Oberseminar SoSe 2025

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

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