of Bielefeld, "PCC Effects in German? New experimental data for ditransitives and identity sentences" (joint work with Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh)

• Andreas Pankau, Free University of Berlin, "The syntactic representation of ADDRESSEE – evidence from wh-drop in Berlin German"

• Andreas Kehl, University of Tübingen, "Experimental investigations into adjunct islands and what they (don’t) tell us about locality theory" 

• Ludger Paschen, ZAS Berlin, "Acoustic disambiguation of homophones in a multi-lingual corpus"

• Susi Wurmbrand, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, "Finite and non-finite tense dependencies—from syntax to the interfaces" 

2024

• Jenneke van der Wal, Leiden University, "Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited''

• Matt Hewett, Georgetown/UPenn, "The A-A'-distinction is categorial: The view from A-resumption in Arabic

• Hedde Zeijlstra, University of Göttingen, "Universal paradigmatic gaps"  

• Irina Burukina, Eötvös Loránd University, "Adjunct clauses and clausal periphery''

• Charles Yang, UPenn, "A null theory of movement"

• Gereon Müller, University of Leipzig, "A null theory of the A/A-bar distinction in syntax"

• Gert-Jan Schoenmakers, Utrecht University, "An experimental investigation of discourse-based claims about certain filler-gap dependencies" 

• Magdalena Lohninger, University of Vienna, "The A‘/A signature: Patterns in composite probing"

• Christos Vlachos, University of Patras, "Complement selection beyond the lexicon"

• Erik Zyman, University of Chicago, "Nakajima-clefts as a window onto verb phrase structure"

• Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware, "Middles, impersonals, implicit arguments, and reflexive clitics" 

• Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago, "The relation between head movement and periphrasis"

• Jozina Vander Klok, Humboldt University of Berlin, "On the structure of Javanese applicatives"

• Johannes Hein, Humboldt University of Berlin

• András Bárány, Bielefeld University, "Agreement in ditransitive constructions and at the syntax–information structure interface"

• Peter Culicover, Ohio State University, "Pied piping in English appositive relatives"

• Elisabeth Verhoeven, Humboldt University of Berlin, "The agent-focus form in Yucatec Maya - Disentangling sources of variation"

2023

• Luke Adamson, ZAS Berlin: "Gender markedness and coordination resolution: On feature representation and ‘defaults'” (joint work with Elena Anagnostopoulou) 

Recurring events

• Morphology-syntax-semantics colloquium

  • Weekly meeting of the morphology, syntax, and semantics research groups (Tuesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm)

  • Invited talks, presentations by faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students

• Morpho-Syntax Lab meeting (Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm)