Frühere Veranstaltungen (Linguistik Leipzig)

16.-18. Februar: Internationale Konferenz: Insular-kontinentale Wechselbeziehungen in der volkssprachigen Überlieferung des Frühmittelalters und ihre lexikographische Erschließung (organisiert von Hans Ulrich Schmid und Brigitte Bulitta) (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)

13. Februar, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Kiparsky (2012) on grammaticalization (GWZ H4 3.15)

6. Februar, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Discussion of Ortmann (2002): The morphological licensing of modifiers (GWZ H1 5.16)

6. Februar, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Levshina (2019) on a corpus-based word order study (GWZ H4 3.15)

5. Februar, 17:15h (IGRA Kolloquium): Talk by Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław): Puzzling existential, locative, and possessive constructions in Polish: Some reflections on phases, feature valuation, case assignment and edge features (GWZ H1 5.16)

30. Januar, 13:00h (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Irena Kurzová (Prague): Narrative technique of interlace in Middle Welsh prose (GWZ H1 2.10)

30. Januar, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Vortrag von Ilja Seržant (UNi Leipzig): “Makroareale Einflüsse auf die slavische Morphosyntax” (GWZ H4 3.15)

28. Januar, 18:00h (SPIGL): Adrian Leemann (Universität Bern): Potenzial und Tücken von Stimmcloning, Deepfakes, und Massendaten in der Soziolinguistik (GWZ H1 4.16)

23. Januar, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Lars Meyer (MPI-CBS Leipzig): Language Cycles: Bridging electrophysiology and big-data linguistics (GWZ H4 3.15)

22. Januar, 17:15h (IGRA Kolloquium): Talk by Shinichiro Ishihara(Lund University):  Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: An example from Stockholm Swedish (GWZ H1 5.16)

16. Januar, 13:00h (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Lena Seehausen (Leipzig University): The Vision of Adomnán/Fís Adamnáin (GWZ H1 2.10)

16. Januar, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Antonio Magaña (Leipzig University): Word order in Tojolabal (Mayan) (GWZ H4 3.15)

15. Januar, 13:15h (Slavistisches Forschungskolloquium): Vortrag von Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Das Ukrainische im wechselvollen 20ten Jahrhundert: Korpuslinguistische Studien zur Variation einer Standardsprache (NSG Raum 220)

15. Januar, 13:15h (IALT): Vortrag von Iñaki Zabaleta Gorrotxategi (Universität des Baskenlandes, San Sebastián): Wilhelm von Humboldt und die Vaskische Sprache (GWZ H4 5.16)

14. Januar, 18:00h (SPIGL): Vortrag von Maxi Kupetz (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Von Beendigungen, Übergängen und Anfängen: das prosodische und kinetische Design von okay in Unterrichtsinteraktion (GWZ H1 4.16)

14. Januar, 19:00h (IALT): Vortrag von Iñaki Zabaleta Gorrotxategi (Universität des Baskenlandes, San Sebastián): Wilhelm von Humboldt und die Vaskische Nation (NSG S104)

10. Januar, 15:00h: Talk by Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): A selectional criterion for adjunct control (GWZ H1 5.16)

9. Januar, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Talk by Barbara Stiebels (Leipzig University): Attitudinal object control predicates (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. Januar, 17:15h (IGRA Kolloquium): Talk by Laura Downing (University of Gothenburg): Separating tone realization from segmental realization in Chichewa verb paradigms (GWZ H1 5.16)

2020

19. Dezember, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Presentation by Mike Berger: tba (GWZ H1 5.16)

19. Dezember, 13:00h (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Lena Seehausen (Leipzig University): The Vision of Adomnán/Fís Adamnáin (GWZ H1 2.10)

17. Dezember, 18:00h (SPIGL): Vortrag von Lea Fricke (Universität Graz): Die Interpretation eingebetteter Fragen: Vier Einbettungsverben im experimentellen Vergleich (GWZ H1 4.16)

13. Dezember, 16:00h: Jens Hopperdietzel (HU Berlin): On resultatives with causative secondary predicates: Insights from Samoan verb serialization (GWZ H1 5.16)

12. Dezember, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Presentation by Jingting Ye: Property words in the world’s languages (GWZ H1 5.16)

12. Dezember, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Roberts (2017) on switch-reference constructions (GWZ H4 3.15)

11. Dezember, 17:15h (IGRA Kolloquium): Talk by Franc Marušič (U Nova Gorica): On the order of prenumeral adjectives (GWZ H1 5.16)

10. Dezember, 18:00h (SPIGL): Vortrag von Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): /vnd gesotten mit suͤss mandel oͤl/: Eine Untersuchung zum Deutschen als Wissenschaftssprache anhand des diachronen Kräuterkorpus RIDGES (NSG R 202)

5. Dezember, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Presentation by Mariá Sánchez: Pronouns of address in Colombian Spanish (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Dezember, 17:15h (Vorlesungsreihe Audiovisuelle Übersetzung): Vorträge von Guillermo Parra López (UPF Barcelona); Eduard Bartoll Teixidor (Uni Leipzig)

5. Dezember, 13:00h (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones (University of Wales): Dogfennu Iaith a Iaith Dogfen: Dadansoddi rhaglenni a chynnwys ffeithiol S4C (held in English: Welsh-language documentaries on S4C) (GWZ H1 2.10)

3. Dezember, 18:00h (SPIGL): Vortrag von Andrea Moshövel (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen): gee, welches du willt, an: Zur interaktiven Herstellung von Bedeutung in spätmittelalterlichen Versschwänken (Mären) (GWZ H1 4.16)

2.-3. Dezember 2019: Workshop “Iterativity in grammar“, organisiert von Jochen Trommer

28. November, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Presentations by Oke Hollesen: Negative concord (BA-Arbeit) & Luisa Grams: Privativkonstruktionen (BA-Arbeit) (GWZ H1 5.16)

28. November, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Special discussion session: “Linguistics research and the climate crisis” (on the occasion of the Global Day of Climate Action, November 29th) (GWZ H4 3.15)

21. November, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Presentation by Marie-Luise Popp: tba (GWZ H1 5.16)

21. November, 13:00h (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Sadananda Das (Leipzig University): Sanskrit and its revival in contemporary India (GWZ H1 2.10)

21. November, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Ian Joo (MPI-SHH Jena): Phonosemantics and tonosemantics (GWZ H4 3.15)

21. November, 17:15h (Vorlesungsreihe Audiovisuelle Übersetzung): Carme Manjiron Hevia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Die Übersetzung von Videospielen: Hauptmerkmale und Herausforderungen

19. November, 18:00h (SPIGL): Vortrag von Robert Mroczynski (Universität Leipzig): Nichtverstehen anzeigen im gesprochenen Deutsch (GWZ H1 4.16)

14. November, 11:15h (Typologiekolloquium & Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Manfred Krifka (HU Berlin): Layers of assertive clauses: Propositions, Judgements, Commitments, Acts (GWZ H1 5.16)

7. November, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Chappell & Creissels (2019) on the typology of predpossessive constructions (GWZ H4 3.15)

7. November, 17:15h (Vorlesungsreihe Audiovisuelle Übersetzung): Vorträge von Carsten Sinner (IALT Uni Leipzig) & Eduard Bartoll Teixidor (Uni Leipzig); Anjana Martínez (UPF Barcelona); Èlia Sala Robert (UPF Barcelona)

6. November, 17:15h: (IGRA Kolloquium): Stefan Keine (University of Southern California): Feature gluttony in the syntax of hierarchy effects (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. November, 18:00h (SPIGL): Vortrag von Sven Staffeldt (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) BEHAUPTEN als vollwertiger Sprechakt (GWZ H1 4.16)

30. Oktober, 11:15h: (IALT): Vortrag von Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux (Universidad de Buenos Aires/Instituto de Lingüística): Lenguas y procesos de integración en Latinoamérica: Perspectiva glotopolítica (GWZ H4 5.16)

30. Oktober, 13:15h: (IALT): Vortrag von Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux (Universidad de Buenos Aires/Instituto de Lingüística): Panhispanismo: Desplazamientos de la “unidad en la diversidad” al español general y a la regulación de la discursividad (GWZ H4 5.16)

24. Oktober, 13:00h (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Till Vogt (Leipzig University): The sociolinguistic situation of Lower Sorbian revisited (GWZ H1 2.10)

24. Oktober, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Sóskuthy & Roettger (2019), on vocative marking in the world’s languages (GWZ H4 3.15)

17. Oktober, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Wray & Grace (2007), on socio-cultural influences on lingistic form

10. Oktober, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Riesberg et al (2019), on symmetrical voice languages

26. September, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Presentations on open digital dictionaries: (1) The LiODi Project (Linked Open Dictionaries), by Monika Rind-Pawlowski & Maxim Ionov (Goethe University Frankfurt), and (2) the dictionary journal Dictionaria, by Iren Hartmann (Leipzig University)

21.-24. August 2019: Jahrestagung der Societas Linguistica Europaea, organisiert von Martin Haspelmath und Susanne Maria Michaelis (HS, NSG)

10. Juli, 17:15h: Mario Helm (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) Orthotypografie deutsch-spanisch kontrastiv (GWZ H5 5.16)

