Winter Term 2017–18

• October 18: NO SESSION
• October 25: Stavros Skopeteas (Göttingen) – Focus and resumption: Anyi, Baule, and microvariation in Kwa languages
  (joint work with Firmin Ahoua, Marie Laure Koffi Bla & Beatrice Koffi)
• November 1: George Walkden (Constance) – Preposition stranding in Early West Germanic
• November 8: Clemens Mayr (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin / Göttingen) – On the presuppositional requirements of alternative questions
• November 15: Hubert Truckenbrodt (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) – Wh-questions in Q-particle theory in German and Turkish
• November 22: NO SESSION (internal LinG meeting)
• November 29: Chris Reintges (Paris) – Spontaneous syntactic change: An anti-inertia approach
• December 6: NO SESSION (internal LinG meeting)
• December 13: Bożena Rozwadowska (Wrocław) – Valency in psych nominals
• December 20: [tba]
• January 10: Guido Mensching (Göttingen) – On another apparent violation of the subject-island constraint in French
• January 17: Cornelia Ebert (Berlin) – Post-speech gestures: semantic effects of gesture-speech alignment
• January 24: Jakub Dotlačil (Groningen) – Negation in Czech: How logical and syntactic constraints interact in licensing semantic concepts
• January 25 (Thursday, special session): Hadil Karawani (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) – MAY or MIGHT – Strength, duality and social meaning // Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin / HU Berlin) – Indicative and Subjunctive Conditionals as Operations on Commitment Spaces
• January 31: Sascha Alexeyenko (Göttingen) – Modeling quantification in event semantics: Evidence from habituals