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