10. Juli, 17:15h: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Talk by Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (U Manchester): English /aɪ/-raising: new insights into an old problem (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Juli, 10:30h: Vortrag von Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena und Uni Leipzig): Weltweite Sprachenvielfalt: Beobachten, vergleichen und verstehen. (SAW, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1)

4. Juli, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Volker Gast (FSU Jena): Reflexivity, referential independence and epistemic validation (GWZ H4 3.15)

3. Juli, 17:15h: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Talk by Silke Fischer (U Stuttgart): Event Control (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Juli, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Vortrag von Lena Rosenbaum (Uni Leipzig): fuuuuuck zahnschmerzen: Zur Multifunktionalität expressiver Ausdrücke (GWZ H1 4.16)

1. Juli: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Talk by Adam Albright (MIT): Faithfulness, not phrasing: misapplication in Lakhota derivatives and compounds (GWZ H1 5.16)

1. Juli, 15:15h: (Integration und Sprache) Podiumsdiskussion (modiertiert von Susan Löffler): Status quo und Perspektiven, mit Claus Altmayer, Stojan Gugutschkow, Jürgen Ronthaler, Gero Vogl, Katja Hanisch (SAW, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1)

27. Juni, 11:15h: (Typologiekolloquium): Vortrag von Heike Wenzel: Struktur und Funktion von ῾Herz῾-Konstruktionen und -ableitungen im Sprachvergleich (GWZ H1 5.16)

27. Juni, 13:00-17:30h: Große Mock-Konferenz des IALT zum Thema Populismus (Neues Augusteum, DTA)

27. Juni, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Marie-Elaine van Egmond (University of Greifswald): Contact-induced morphological change in Anindilyakwa (Australia): Can polysynthesis survive in an urban environment? (GWZ H4 3.15)

24. Juni, 10:00-16:00h: Workshop Konstruktionsgrammatik(en), organisiert von Oliver Czulo (GWZ, Albrecht-Neubert-Raum, 5. Etage)

20. Juni, 11:15h: (Typologiekolloquium): Vortrag von Verena Siebeck: Scalar implicatures in cross-linguistic perspective (GWZ H1 5.16)

20. Juni, 13:15h: (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Sabine Asmus (Leipzig University): Results of Field Research on the Concept of Aspect in Welsh (GWZ H1 2.10)

19. Juni, 17:15h: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Talk by Eric Fuß (RUB Bochum): Wh-relatives in the history of German (and what gender’s got to do with it) (GWZ H1 5.16)

18. Juni, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Vortrag von Astrid Tuchen (Uni Leipzig): Tief bewegende Textbausteine: Kondolieren durch PolitikerInnen auf Twitter (GWZ H1 4.16)

17. Juni, 15:15h: Uwe Junghanns (Uni Göttingen): Wortstellung in slavischen Sprachen: Beobachtungen und Reflexionen (GWZ H5 4.16)

17. Juni, 15:15h: (Integration und Sprache) Dorothé Salomo (Uni Leipzig): Sprachliche Bildung in allen Fächern durch integrierters Sprach- und Fachlernen (Campus Augustusplatz, HS 10)

14. Juni, 9:15h-17:30h: Mini-conference organized by Olav Mueller-ReichauTurning Slavic Aspect inside out: A mini-conference for outsiders and insiders, with Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin), Jurica Polančec (Zagreb), Sergei Tatevosov (MSU Moscow), Olav Mueller-Reichau (Leipzig) (NSG, S 320 (morning session), GWZ, H5 4.16 (afternoon session)

13. Juni, 11:15h: (Typologiekolloquium): Vortrag von Kim Lawatsch: Lautemissionsverben als Bewerbungsverben im Sprachvergleich (GWZ H1 5.16)

13. Juni, 17:15h: Vortrag von Mikel Zalbide: Die königliche Akademie der Baskischen Sprache Euskaltzaindia: Ein Dutzend sprachsoziologischer Bemerkungen (HSG Augustusplatz, HS 15)

12. Juni, 17:15h: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Talk by Sergei Tatevosov (MGU Moscow): Direct, non-direct and sociative causatives at the syntax-morphology interface (GWZ H1 5.16)

6. Juni, 11:15h: (Typologiekolloquium): Vortrag von Leonie Weber: Semantischer Wandel auditiver Wahrnehmungsverben (GWZ H1 5.16)

6. Juni, 13:15h: (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Guillem Belmar Viernes & Eva J. Daussa (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): Intelligibility and receptive multilingualism / Minorities & multilingualism / Frisian (GWZ H1 2.10)

3. Juni, 15:15h: (Integration und Sprache) Katharina Franz (Uni Leipzig): Mehrsprachigkeit in Schule und Unterricht gestalten – mehr als nur ein Zusatzangebot?! (Campus Augustusplatz, HS 10)

29. Mai, 17:15h: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Talk by Jenny Audring (Leiden U): The texture of the lexicon (GWZ H1 5.16)

28. Mai, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Vortrag von Martin Reisigl (Uni Wien): Neue Erkenntnisse zur Geschichte des Diskursbegriffs (GWZ H1 4.16)

23. Mai, 13:15h: (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Eduard Werner (Leipzig University): An introduction to Sorbian for computer linguists (GWZ H1 2.10)

23. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Sansò (2018) on the diversity of antipassives (GWZ H4 3.15)

16. Mai: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine): Negation in Palenquero, Brazilian Portuguese, D.R. Spanish, etc: On the complex interface between morphosyntax and pragmatics (GWZ H4 3.15)

14. Mai, 18:00h: (SPIGL) Vortrag von Hans Ulrich Schmid (Uni Leipzig): Althochdeutsche Syntax zwischen Philologie und Linguistik (GWZ H1 4.16)

9. Mai, 13:15h: (Sorbian Studies Research Seminar): Talk by Leoš Šatava (University of Prague):  Ethnolinguistic situation of Aromanians (Vlachs) in Macedonia: Young people in Kruševo as an indicator of ethnic identity and attitude to the language (GWZ H1 2.10)

9. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Beavers et al. on state roots and change-of-state roots (GWZ H4 3.15)

2. Mai, 11:15h: (Typologiekolloquium): Talk by Marie-Luise Popp (Leipzig University): Context-sensitive affix ordering (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Chappell & Verstraete (2019) on optional and alternating case-marking (GWZ H4 3.15)

30. April, 18:00h: (SPIGL) Vortrag von Sebastian Seyferth (Uni Leipzig): Rhetorische Textmuster in Martin Luthers Schriften (GWZ H1 4.16)

25. April, 15:00h: Talk by Nicoletta Puddu (University of Cagliari, Italy): A morphological typology of reflexives (GWZ H4 3.15)

18. April, 11:15h: (Typologiekolloquium): Christine Marquardt: Participant Agreement in Panoan and beyond (GWZ H1 5.16)

16.-17. April: Workshop Dependency in  Syntactic Covariance, organisiert von Sandhya Sundaresan

4. April, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Gibson et al. on efficiency shaping language (GWZ H4 3.15)

19. März: Leipzig-Bremen workshop on grammatical universals and typology, organisiert von Martin Haspelmath

14. März, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Ksenia Shagal (University of Helsinki): Uralic syntax from an areal perspective

11. März, 11:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Terry Regier (University of California, Berkeley): Semantic typology and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in computational perspective

21. Februar 2019, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Nicklas Oranen (University of Helsinki): Valency alternations as comparative concepts: Problems and considerations (GWZ H4 3.15)

14. Februar 2019, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Steve Pepper (University of Oslo): The typology of associative relations in word-formation, metonymy and beyond (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Februar 2019, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Thomas Klein (Uni Bonn): Aus der Werkstatt der Mittelhochdeutschen Grammatik: Einige Bretter der dickeren Art (GWZ H 4 1.16)

7. Februar 2019, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Mikael Parkvall (University of Stockholm): Creole languages: Mixedness is not what it’s all about GWZ H4 3.15)

6. Februar 2019, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Rafael Abramovitz (MIT): Against the Richness of the Base: Two Koryak case studies (GWZ H1 5.16)

31. Januar 2019, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Rong CHEN (Universität Leipzig): Plural forms in the world’s languages (GWZ H4 3.15)

30. Januar 2019, 10:00h: Donca Steriade (MIT): Multiple bases and nominal accent in Ancient Greek (GWZ H1 5.16)

30. Januar 2019, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Nicholas Rolle (Princeton University): The road or the door to exponence? Examining simultaneity at spell-out (GWZ H1 5.16)

29. Januar 2019: Micro-Workshop on accent, with talks by Donca Steriade, Ludger Paschen, Sören Tebay, Jochen Trommer, Eva Zimmermann, Ezer Rasin, Joanna Zaleska, Nik Rolle (GWZ H1 5.16)

25. Januar 2019, 14:00h: Malte Zimmermann (and Mary Amaechi) (Universität Potsdam): (Colloquium): The event semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Igbo (Benue Congo)

24. Januar 2019, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Sabine Asmus (Uni Leipzig):  Results of field research on aspect in Welsh (GWZ H1 2.10)

