Talk by Ewa Trutkowski (Freie Universität Bozen)

by Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Ewa Trutkowski (Freie Universität Bozen) in the Historical Linguistics Colloquium. The talk will take place online and will be held in German. Title: Einige experimentelle Befunde an der Genus/Sexus-Schnittstelle (abstract below) Time: February 1st, 2 pm – 4 pm ct Zoom-Link: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom.us/j/93325272580?pwd=NlM5a3FrRUwxSUpXa0dVQ1hnU3h5UT09   Abstract: In meinem Vortrag werde ich die Ergebnisse einiger Akzeptabilitätsstudien zum Kongruenzverhalten verschiedener Klassen von Nomen an der Schnittstelle von Genus und Sexus vorstellen. