Morpho-Syntax-Semantics Colloquium
Jointly organized by the morpho-syntax and semantics research groups (Doreen Georgi, Martin Salzmann, Malte Zimmermann)
Time and venue: Tuesdays, 14:15 - 15:45, Golm campus, Haus 14, room 0.09
Summer term 2025
April 22, 2025: Stanislao Zompì, University of Potsdam, "Two alternative analyses of English asymmetrical conditional inversion" (based on joint work with Enrico Flor)
April 29, 2025: Jeanne Lecavelier, University of Potsdam, and Carla Bombi, University of Potsdam, "Indonesian verbal marker meN- at the syntax-semantics interface"
May 6, 2025: Peter Sutton, University of Potsdam, "Organization name genitive DPs and reference to kinds" (join work with Kurt Erbach, Saarland University)
May 13, 2025: Jutta Hartmann, University of Bielefeld, "PCC Effects in German? New experimental data for ditransitives and identity sentences" (joint work with Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh)
May 20, 2025: Giuliano Armenante, University of Potsdam, "(Non-)Sequence of Tense in West Germanic: Case reopened"
May 27, 2025: Ksenia Ershova, University College London, "Inherent ergative case and the typology of external arguments"
June 3, 2025: Faruk Akkuş, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Lessons from complementizer agreement in Arabic varieties"
June 17, 2025: Elin McCready, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, "Indexicality and Somatics" (joint work with Christopher Davis, University of the Ryukyus)
June 24, 2025: Deniz Özyıldız, University of Stuttgart, "On treating embedded clauses as modifiers"
July 1, 2025: André Meinunger, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, "On expressions which cannot appear in the German 'pre-field'"
July 8, 2025: Giuseppe Varaschin, Humboldt University of Berlin, "Shifting slurs: Toward a unified account of definite slur-based nominals"
July 15, 2025: James Griffiths, University of Tübingen, "An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis"
Winter term 2024/2025
October 22, 2024: Irina Burukina, Eötvös Loránd University, "Adjunct clauses and clausal periphery''
October 29, 2024: Hedde Zeijlstra, University of Göttingen, "Universal paradigmatic gaps"
November 5, 2024: Rebecca Jarvis, University of Berkeley/University of Potsdam, "Theoretical and experimental approaches to Atchan embedded questions"
November 12, 2024: Vesela Simeonova, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, "Counterfactuality 2.0"
November 19, 2024 Masha Privizentseva, University of Potsdam, "Case and connectivity in Moksha relative clauses"
November 26,2024: Richard Faure, University of Tours, "Imposing the Question-Under-Discussion: On French crisis non-canonical questions"
December 3, 2024: Marcin Wagiel, Masaryk University in Brno/University of Wrocław, "Multiplicatives, verbal classifiers and event-external/internal quantification"
December 10, 2024: Giuliano Armenante, University of Potsdam, "Anankastic bare nouns"
December 17, 2024: Jenneke van der Wal, Leiden University, "Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited" (joint work with Patrick Kanampiu)
January 7, 2025: Johannes Hein, Humboldt University of Berlin/University of Potsdam, "On category-sensitive islands in Limbum"
January 14, 2025: Susi Wurmbrand, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, "Finite and non-finite tense dependencies—from syntax to the interfaces"
January 21, 2025: Dimitry Ganenkov, ZAS Berlin, "There is no ϕ-feature dependency in Obligatory Control"
Janaury 28, 2025: Andreas Kehl, University of Tübingen, "Experimental investigations into adjunct islands and what they (don’t) tell us about locality theory"
February 4, 2025: Nadine Bade, University of Potsdam
Summer term 2024
April 16, 2024: Lefteris Paparounas and Martin Salzmann, University of Quebec Montreal and University of Potsdam, "The syntax of Greek split reciprocals: Floating quantifier + anaphor"
April 23, 2024: András Bárány, University of Bielefeld, "Agreement in ditransitive constructions and at the syntax–information structure interface"
April 30, 2024: Paloma Jeretic, ZAS Berlin, "Derived modality in Ecuadorian Siona & consequences for the cross-linguistic picture"
May 7, 2024: Sebastian Walter, University of Frankfurt, "Gestures"
May 14, 2024: Peter Sutton and Hana Filip, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Düsseldorf, "Count/Mass Variation - Objects and the grammar of countability"
May 21, 2024: Frank Sode, Humboldt University of Berlin, "On the conditional nature of V2-clauses in preference reports: Evidence from tense, mood, and interpretation"
June 4, 2024: Jeanne Lecavelier, University of Potsdam, "Embedding questions without wh-embedding"
June 11, 2024: Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago, "The relation between head movement and periphrasis"
June 18, 2024: Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware, "Subjectless Readings of Again and Argument Structure"
June 25, 2024: Erik Zyman, University of Chicago, "Nakajima-Clefts as a Window onto Verb Phrase Structure"
July 9th, 2024: Magdalena Lohninger, University of Vienna, "The A’/A signature: Patterns in composite probing"
July 16th, 2024: Nina Haslinger, ZAS Berlin, "Structural asymmetries between precise and imprecise expressions: How pragmatics can constrain morphosyntax"
Winter term 2023/2024
October 24, 2023: Luke Adamson, ZAS Berlin, “Gender markedness and coordination resolution: On feature representation and ‘defaults'” (joint work with Elena Anagnostopoulou)
November 7, 2023: Andrew Murphy, University of Potsdam, "Case-Conditioned Allomorphy in Bidhaawyeet" (joint work with Bob Offer-Westort, University of Chicago)
November 14, 2023: Jun Chen, University of Stuttgart, "Exhaustivity from wh-questions and it-clefts – are they (really not) related?"
November 21, 2023: Carla Bombi, University of Potsdam, "Before and after the noun: Semantics for Spanish possessives and demonstratives"
November 21, 2023: Xinyi Gao and Andreas Hölzl, University of Potsdam, "The word order of oblique phrases in Sinitic languages of Hunan"
November 28, 2023: Alexandros Kalomoiros, University of Düsseldorf, "(A-)symmetries in presupposition projection, and what to do about them."
December 5, 2023: Nina Adam and Andreas Pregla, University of Potsdam, "The Role of Subjects in the VO/OV Dichotomy"
December 5, 2023: Jeanne Lecavelier, University of Potsdam, "The interaction of argument-encoding affixes and aspectual particles in Indonesian"
December 12, 2023: Andreas Pregla, Lena Borise, and Balázs Suranyi, University of Potsdam, University of the Basque Country, and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, "A unified prosodic account of two types of preverbal foci"
December 19, 2023: Agata Renans, University of Bochum, "Bare nouns in Ga"
January 9, 2024: Ari Joshi, University of Potsdam, "Reassessing the head injuries: are depth-charge sentences semantically ambiguous?"
January 16, 2024: Siena Weingartz, University of Manchester/University of Potsdam, "Comparatives in Ndebele (Bantu; Southern Africa): The exceed comparative puzzle"
January 23, 2024: Elisabeth Verhoeven, Humboldt University of Berlin, "The agent-focus form in Yucatec Maya - Disentangling sources of Variation"
January 30, 2024: Aron Finholt, University of Potsdam, "The relationship between BE and HAVE in Mashi"
February 6, 2024: Stanislao Zompi, University of Potsdam, "(*)ABA in multidimensional paradigms: A constraint-based approach"