23. Januar 2019, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Yuni Kim (U Essex): Blocking and correspondence in Huave vowel copy (GWZ H1 5.16)

22. Januar 2019, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Mirjam Schmuck (Uni Mainz): “Die hohe Rom”, “in der Kams” (Chemnitz): Zum Genus von Städtenamen diachron und diatopisch (GWZ H 4 1.16)

17. Januar 2019, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Kiparsky & Tonhauser (2012) on the semantics of inflection and markedness (GWZ H4 3.15)

10. Januar 2019, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Say (2014) on bivalent verb classes in the languages of Europe (GWZ H4 3.15)

9. Januar 2019, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Beata Moskal (Frankfurt): Vocabulary Insertion Initiation (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. Januar 2019, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Simon Pröll (LMU München): Stadt, Land, Fluss: Ballungsräume, weiße Flecken und (vermeintliche) Grenzen aus geostatistischer Perspektive (GWZ H 4 1.16)

3. Januar 2019, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Patrick McCafferty (Uni Leipzig):  A Celtic tale in Ancient Egypt (GWZ H1 2.10)

2018

20. Dezember 2018, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Mario Helm:  Aspekte der Berücksichtigung ethnischer Minderheiten im Rechtssystem Chiles (GWZ H1 2.10)

19. Dezember, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Peter Ackema (U Edinburgh): Processing differences between person and number: A view from feature theory (with Ad Neeleman, UCL) (GWZ H1 5.16)

13. Dezember, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): reading seminar, discussing Smith et al. (2018) on case and number suppletion in pronouns (GWZ H4 3.15)

12. Dezember, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Manfred Sailer (U Frankfurt/Main): Possessive alternations in German idioms (GWZ H1 5.16)

11. Dezember, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Reinhard Fiehler (IDS Mannheim/Uni Heidelberg): Altern, Kommunikation und Identitätsarbeit (GWZ H 4 1.16)

7. Dezember: Veranstaltung zum Institutsjubiläum (20 Jahre Institut für Linguistik), mit Vorträgen von Anke Holler (Uni Göttingen), André Meinunger (ZAS Berlin), Gerhard Jäger (Uni Tübingen), Kai Alter (U Newcastle), Anita Steube, Gerhild Zybatow (GWZ H1 5.16)

6. Dezember 2018, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Lena Seehausen (Uni Leipzig):  Apocryphical texts of the Irish Church (GWZ H1 2.10)

5. Dezember, 17:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Emily Clem (UC Berkeley): Cyclicity in Agree: Maximal projections as probes (GWZ H1 5.16)

29. November, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Diana Forker (Uni Jena): Elevation as a category of grammar: East Caucasian languages and beyond (GWZ H4 3.15)

27. November, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Peter Gallmann (Uni Jena): Im Deutschen gibt es einen Konjunktiv Präteritum (mehr) (GWZ H 4 1.16)

26. November, 15:15h: Talk by Constantin Freitag (Cologne and Konstanz) Verb-second from a processing prespective: What you see is not what you get (GWZ H1 5.16)

22. November, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Ielyzaveta Walther (Uni Leipzig): The Council of Europe and minorities in (higher) education: The case of Lower Sorbian and Kashubian (GWZ H1 2.10)

22. November, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Evseeva & Salaberri (2018) on ‘head’ reflexives (GWZ H4 3.15)

16. November, 16:00h: (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften): Ralph Ludwig (Uni Halle): Die frankokaribischen Kreolsprachen: Geschichte – Struktur – Ökologie (SAW Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1, Leipzig)

16. November, 16:00h (16:15h?): Talk by Itamar Kastner (HU Berlin): Inductive biases: The view from allomorphy (GWZ H1 5.16)

15. November, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Vladimir Panov (Moscow and Vilnius): Sentence-final and second position:  Understanding clustering grammatical elements beyond “clitics” (GWZ H4 3.15)

15. November, 16:15h: Vortrag von Christoph Gabriel (Uni Mainz): Zwischen Archaismus und kontaktinduziertem Wandel: Die Phonologie des Judenspanischen in Bulgarien (GWZ H1 3.16)

14. November: Workshop on language universals, typology and corpus-based research, organized by Michael Richter (Department of Computer Science) (Mediencampus Villa Ida, Poetenweg 28, Leipzig)

13. November, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Simon Meier-Vieracker: wir wissen heute – Inszenierung von Wissen im populärwissenschaftlichen Diskurs (GWZ H 4 1.16)

9. November: Workshop on Morphosyntactic Repair, organized by Philipp Weisser (Institut für Linguistik) (10: Bronwyn Bjorkman, 11: Andrew Murphy, 11:30: Martin Salzmann & Philipp Weisser, 13: Gereon Müller, 13:30: Gurujegan Murugesan, 14:10: Greg Kobele)

8. November, 11:15h: (IGRA colloquium): Bronwyn Bjorkman (Queen’s University, Canada): Against cross-clausal dependencies in tense (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. November, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Till Vogt (Uni Leipzig): Lower Sorbian corpus studies in search of current syntactic structures (GWZ H1 2.10)

8. November, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Jonathan Schlossberg (University of Newcastle, Australia): Factors influencing diversity in spatial referencing practices: Evidence from Marshallese (GWZ H4 3.15)

1. November, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by David Gil (MPI-SHH Jena): “Who is your name?” Between language contact and linguistic typology (GWZ H4 3.15)

25. Oktober, 13:15h: (Sorabistik Research Seminar): Eduard Werner (Uni Leipzig): Old Sorbian verbal art and historical linguistics (GWZ H1 2.10)

25. Oktober, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Natalia Levshina (Leipzig University): Corpus-based explanation of differential case marking (GWZ H4 3.15)

18. Oktober, 13:00h: Verteidigung der Dissertation von Laura Becker: “Articles in the world’s languages” (GWZ H4 4.15)

10.-11. Oktober: Workshop Multilingual frame semantics, organized by Oliver Czulo (IALT)

4. Oktober, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, on Helmbrecht et al. (2018) (argument coding of proper names) (GWZ H4 3.15)

27. September, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Jurica Polančec (University of Zagreb & Leipzig University): Investigating actionality from a cross-linguistic perspective (GWZ H4 3.15)

20. September, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, on Haig (2018) (grammaticalization of object pronouns) (GWZ H4 3.15)

13. September, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Matthias Urban (Uni Tübingen): Language and environment between ecological determinism and cultural diversity (GWZ H4 3.15)

23. August, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Dan Ke (Uni Leipzig): A data-based study on universals of nomification systems (GWZ H4 3.15)

2. August, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, on Fiedler et al. (2010) (subject focus in West African languages) (GWZ H4 3.15)

31. Juli- 4. August: Konferenz Sprache, Recht und Translation im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Veränderung, organisiert von Carsten Sinner (IALT)

18. Juli, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Eulalia Bonet (UA Barcelona) Absence of morphosyntactic features vs absence of exponents: Evidence from Northern Italian varieties (GWZ H1 5.16)

11. Juli, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Julie Ann Legate (University of Pennsylvania) Case relationships (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Juli, 15:15h: (Sorabistik): Priska Fronemann: Field research Irish Diaspora (GWZ H1 2.10)

5. Juli, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Vladimir Panov (Moscow and Vilnius): Sentence-final particles in Asia: Defining an area-bound typological concept (GWZ H4 3.15)

3. Juli, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Alfred Lameli (Marburg): Zur Komplexität des Einsilblers in den deutschen Dialekten (GWZ H1 4.16)

28. Juni, 11:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Pernilla Hallonsten Halling (Stockholm University): Adverb as a part of speech from a cross-linguistic perspective (Room: SFB Seminar Room 5.55, Nikolaistraße 10, 5th floor)

21. Juni, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Sonia Cristofaro (University of Pavia): From result-oriented typology to source-oriented typology: Implicational universals in diachronic perspective (GWZ H4 3.15)

19. Juni, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Rita Finkbeiner (Mainz): Warum After Work Clubs in Berlin nicht funktionieren: W-Überschriften im Deutschen zwischen Satztyp und Textsorte (GWZ H1 4.16)

13. Juni, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Peter Jurgec (University of Toronto) Slovenian palatalization consonant harmony and Agreement-by-Correspondence (GWZ H1 5.16)

7. Juni, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing de Swart & de Hoop (2018) on animacy shifts (GWZ H4 3.15)

7. Juni, 15:15h: (Sorabistik): Sabine Asmus & Eduard Werner (Uni Leipzig): Aspect – a grammatical category in Insular Celtic and Slavic? The case of Sorbian and Welsh (GWZ H1 2.10)

6. Juni, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam): Simultaneous phonetic and phonological processes: Degemination in Dutch and German (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Juni, 11:00hVortrag am MPI-CBS: Andrea Moro (Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia): Inner speech, generalized merge and the architecture of the language faculty (Stephanstraße 1a, Wilhelm Wundt Room (A400))

5. Juni, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Juliane Schröter (Uni Zürich): Argumentieren in der direkten Demokratie: Zu den TV-Ansprachen der Schweizer Regierung vor Volksabstimmungen (GWZ H1 4.16)

31. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Katarzyna Janic (Uni Leipzig): Marking of agent-patient, agent-recipient and agent-beneficiary coreference in a cross-linguistic perspective (GWZ H4 3.15)

