Recent Trends in Linguistic Research WiSe 2018/19

Timetable for “Recent Trends in Linguistic Research”

Winter Term 2018/19 (Tue 14:15-15:45, in IG 0.251)

Coordination: Katharina Hartmann & Manfred Sailer

Date	Speaker	Topic
16.10.	Xavier Villalba (Barcelona)	Infinitive wh-relatives in Romance and syncretism at the left periphery
23.10.	a. Heidi Klockmann b. Johannes Mursell	a. On periphrastic expressions of genericity: English ‘kind’, Dutch ‘soort’, and Polish ‘rodzaj’ b. Bundling φ- and δ-features: The impact of information structure on Agreement
30.10.	Gereon Müller (Leipzig)	How to account for conflicting structure assignments in syntax
6.11.	Jovana Gajić (Göttingen)	On the underlying structure of negative coordination and its (non-)at-issue content
13.11.		internal meeting
20.11.	Berthold Crysmann & Alain Kihm (Paris)	Apparent reversal in Old French declension
27.11.	Dianne Jonas	Thinking comparatively and diachronically. A comparative case study
4.12.	Monica Rizea (Bucharest) & Manfred Sailer	Intensifier readings of result clauses containing emphatic NPIs in Romanian
11.12.	a. Zheng Shen b. Katharina Hartmann	What we can learn from Multi-valuation Coordination and Verbal Morphology in Dagbani
18.12.		internal meeting
15.1.	Anja Latrouite (Düsseldorf)	Specificational predication and cleft-constructions
22.1.	a. Cecilia Poletto b. Volker Struckmeier (Bochum)	a. Are Italian left focalization AND cleft sentences monoclausal structures? A syntax-prosody interface approach b. Discourse functions and PF factors control ellipsis formation
29.1.	Bader, Portele & Schäfer	From word order to interpretation – effects of referential form on language production and comprehension
5.2.	a. Frank Kügler b. Nicolas Lamoure	a. Aspects of prosodic phrasing of pronouns in German b. Binding in DP coordination
12.2.		internal meeting

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