Events

Upcoming events:

Past events:

Title: Comparing comparatives in English and Hindi: an argument against Type Economy. Abstract.  

Title: Transparent negation in dynamic semantics.  Abstract.

Title: A decomposed notion of Voice - Joint work with Iva Kovač and Magdalena Lohninger. Abstract.  

Title: Deriving cumulative readings of quantifiers from weak meanings for plurals. Abstract.

Title: Explanatory adequacy in dynamic binding.  Abstract.

Title: A third 'man'? -- On the German impersonal pronoun 'man' in speech reports. Abstract.

Title: Along came a Quantifier. The Interpretation of the German additive Particle auch (‘too, also’) inside (and outside) quantificational Structures. Abstract.

Description: This workshop aims to get researchers interested in the Terraling database, to familiarize them with the technology (so that they can carry out their own projects), and to pave the road for future projects making use of the database, thus also supporting further internationalcommunity building. 

The Terraling database (http://terraling.com/) is a collaborative research tool for theoretically guided cross-linguistic research: It is an open-access, open-ended database where linguists can both pose data questions to others and answer such questions for their native languages. The workshop will involve introductions to different aspects of the database, a `hands-on’ trial session for participants, short presentations of projects that have been carried out via the database and a discussion (including all participants) of potential future research projects building on the database. 

Registration:  To register for the workshop, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/p5mGFm6ik4NWK3yE8. We will send you the zoom link right before the workshop starts. As the workshop will involve all participants trying out the database, we ask you to sign up to the database beforehand (in case you don’t have an account yet). If you have registered in the past, but have not accessed the site recently, please go online and reset your password. Note that both  https://terraling.com (the new address) and https://test.terraling.com (the old address) reflect and update the same data.

PROGRAMME (all times are given in Central European Summer Time):

September 18

6 pm-6.20 pm: Introduction to the database (Hilda Koopman, UCLA)

6.20 pm-6.40 pm: A guided tour through the database

6.40 pm-7.10 pm: Try-out session (all participants, using break-out rooms)

7.10 pm-7.30 pm: Discussion (all participants)

7.30 pm-7.40 pm: Break

7.40 pm-8.25 pm: TerraLing and fieldwork (Ryan Bochnak, UBC)

8.25 pm-9 pm: Networking discussion (all participants)

September 19

6 pm-6.30 pm: Project presentation: SSWL (Cristina Guardiano, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia & Hilda Koopman, UCLA)

6.30 pm-7 pm: Project presentation: Conjunction and disjunction (Nina Haslinger, University of Göttingen & Viola Schmitt, University of Graz)

7 pm-7.30 pm: Project presentation: Universal 20 (Guglielmo Cinque, Ca’Foscari University, Venice)

7.30 pm-7.40 pm: Break

7.40 pm-8.30 pm: Property development and property writing  (includes a session on syntax, a session on semantics and a Q & A

session, will involve all participants)

8.30 pm-9 pm: Networking discussion (all participants)