30. Mai, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Coppe van Urk (QMU London) Constraining VP-fronting: The role of prosodic factors in Imere (GWZ H1 5.16)

29. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Matthew S. Dryer (University at Buffalo): The phonological basis of the analytic-synthetic-polysynthetic distinction (SFB Seminar Room 5.55, Nikolaistraße 10, 5th floor)

29. Mai, 17:15h: (SAW-Workshop Digital Humanities): Hans Goebl (Universität Salzburg): Die Sprachgeographie / géographie linguistique – quantitativ und digital beflügelt: Ein Blick in die romani(sti)sche Dialektometrie (SAW Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1)

29. Mai, 18:30h: (SAW-Workshop Digital Humanities) Thomas Krefeld (LMU München): VerbaAlpina – oder: Der Transfer der Geolinguistik in die Digital Humanities (SAW Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1)

24. Mai, 15:15h: (Sorabistik): Michael Rießler (Uni Freiburg) & Evgenia Zhivotova: Towards corpus-based sociolinguistic comparison of endangered languages in Germany, Russia, and Sweden (GWZ H1 2.10)

17. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Uli Reich (with Raúl Bendezú and Timo Buchholz) (FU Berlin): Evidentiality, epistemic modality and focus in Conchucos Quechua (GWZ H4 3.15)

15. Mai, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Émilie Caratini (Université de Poitiers) Deutsche Affrikaten: Analyse und Repräsentation (GWZ H1 4.16)

3. Mai, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Luraghi (2014) on metaphors as explanations of marker polysemies (GWZ H4 3.15)

27. April, 14:00-20:15h: Workshop on “Shrinking trees in morphology” (with Gereon Müller, Philipp Weisser, Karen De Clercq, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Jelena Stojkovic, Hyunjung Lee,  Irene Amato, Christina Dschaak, Johannes Englisch, Beata Moskal, Peter Smith, Andrew Murphy) (GWZ H1 5.16)
26. April, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Handschuh (2017) on the typology of case and definiteness of personal names (GWZ H4 3.15) 26. April, 15:15h: (Sorabistik): Peredur Lynch (University of Bangor): Basics of cynghanedd, incl. proest (GWZ H1 2.10)24. April, 11:00h: Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania): The learning of linguistic rules (MPI-CBS, Charlotte Bühler Room, C402)24. April, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Christian Forche (Uni Leipzig) Non-V2-Verben im Deutschen (GWZ H1 4.16)27. April, 14:00-20:15h: Workshop on “Shrinking trees in morphology” (with Gereon Müller, Philipp Weisser, Karen De Clercq, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Jelena Stojkovic, Hyunjung Lee,  Irene Amato, Christina Dschaak, Johannes Englisch, Beata Moskal, Peter Smith, Andrew Murphy) (GWZ H1 5.16)20.-21. April: Sprache und Kultur im digitalen Zeitalter: Eine Tagung der Philologischen Fakultät (mit Oliver Czulo, Martin Haspelmath, Norbert Schlüter, Beatriz Morales & Carsten Sinner, Stefan Welz, Eva Wöckener-Gade, Elisabeth Burr & Ulrike Fußbahn, Sabine Griese & Hedwig Suwelack, Uta Felten, Gereon Müller & Johannes Englisch, Beat Siebenhaar) (Bibliotheca Albertina)

19. April, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Natalia Levshina (Leipzig University): Linguistic diversity, evolution and information theory (GWZ H4 3.15)

12. April, 15:15h: (Sorabistik): Till Vogt: Word order and translation: Testament Nevez Hon Aotrou Jézuz-Krist and Nowy Testament (GWZ H1 2.10)

10. April, 18:00h: (SPIGL): Stefanie Jannedy (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin): Phonetisches Detail und soziale Bedeutung: Testfall Kiezdeutsch (GWZ H1 4.16)

5. April, 13:15h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Andrej Malchukov (University of Mainz): Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions: Issues in lexical typology (GWZ H5.3.16!)

5. April, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Steve Pepper (University of Oslo): Roots, affixes and the typology of binominal lexemes (GWZ H5.3.16!)

22. März, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Temperley & Gildea (2018), on minimizing syntactic dependency lengths (GWZ H4 3.15)

15. März, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Matthew S. Dryer (University at Buffalo): Why do languages have nouns and verbs? (GWZ H4 3.15)

1. März, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Berez-Kroeker et al. (2018), on reproducible research in linguistics (GWZ H4 3.15)

15. Februar, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar):  Reading seminar, discussing Georgakopoulos & Polis (2018), on the semantic map model (GWZ H4 3.15)

12. Februar, 17:30h: Peter Staroverov: Input restrictions and Tundra Nenets dorsals (GWZ H1 5.16)

9. Februar, 13:15h: Eric Baković (with Katherine Hout) (UC San Diego): Some consequences of different approaches to coalescence (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. Februar, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Universität Kiel): Complement clauses in Luruuli-Lunyara (Bantu) (GWZ H4 3.15)

7. Februar, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers University): DPs as complements to clause-taking predicates: constraints on reported speech events (GWZ H1 5.16)

1. Februar, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Tom Güldemann & Ines Fiedler (HU Berlin): Gender in Niger-Congo languages from a typological and historical perspective: A research project

30. Januar, 18:00h (SPIGL): Alexander Lasch (TU Dresden): Linguistik trifft Literaturwissenschaft: Maschinelle Autorschaftsanalyse (GWZ H1 4.16)

25. Januar, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey): Pluralia tantum nouns: Diversity meets the usual suspects (GWZ H4 3.15)

24. Januar, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Barbara Citko (University of Washington, Seattle) … (GWZ H1 5.16)

23. Januar, 18:00h (SPIGL): Max Frankowsky (Uni Leipzig): Nominale Reduplikation im Deutschen (GWZ H1 4.16)

22. Januar, 17:15h (IALT-Veranstaltungsreihe): Alexander Behrens: Softwarelokalisierung

17. Januar, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Ivy Hauser (UMass Amherst) Faithfulness based opacity in Harmonic Serialism (with Coral Hughto) (GWZ H1 5.16)

16. Januar, 11:15-12:45h (Sorabistik): Sabine Asmus (with support by Sven Grawunder) (Uni Leipzig): Three and two-variant sonorants in Welsh and their implications on its orthography (GWZ H1 2.10)

16. Januar, 18:00h (SPIGL): Diana Walther (Uni Leipzig): Textverarbeitung im Alter: Zum Zusammenhang von Textproduktion und Demenz (GWZ H1 4.16)

15.-16. Januar: International Workshop: Patterns of repetition in language use, organized by Beat Siebenhaar (uni Leipzig) & Elisabeth Stark (Uni Zürich)

15. Januar, 17:15h (IALT-Veranstaltungsreihe): Alexander Kurch: Barrierefreie Kommunikation im technologischen Zeitalter

11. Januar, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Nichols (2017) on person forms in a world-wide perspective.

8. Januar, 17:15h (IALT-Veranstaltungsreihe): Paul Schmidt: Translationssensible Autorenunterstützung

3. Januar, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Jerzy Rubach (University of Iowa) Derivational Optimality Theory from the perspective of Slavic Palatalization (GWZ H1 5.16)

2017

20. Dezember, 15:00-19:00h: Workshop on tough movement and modal passive (15:00h: Gereon Müller: Introduction; 15:30h: Ulrike Demske: How German lost tough movement;
17:00h: Marie-Luise Schwarzer: Towards a novel approach to German tough movement;
18:00h: Stefan Keine & Ethan Poole: tba) (GWZ H1 5.16)

19. Dezember, 11:15-12:45h (Sorabistik): Till Vogt (Uni Leipzig): Word order and translation: Testament Nevez Hon Aotrou Jézuz-Krist and Nowy Testament (GWZ H1 2.10)

15. Dezember, 14:00h: (Kolloquium Grammatiktheorie): Artemis Alexiadou (HU Berlin): Non-agreeing subjects in copular constructions (GWZ H1 5.16)

13. Dezember, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Andrea Sims (Ohio State University) Exploring interactions between directional syncretism and defectiveness (GWZ H1 5.16)

11. Dezember, 17:15h (IALT-Veranstaltungsreihe): David Maß & Kristian Kamph: Professionelle Übertitel im Theater: Technologien und Entwicklungen

7. Dezember 2017, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Reading seminar, discussing Norcliffe & Jaeger (2016), on head marking in Yucatec Maya relative clause production

5. Dezember 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Janek Paul Dann: Klassenbildung bei intransitiven Verben im Sprachvergleich (GWZ H1 5.16)

4. Dezember 2017, 17:15h (IALT-Veranstaltungsreihe): Wendy Fox: Integrierte Titel: Kreativität in Untertitelung und Forschung

1. Dezember 2017, 10:00-15:30h: (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften): Kolloquium “Sprache und Wissen: Phänomene und Ursachen von Ausbreitung“, Vorträge von Jörg Kärger, Gero Vogl, Anne Kandler, Angelika Berlejung, Hans Ulrich Schmid, Klaus Bochmann (GWZO, Reichsstraße 4)

