Timetable for Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics, SoSe 2025
All meetings take place Monday, 16:15-17:45, in IG 3.201. Occasionally we might be on Zoom or have a speaker on Zoom. Please contact Frank Richter for access information to the online meetings. Members of the OLAT group of the seminar will receive the link in email.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 28.4. | Frank Richter | Welcome meeting, semester planning |
| 5.5. | Manfred Sailer | The Emperor-of-China construction: Inferred falsehood is not inferred negation |
| 12.5. | Frank Richter | Curricular planning (finalizing WiSe 25/26, organizing SoSe 26) |
| 19.5. | Jana Jordan | The negation of existential vs. generic indefinites |
| 26.5. | Janek Guerrini | Genericity as homogeneous adverbial quantification |
| 2.6. | Dirk Buschbom | Laying the data foundations for a machine learning classifier for NPIs (abstract) |
| 16.6. | Fenja Plate-Güneş | Influence of the syntactic function on the production of inverse negative scope in German |
| 23.6.. | Gert Webelhuth | Richard Futrell’s paper “Information-theoretic principles in incremental language production” |
| 30.6. | Roland Schäfer (Jena) | There’s no easy way out of underdetermination, esp. with wrong models |
| 14.7. | Iverina Ivanova | The effect of complexity on the choice of a complement structure in a subject position. A corpus-based study (abstract) |
| 21.7. | Frank Richter | Last orders in linguistics |