Athens Semantics Group

Online

This online reading group aims at providing a platform for the presentation of research in formal semantics and allied fields. Due to its liberal time frame, the format is particularly suited for discussion of work in progress and programmatic projects. The platfom is Zoom and meetings are usually scheduled for Thursday or Friday, 5pm - 7pm (Athens time, UCT + 3; time zone differences and the attempt to avoid collusion with other events neccessitate some flexibility).

If you would like to participate, listen in or simply receive regular updates about our activities, please send a message to Winfried Lechner.

Fall 2020

December 18, 5:00pm (Athens time, UCT +3)

Frank Sode (Goethe University Frankfurt)

A semantics for complement fulfilling conditionals with "glad"

Previous talks

    • October 29. Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz).
      Another look at resumptive pronouns and RC ambiguity.

    • July 17. Nina Haslinger (Göttingen) and Viola Schmitt (Graz/Berlin). Identity and distinctness of belief objects.

    • June 25. Roumi Pancheva (USC).
      Two types of synthetic comparatives in the history of Slavic.

    • June 18. Stavros Skopeteas (University Göttingen), Firmin Ahoua, Marie Laure Koffi Bla Adou, Beatrice Koffi (Côte d'Ivoire).
      Focus resumption in Kwa languages.

    • May 21. Despina Oikonomou (HU Berlin).
      Subjunctive mood: Distribution puzzles cross- and intra-linguistically.

    • May 07. Rajesh Bhatt & Vincent Homer (Umass, Amherst).
      Differential Comparatives.

    • April 30. Giorgos Spathas (ZAS Berlin) & Dimitris Michelioudakis (Aristotelis University Thessaloniki).
      States in the decomposition of verbal predicates: evidence from additive operators.

    • April 09. Winfried Lechner (N&K University of Athens).
      Heim 2009: Roads to Rule I.

    • April 02. Nikos Angelopoulos (KU Leuven).
      A few notes on the Greek reflexive 'o eaftos mu'.