1. Dezember 2017, 14:00h: (Kolloquium Grammatiktheorie): Gary Thoms (University of Glasgow): When does deletion happen? (GWZ H1 5.16)

28. November 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Johanna Meier-Grotrian: Verwendung von Artikeln in Lückentexten bei L2-Lernern (GWZ H1 5.16)

27. November 2017, 17:15h (IALT-Veranstaltungsreihe): Jean Nitzke: “Das hätte ich ohne MÜ aber schneller übersetzt”: Methoden der Translationsprozessforschung und ihre Anwendung in der empirischen Post-Editing-Forschung

23. November 2017, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar):Natalia Levshina: (Leipzig University): Linguistic universals in the time of corpora

21. November 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Anna Thomas (Uni Leipzig): Morphosyntax des Pfälzischen (GWZ H1 5.16)

16. November 2017, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Henrik Liljegren (Stockholm University): Gender and animacy in the areal typology of the Hindukush (SFB Seminar Room 5.55, Nikolaistraße 10, 5th floor)

14. November, 11:15-12:45h (Sorabistik): Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha (National University of Ireland, Galway): Language contact and loanwords to and from Irish (GWZ H1 2.10)

14. November, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Irene Amato & Hyunjung Lee (Uni Leipzig): Suppletion in Korean (GWZ H1 5.16)

10.-11. November: Workshop on Strength in grammar (organized by Jochen Trommer and Eva Zimmermann)

8. November, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Pavel Caha (Masaryk University of Brno): How (not) to derive a *ABA: The case of Blansitt’s generalisation (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. November, 20:00h: Tomer Gardi: Broken German. Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, Wächterstraße 34

7. November, 18:00h (SPIGL): Frank Liedtke (Uni Leipzig): Interjektionen und ihre Analyse (GWZ H1 4.16)

9. November, 15:00h (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Péter Maitz (Uni Augsburg): Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German): Zur Kreoltypikalität einer deutschbasierten Kreolsprache (GWZ H4 3.15)

3. November, 14:00h: (Kolloquium Grammatiktheorie): Anke Himmelreich (Uni Leipzig): Zur Komplexität syntaktischer Ableitungen (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. November, 15:00h: (Diversity Linguistics Seminar): Talk by Dan Ke (Uni Leipzig): A data-based study of gender universals (GWZ H4 3.15)

27. Oktober, 14:00h: (Kolloquium Grammatiktheorie): Gereon Müller (Uni Leipzig): Gradiente Repräsentationen in der Syntax (GWZ H1 5.16)

24. Oktober, 18:00h (SPIGL): Katja Barnickel (Uni Leipzig): Trinken Sie lieber aus der Gute-Laune-Tasse oder aus der Guten-Laune-Tasse? Zur Kasuskonkordanz in deutschen A-N-N-Komposita (GWZ H1 4.16)

27. Oktober, 8:30-18:00h: Leipziger Symposium zur interdisziplinären Fachkommunikations- und Translationsforschung, organisiert vom NSG S420)

26. Oktober, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar: Stolz et al. (2017) on the diachrony of spatial interrogatives

19. Oktober, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Christian Lehmann (Universität Erfurt): Relative clauses in Cabecar (a Chibchan language of Costa Rica)

13. Oktober, 14:00hRobert Frank (Yale University) Attention hungry subjects and clause-boundedness effects (joint work with Matt Barros) (GWZ H1 5.16)

12. Oktober, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar: Malchukov (2016), on markedness in valency change

2. Oktober, 10:15h: Andrew Nevins (UCL London): Paucity: where is the upper bound? (joint work with Paul Marty, ZAS) (GWZ H1 5.16)

27. September, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki): Multiple sources of variation in case marking

28. September, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Laura Becker (Leipzig University): Articles across the world’s languages

15. September, 15:00h (Freitag!): Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Seržant & Magaña (2017): Argument realization in Tojolabal (Mayan): A corpus-based approach

21. September, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Ye Jingting (Leipzig University): Independent and dependent possessive person forms: A cross-linguistic study

1. September, 15:15h: talk by James Griffiths (Konstanz University): Beyond MaxElide: An investigation of extraction out of ellipsis domains (GWZ H1 5.16)

31. August, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena & Leipzig University): Role-reference association and form-frequency correspondence: An attempt at unifying monotransitive and ditransitive argument coding splits and alternations

24. August, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Karolin Obert (Universidade de São Paulo): Are there serial verb constructions in Dâw (a Nadahup language of Brazil)?

17. August, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading  seminar, discussing Regier et al. (2016) on words for snow

27. Juli, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Zwarts (2010) on the encoding of direction in flags

20. Juli, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Reinöhl & Himmelmann (2017) on renewal

20. Juli, 13:00-19:00h: Workshop on strata, organized by Jochen Trommer (GWZ H1 5.16)

19. Juli, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University) Typologies as fitness landscapes: Modeling word order change (GWZ H1 5.16)

17. Juli, 14:30h: Sampson Korsah (Uni Leipzig): Issues in Kwa syntax: Pronouns (dissertation defense) (GWZ H4 4.15)

12. Juli, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Dunstan Brown (University of York) Morphological complexity as a compromise between lexicon and grammar (GWZ H1 5.16)

6.-7. Juli: Linguistic Annotation and Philology Workshop, organized by Giuseppe Celano (Digital Humanities, Leipzig University)

6. Juli, 11:15h: (Sorabistik): Julia Bischoffberger: Person hierarchy and direction in local configurations in Guarayu verb agreement (GWZ H1 2.10)

6. Juli, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Berdcevskis & Semenuks on morphological simplification

5. Juli, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Martin Haspelmath, Gereon Müller & Barbara Stiebels: Discussion on “dependent case” (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Juli, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Ad Neeleman (University College London, joint work with Peter Ackema): Anonymous person features (GWZ H1 5.16)

4. Juli, 18:00h (SPIGL): Matthias Richter (Uni Leipzig): Verbprojektionsanhebung in deutschen und niederländischen Varietäten (GWZ H1 4.16)

28. Juni, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Roberto Herrera Miranda: Valency classes in Maleku (Chibchan) (GWZ H1 5.16)

27. Juni, 18:00h (SPIGL): Diana Walther (Leipzig): Textverarbeitung im Alter: Zum Zusammenhang von Textproduktion und Demenz (GWZ H1 4.16)

26. Juni, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): guest presentation: Jereon Breteler on Japanese pitch accent

22. Juni, 13:15h: Frauke Berger (Uni Potsdam): Children’s understanding of auch (‘too’) under experimental conditions: The impact of experimental task und context requirements (GWZ H1 5.16)

22. Juni, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Christoph Holz (Universität Leipzig): Numeral classifiers don’t individuate: A usage-based approach

21. Juni 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Janina Dräger: Lexikalischer Vergleich in slavischen Sprachen (GWZ H1 5.16)

21. Juni, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Anke Holler (Uni Göttingen) Salience in corpora? Scrutinizing the ecological validity of the so-called implicit causality bias (GWZ H1 5.16)

21. Juni, 17:15h (ITT Lecture): Susan Gass (Michigan State University): Learning to listen: To caption or not (Neuer Senatssaal, Ritterstraße 26)

16. Juni, 11:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15):  Talk by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (Uni Köln): Universals of Language 3.0

15. Juni, 11:15h: (Sorabistik):  Eduard Werner: Aspect and performativity in Sorbian (GWZ H1 2.10)

15. Juni, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Katerina Stathi (Universität Bonn): Granularity: Semantic specificity and generality across languages

14. Juni, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Laura Kalin (Princeton University) tba (GWZ H1 5.16)

13. Juni, 15:15h (Vortragsreihe Linguistik im digitalen Zeitalter): Marco Coniglio (Universität Göttingen): Historische Korpora zwischen Theorie und Praxis (HS 17) (15:15-16:45 Uhr (Vortrag) & 17:15-18:45 Uhr (Übung))

13. Juni, 18:00h (SPIGL): Astrid Tuchen (Leipzig): Wörtliche und übertragene Bedeutung im Rahmen der experimentellen Pragmalinguistik (GWZ H1 4.16)

8. Juni, 13:15h: Agata Renans (Ulster University): Accounting for inferences of pluralized count and mass nouns: Evidence from Greek (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. Juni, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Koplenig et al. (2017) on the statistical trade-off between word order and word structure

7. Juni 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Sascha Tomesch: Interaktion von Negation und TMA in Kreolsprachen

2. Juni, 14:00h: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts): QR and Hydras (GWZ H1 5.16)

1. Juni, 11:15h: (Sorabistik): Evgenia Zhivotova: Coordination and subordination in Kildin Sámi and Bystraya Even under the influence of Russian (GWZ H1 2.10)

1. Juni, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Holger Diessel (Uni Jena): Introducing the grammar network

31. Mai 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Kitty Bui: Segen und Flüche im Sprachvergleich (GWZ H1 5.16)

31. Mai, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago) Is Basque an ergative language? (GWZ H1 5.16)

30. Mai, 18:00h (SPIGL): Mailin Antomo (Uni Göttingen): Konzessivsätze mit obwohl in der gesprochenen Sprache (GWZ H1 4.16)

29. Mai, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Suzuki (1998) A typological study of dissimilation

24. Mai, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Ezer Rasin (MIT) An argument for severing stress from phonology (GWZ H1 5.16)

23. Mai, 18:00h (SPIGL): Ludwig Eichinger (IDS Mannheim): Was gesprochene Sprache ausmacht: Bemerkungen aus System-Sicht (GWZ H1 4.16)

22. Mai, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Rasin (2016): Morpheme structure constraints and blocking in nonderived environments

18. Mai, 11:15h: (Sorabistik): Sabine Asmus & Sven Grawunder: Language structuring consonant mutation in Welsh (and Irish) (GWZ H1 2.10)

18. Mai, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Cormac Anderson (MPI-SHH Jena): Descriptive categories and comparative concepts in phonology

16. Mai, 15:15h (Vortragsreihe Linguistik im digitalen Zeitalter): Peter Meyer (IDS Mannheim): Lexikalisch-lexikografische Onlineangebote des IDS (HS 17) (15:15-16:45 Uhr (Vortrag) & 17:15-18:45 Uhr (Übung))

15. Mai, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Kaplan (2015)

15. Mai, 17:00h: (Lecture series Ethnologie/Afrikanistik): Monica Heller (University of Toronto): Can language be commodified? (HS Hörsaal 4)

11. Mai, 13:15h: Talk by Kazuko Yatsushiro (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin): German determiner presuppositions in first language acquisition (GWZ H1 5.16)

11. Mai, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Hendriks et al. (2015), on reflexives in Dutch and German

10. Mai, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Emily Elfner (University of British Columbia) Re-examining default-to-opposite stress in Kwak’wala: An approach using Harmonic Serialism (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. Mai, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Hyunjung talks avout her current work

4. Mai, 11:15h: (Sorabistik): Till Vogt: The use of in Breton as displayed in Breton grammar books (GWZ H1 2.10)

4. Mai, 13:15h: Antje Sauermann (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) Impact of type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order in German (GWZ H1 5.16)

4. Mai, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Thomas Stolz (Uni Bremen): Coding complexity in spatial interrogatives (Zu- und abnehmende Kodierungskomplexität: Der Fall der räumlichen Interrogativa)

3. Mai, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Stefan Gries (UC Santa Barbara & Universität Leipzig, Leibniz-Professor) Operationalizations of domain-general mechanisms cognitive linguists often rely on: A perspective from quantitative corpus linguistics (GWZ H1 5.16)

27. April, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Koontz-Garboden (2005) on the typology of state/change of state alternations

26. April 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Nico Benz: Differentielle Subjektmarkierung in Ryūkyū-Sprachen (GWZ H1 5.16)

26. April, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Mira Grubic (Uni Leipzig): Definiteness and Indefiniteness in Ngamo (West Chadic)

24. April, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Kaisse (1990): Toward a typology of postlexical rules

20. April, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Ilka Wild (University of Erfurt): The Kanakanavu language, an Austronesian language of Taiwan: Selected topics

25. April, 15:15h (Vortragsreihe Linguistik im digitalen Zeitalter): Roland Schäfer (FU Berlin): Linguistische Forschung mit Webkorpora (HS 17) (15:15-16:45 Uhr (Vortrag) & 17:15-18:45 Uhr (Übung))

19. April, 11:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Pulleyblank (1986): Tone in Lexical Phonology

19. April, 17:00h: Antrittsvorlesung Leibniz-Professur: Stefan Gries (UCSB & Universität Leipzig): On the role and use of quantitative methods in linguistics (Bibliotheca Albertina)

12. April 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Lektüre von Lektüre von Srinavasan & Rabagliati (2015) zu “How concepts and conventions structure the lexicon: Cross-linguistic evidence from polysemy” (GWZ H1 5.16)

11. April, 18:00h (SPIGL): Paul Cibulka (Berlin): Handbewegungsphasen als interaktionelle Ressource in Laut- und Gebärdensprache (GWZ H1 4.16)

10. April, 16:50h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Pitch Talk “Tone allomorphy in Bari”, Kiparsky (2015) on Stratal OT

6. April, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Siegel (2016), on contact-induced change in Melanesia

30.-31. März 2017: Workshop Challenges of Electronic Dictionary Publication 2.0, organisiert von Iren Hartmann

28.-29. März 2017: Konferenz “Vielfaltslinguistik“, organisiert von Martin Haspelmath & Iren Hartmann

23. März 2017, 11:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Aina Urdze (University of Bremen): Coding asymmetries in tense marking world-wide: A preliminary report

17. März 2017, 16:45h: Vortrag von Uwe Junghanns (Uni Göttingen): Rekursivität in der Sprache (und Mutmaßungen zur Musik) (im Rahmen des Kolloquiums “Logik und musikalische Regeln“, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1)

16. März 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Lehmann (2012) on converse categorization strategies

2. März 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Kurumada & Grimm (2017), on optional plural marking and efficient coding.

23. Februar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena & Leipzig University): Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale

16. Februar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Koch (1995), on the diachronic creation of morphological zeros

13. Februar, 14:00-17:00h: Mini-workshop on superiority: 14:00h: John Bailyn (Stony Brook University): Multiple Wh and superiority in Bulgarian and Russian 15:30h Fabian Heck (Uni Leipzig): Superiority and nonmonotonic derivations 16:15h: Andrew Murphy (Uni Leipzig): Multiple left branch extraction and superiority

10. Februar 2017, 9:00h-18:40h: Ehrenkolloquium für Gerhild Zybatow: Vorträge von Uwe Junghanns, Anita Steube, Luka Szucsich, Roland Meyer, Klaus Abels, Ludger Paschen, Imke Driemel, Jelena Stojković, Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Barbara Stiebels, Zorica Puškar, Yurij Kushnir, Andrew Murphy, John F. Bailyn, Tobias Scheer, Markéta Ziková (Vortragssaal der Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6)

9. Februar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Lewis & Frank (2016), on word length and conceptual complexity

8. Februar 2017, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Ryan Bochnak (Uni Leipzig): t.b.a. (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Februar 2017, 13:00h-14:30h: Sandhya Sundaresan (Uni Leipzig): Monstrous agreement (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Februar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Kurumada & Jaeger (2015) on communicative efficiency and optional case-marking in Japanese

1. Februar 2017, 11:00h: Sabine Asmus (Uni Leipzig, Sorabistik): Basics of VSO-driven uses of Welsh “central pronouns” (GWZ H2 0.10)

1. Februar 2017, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Draga Zec (Cornell University): Interactions between tone and stress: a typology of their convergence and separation (GWZ H1 5.16)

26. Januar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Natalia Levshina (Uni Leipzig): Economy, iconicity and productivity: a typological study of causative constructions

25. Januar 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Julia Bischoffberger (Uni Leipzig): Body part expressions und possession im Guarayu (GWZ H1 5.16)

24. Januar 2017, 18:00h (SPIGL): Gabriele Waxenberger (LMU München): Die Bedeutung der Runenüberlieferung für die Vor- und Frühgeschichte germanischer Sprachen (GWZ H1 4.16)

19. Januar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Urban (2011) on lexical-semantic change and asymmetrical marking

18. Januar 2017, 11:00h: Till Wojto (Uni Leipzig, Sorabistik): Language struggle: The concepts of “neo-speaker varieties” and “learner’s languages” under scrutiny (GWZ H2 0.10)

18. Januar 2017, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Nico Benz (Uni Leipzig): Pattern Borrowing auf den Ryūkyū-Inseln (GWZ H1 5.16)

18. Januar 2017, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego): Implicative organization in grammar systems:  Word structure, paradigm organization and learnability (GWZ H1 5.16)

12. Januar 2017, 13:15h: Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin): Approximators as polarity items: empirical findings (GWZ H1 5.16)

12. Januar 2017, 15:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Ilja Seržant (Uni Leipzig): Two developmental paths of Differential Object Marking

11. Januar 2016, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Matás Guzmán Naranjo (Uni Leipzig): t.b.a. (GWZ H1 5.16): Inflection classes in Tundra Nenets and Spanish

11. Januar 2017, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Jenneke van der Wal (Harvard University): The AWSOM and RANDOM in Bantu object marking (GWZ H1 5.16)

4.-6. Januar 2017: Studentische Konferenz “25th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe“, organisiert von den IGRA-KollegiatInnen

8. Dezember 2016, 15:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Julia Bischoffberger (Uni Leipzig): Agreement and reference in Guarayu (Tupian; Bolivia)

7. Dezember 2016, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Sören Worbs (Uni Leipzig): Morphotonological variation in Papuan languages (GWZ H1 5.16)

7. Dezember 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Determiner omission in PPs (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Dezember 2016, 10:30h-14:30h: Kolloquium Sprechen und Schreiben III, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1

1. Dezember 2016, 15:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH & Leipzig University): Coding asymmetries and predictability: An overview of the goals of the “Grammatical Universals” project

28. November 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Elena Stojković on Zec (2002)

23. November 2016, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Christine Marquardt (Uni Leipzig): Diathesealternationen in syntaktisch beschränkten Kontexten (MA-Arbeit) (GWZ H1 5.16)

23. November 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Jonathan Bobaljik  (University of Connecticut): Features, structure, and morphological universals (GWZ H1 5.16)

22. November 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Diana Walther (Uni Leipzig): Doing Youth – Zur Erweiterung einer Theorie der Jugendsprachforschung (GWZ H1 4.16)

21. November 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Burkhardt (2001)

17. November, 15:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Natalia Levshina (Leipzig University): Universal functional motivations and probabilistic grammar: Bayesian mixed-effect regression models of help + (to) Infinitive in varieties of web-based English

15. November 2016, 17:15h: Talk by Julie Ann Legate (U Penn): On Mark Baker’s approach to dependent case (GWZ H1 5.16)

14. November 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Hyman (1979)

11. November 2016, 14:00h: Talk by Patrick Elliott (UCL/ZAS): Ellipsis and semantic identity redux: A (re)evaluation of the empirical landscape (GWZ H1 5.16)

10. November, 15:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Plank (2015)

9. November 2016, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Mike Berger (Uni Leipzig): Modusselektion im Sprachvergleich (MA-Arbeit) (GWZ H1 5.16)

9. November 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary University of London): Person features are operations, not predicates (GWZ H1 5.16)

8. November 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Timo Ahlers (Uni Wien): Varietätenkontakt im Labor: Wie norddeutsche Sprecher mit syntaktischen Varianten des Bairischen umgehen (GWZ H1 4.16)

7. November 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Yuriy Kushnir on Blevins (1993)

3. November, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Lestrade (2013)

2. November 2016, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Laura Becker (Uni Leipzig): Definiteness in languages with and without articles  (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. November 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Juliet Stanton (MIT): Non-myopia in Gurindji and beyond: implications for the phonological grammar (GWZ H1 5.16)

1. November 2016, 13:15h: Eva Csipak (University of Konstanz): Some remarks on the acquisition of conditionals (GWZ H1 4.16, Fakultätsraum)

1. November 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Anna Volodina (IDS Mannheim & Uni Leipzig): Konnektoren – Korpus – Diskurs (GWZ H1 4.16)

27. Oktober 2016, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Patrick Steinkrüger (HU Berlin): The typology of Romance languages: An intragenetic approach

26. Oktober 2016, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Barbara Stiebels (Uni Leipzig): Control nominals (GWZ H1 5.16)

25. Oktober 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Patrick Brandt (IDS Mannheim): zu-infinite vs. dass-finite Komplemente: Variation, Korpus, und Grammatik (GWZ H1 4.16)

24. Oktober 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Kiparsky (2003)

20.-22. Oktober 2016: Konferenz Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS), organisiert vom Institut für Linguistik

13.-15. Oktober 20167. Kolloquium des Forums Sprachvariation der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), organisiert von Luise Czajkowski, Matthias Hahn, Anja Schaufuß

13. Oktober, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Fauconnier (2011)

12. Oktober 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Andrew Kostakis (Leipzig U): t.b.a. (GWZ H1 5.16)

17. Oktober 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): making a plan for the upcoming semester

10. Oktober 2016: Workshop on Shrinking Trees, organisiert von Gereon Müller, mit Vorträgen von Howard Lasnik, Gereon Müller, Susi Wurmbrand, David Pesetsky, Andrew Murphy, Caterina Donati, Fabian Heck, Katja Barnickel (Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6)

6. Oktober, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Creissels (2017).

4.Oktober, 16:00-17:30h: Talk by Roswitha Kersten-Pejanic: Gender and language: Demands, possibilities and limitations for fair language use (GWZ H1 5.16)

29. September, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Vortrag von Elisabeth Verhoeven (HU Berlin): Argument alternations and linearization: A cross-linguistic corpus study (Abstract)

26.-29. September 2016: Konferenz “Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Hispánica de Leipzig” (Internationale Konferenz für Hispanische Linguistik), organisiert von Carsten Sinner

22. September, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Blasi et al. (2016), on universal sound-meaning associations (sound symbolism).

15. September, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Reading seminar, discussing Kiparsky (2008), on universals, typological generalizations and diachrony.

8. September, 14:00h:  Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Jakob Neels (Leipzig U): Frequency-effect explanations of grammaticalisation: Can we count on them?

25. August 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Susanne Maria Michaelis (Leipzig U): World-wide comparative evidence for calquing of valency patterns in creoles

18. August 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Antonio Magaña (Leipzig U): Little-v agreement in Tojolab’al (Mayan, Mexico)

11. August 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode (Leipzig U): Report on a cross-linguistic study of complement clauses and complementation  systems

4. August 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Natalia Levshina (Leipzig U): Frequency, predictability and grammatical asymmetries: Evidence from Google n-grams

28. Juli 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Plag & Balling (2016), on fundamental issues of derivational morphology

21. Juli 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Brown et al. (2013), on plural marking and frequency

14. Juli 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Kirby et al. (2008), on cultural evolution in the lab

11. Juli 2016, 9:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Iren Hartmann & Yuriy Kushnir on Ho-Chunk

8.-9. Juli 2016: IGRA Workshop on Replicative Processes, organisiert vom Graduiertenkolleg IGRA.

7. Juli 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Singh & Ford (2003), on whole word morphology

6. Juli 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Douglas Pulleyblank (University of British Columbia): Emergent Phonology: Inter-morpheme relations and derived environment effects (GWZ H1 5.16)

5. Juli 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Brigitte Bulitta (SAW Leipzig) Das althochdeutsche Wörterbuch in Leipzig – Einblicke in Programm und Arbeitsfeld (GWZ H1 4.16)

4. Juli 2016, 14:00h: Öffentliche Verteidigung der Dissertation von Michael Baumann: Die Repräsentation von Argumentstrukturinformationen und ihre Rolle in der Satzproduktion (GWZ H5 3.16)

1. Juli 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Zorica Puškar (U Leipzig): Dependent case in Serbian (GWZ H1 5.16)

30. Juni 2016, 13:15h: (Romanistik): Swintha Danielsen (U Leipzig): Sprach-Revitalisierung in Bolivien: Die Arbeit linguistischer Dokumentationsprojekte der Universität Leipzig (GWZ H1 3.15)

30. Juni 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Schwarz (2013), on two types of definite articles

28. Juni 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Hanna Jaeger (Uni Leipzig) Normenemergenz in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (GWZ H1 4.16)

24. Juni 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Martina Martinović (U Leipzig): The Syntax/Post-Syntax Interface (GWZ H1 5.16)

23. Juni 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Moskal (2015), on nominal suppletion

22. Juni 2016, 10:00h: Damián Blasi (Uni Zürich): What quantitative methods can do for the study of cross-linguistic patterns (GWZ H5 3.16)

22. Juni 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh): Formalizing syntactic theories model-theoretically: What it involves, and why it is a good idea (GWZ H1 5.16)

21. Juni 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Sandra Döring (Uni Leipzig) Linguistik & Schule – Ein Arbeitsbericht (GWZ H1 4.16)

16. Juni 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Newmeyer (2016), on island constraints

15. Juni 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Uni Trier): Emergent generalisation in an analogy-based theory of word-formation: predictions, evidence, and challenges (GWZ H1 5.16)

14. Juni 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Irmtraud Behr (Paris) Über Existenzialsätze (GWZ H1 4.16)

9. Juni 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Ilja Seržant (Leipzig U): Towards a diachronic typology of Differential Argument Marking

8. Juni 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Patrick Jones (Harvard University): Opacity, ordering and abstractness in Kinande tone (GWZ H1 5.16)

7. Juni 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): André Meinunger (Uni Leipzig): „Ganz nett“ – Zum abschwächenden Gebrauch des Intensivierungselements „ganz“ (GWZ H1 4.16)

3. Juni 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Andrew Murphy (Leipzig U): Wh-movement in Nuer (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Juni 2016, 13:00h: Öffentliche Verteidigung der Dissertation von Christiane Gante: Denominale *ga-Nomina im Frühalthochdeutschen: Wortbildung, Grammatikalisierung, Produktivität und inner-germanischer Vergleich – mit einem Wörterbuch der frühalthochdeutschen Bildungen. (GWZ H4 4.15)

2. Juni 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): reading seminar, discussing Huang (2009), on Neo-Gricean pragmatics and the lexicon.

2. Juni 2016, 17:15h: Talk by Laura Becker & Jude Nformi Awasom (Leipzig U): Focus and verb doubling in Limbum (Bantoid)

1. Juni 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University): The syntax of plurality: Typology, predictions, and Afroasiatic case studies (GWZ H1 5.16)

30. Mai 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Lahiri & Evers (1991)

27. Mai 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Anke Himmelreich (U Leipzig): Some thoughts on upward Agree (GWZ H1 5.16)

26. Mai 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Chen Rong (Leipzig U): Hypothesis-driven universal testing: The association between regularity and length of number marking forms

25. Mai 2016, 17.15h: (IGRA-Kolloquium): Karen De Clercq (U Ghent): The inner structure of MANY/FEW: cross-linguistic explorations (GWZ H1 5.16)

24. Mai 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Sven Grawunder (MPI-EVA Leipzig) Häufigkeit und Ausprägung von *KL > TL- Wechsel innerhalb des ostmitteldeutschen Sprachraums (GWZ H1 4.16)

23. Mai 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Siri Gjersøe on her fieldwork on Nuer

20. Mai 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Katja Barnickel & Johannes Hein (U Leipzig): R-Pronoun Replication in German Dialects (GWZ H1 5.16)

19. Mai 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Lee Hanjung (2010)

18. Mai 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Omer Preminger (University of Maryland): Feeding relations and their breakdowns: A theory of dative intervention (GWZ H1 5.16)

12. Mai 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Karen De Clercq (guest from U Ghent): Typology, syncretisms and nanosyntax in the analysis of negation

9. Mai 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Iosad (2017)

6. Mai 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Petr Biskup (U Leipzig): Case syncretism in ATB constructions (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Mai 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Casali (1996)

29. April 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Fabian Heck (U Leipzig): Complex noun phrase islands (GWZ H1 5.16)

28. April 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Himmelmann (2014)

26. April 2016, 18:00h (SPIGL): Richard Rothenhagen, Marek Halo, Mojmír Muzikant (Leipzig/Brünn): Einige Besonderheiten der deutschen Mundarten in Mähren, Schlesien und in den Sprachinseln (GWZ H1 4.16)

25. April 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Farris-Trimble (2008)

22. April 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Johannes Englisch (U Leipzig): Verb-second in Upper Sorbian (GWZ H1 5.16)

22. April 2016, 14:00h: George Broderick (Uni Mannheim): The names for Britain and Ireland revisited (Ireland Centanary Festival) (Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6)

22. April 2016, 14:30h: Aodhán Mac Cormaic (Galway): The Irish language in the digital age (Ireland Centanary Festival) (Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6)

21. April 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Dingemanse et al. (2013)

19. April, 9:00h: Phil Howson (Toronto): An ultrasound examination of liquids in Upper Sorbian (Forschungsseminar Sorabistik) (GWZ H1 2.10)

18. April 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Zec (1999)

14. April 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Siewierska (2010)

13.-15. April 2016: Konferenz “Leichte Sprache im Spiegel theoretischer und angewandter Forschung“, organisiert von Ulla Fix, Bettina M. Bock, Daisy Lange (Institut für Germanistik)

11. April 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Talk by Sören Worbs and Eva Zimmermann: Exceptional and derived environments in Assamese vowel harmony

8.-9. April 2016: Dictionary Journal Workshop, organisiert von Iren Hartmann (Institut für Linguistik)

7. April 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Creissels (2015+)

31. März 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Everett et al. (2016)

17. März 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Tom Güldemann  (HU Berlin) (& Tjerk Hagemeijer, U Lisbon): How to become a Macro-Sudan belt language: The Gulf-of-Guinea creole (GGC) case

10. März 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Talk by Michael Cysouw (Universität Marburg): Using Parallel text to quantify models of linguistic diversity and change

7.-11. März 2016: Konferenz “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum“, organisiert von Elisabeth Burr

3. März 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Ulrike Zeshan (Central Lancaster University): Another kind of jargon: Deaf sign language users without a shared language developing communication over time

25. Februar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Natalia Levshina (U Leipzig): Multifactorial descriptions and multiple explanations: A study of English permissive constructions

18. Februar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Hawkins (2014), Ch. 2

11. Februar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Haspelmath (1999)

5.-6. Februar 2016: Symposium Diskurs der Daten: Ein interdisziplinäres Symposium. Bibliotheca Albertina

5. Februar 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Yuriy Kushnir (U Leipzig): Case assignment in Latvian PPs (GWZ H1 5.16)

4. Februar 2016, 14:00h: Diversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Haig & Schnell (2016)

3. Februar 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Harald Baayen & Peter Hendrix (Uni Tübingen): Interactions of bottom-up information and top-down lexical priors in reading
English two-constituent compounds (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Februar 2016, 9:00-17:00h: Berufungsvorträge “Deutsch als Zweitsprache”: Diana Maak, Barbara Geist, Nora von Drewitz, Sandra Drumm (Vortragssaal in der Bibliotheca Albertina, Erdgeschoss)

29. Januar 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium):  Sebastian Bank (U Leipzig): Assessing the typology of person portmanteaux

1. February 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): talk by Peter Staroverov

28. Januar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Schmidtke-Bode (2012)

27. Januar 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Tanja Temmermann (CRISSP Brussels): The syntax of idioms: Macro-variation in the size of verbal idioms (GWZ H1 5.16)

26. Januar 2016, 19h (SPIGL): Julia Zernack (Frankfurt am Main): Von Odin erzählen: die vorchristliche Götter- und Heldensage in den isländischen Königssagas (GWZ H1 4.16)

25. Januar 2016, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Eduard Werner (Uni Leipzig): Sorbisch (NSG 426)

22. Januar, 8:30-14:30h: Besetzungsvorträge Computational/Experimental Approaches to Grammar: John Hale, Ewan Dunbar, Flavia Adani (GWZ H1 5.16)

21. Januar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Bickel et al. (2015)

21. Januar, 8:30-16:30h: Besetzungsvorträge Computational/Experimental Approaches to Grammar: Ruben van de Vijver, Wiebke Petersen, Jens Michaelis, Gregory Kobele (GWZ H1 5.16)

20. Januar 2015, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Jingting Ye (Uni Leipzig): Adnominal possessive constructions (GWZ H1 5.16)

20. Januar 2016, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Katharina Hartmann & Viola Schmitt (Uni Frankfurt am Main): Indicative V2 and Vend in German complement clauses (GWZ H1 5.16)

19. Januar 2016, 19h (SPIGL): Matthias Schrinner (Leipzig) (SPIGL): Nebensätze im Wettbewerb (GWZ H1 4.16)

18. Januar 2016, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Sabine Asmus (Uni Leipzig): Manx, Schottisch-Gälisch, Kornisch (NSG 426)

18. Januar 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Hyman & Kobepa (2013)

15. Januar 2016, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): András Bárány (U Cambridge, UK): A unified approach to inverse agreement and global case splits (GWZ H1 5.16)

14. Januar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Napoli et al. (2014)

14. Januar 2016, 19:00h: (Linguistik & Schule): Grit Mehlhorn: Russisch (HS1)

12. Januar 2016, 19h (SPIGL): Christine Domke (Chemnitz): Urbane Mesokommunikation – Vielfalt, Funktion und Wandel öffentlicher Texte (GWZ H1 4.16)

11. Januar 2016, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Daniel Barbero Patiño (Uni Leipzig): Galicisch (NSG 426)

11. Januar 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Alderete (2001)

7. Januar 2016, 14:00hDiversity Linguistics Seminar (GWZ H4 3.15): Anderson (2016)

4. Januar 2016, 17:15h: Phonology Reading Group (GWZ H1 5.16): Köhnlein (2014)

18. Dezember 2015, 10:00-15:30h: Kolloquium “Sprechen und Schreiben II”, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften (SAW Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1, 04107 Leipzig)

16. Dezember 2015, 15:15h (Typologiekolloquium): Nastasia Herold (Uni Leipzig): Atikamekw und der Sprachkontakt zum Französischen (GWZ H1 5.16)

16. Dezember 2015, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Maria Gouskova (New York University): (Title to be announced) (GWZ H1 5.16)

15. Dezember 2015, 19h (SPIGL): Matthias Hahn (Leipzig): Sprechtempo und phonetische Reduktion: sprachgeographische Analysen deutscher Leseaussprache (GWZ H1 4.16)

14.-15. Dezember 2015: Workshop “Treebanking ancient languages: Current and prospective research“, organized by Gregory Crane & Giuseppe Celano (Paulinum P702) (workshop programme)

14. Dezember 2015, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Till Vogt (Uni Leipzig): Bretonisch (NSG 426)

11. Dezember 2015, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Andrew Murphy & Johannes Hein (Uni Leipzig): Case matching and syncretism in ATB (across-the-board) (GWZ H1 5.16)

11. Dezember 2015, 16:00h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Greg Kobele (U Chicago): Derivational structure and ellipsis (GWZ H1 5.16)

7. Dezember 2015, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Unai Lauzirika (Uni Leipzig): Baskisch (NSG 426)

4. Dezember 2015, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Phoevos Panagiotides (U Cyprus): Odd ones out: are adjectives a basic lexical category? (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Dezember 2015, 17:15h (IGRA-Kolloquium): Heidi Harley (U Arizona): Root suppletion in Hiaki really is suppletion (GWZ H1 5.16)

2. Dezember 2015, 18:00h: (Konfuzius-Institut) Yao Xiaoping (Beijing Foreign Studies University): Gabelentz’ Chinesische Grammatik in chinesischer Übersetzung (Sinologie der Universität Leipzig, Schillerstr. 6, Raum S 202)

30. November 2015, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Elton Prifti (Uni Mannheim): Rätoromanisch (NSG 426)

20. November 2015, 14:00h (Grammatiktheorie-Kolloquium): Matías Guzmán Naranjo (Uni Leipzig): Collocations (GWZ H1 5.16)

16. November 2015, 17:15h (Ringvorlesung Regionalsprachen): Sabine Asmus (Uni Leipzig): Walisisch (NSG 426)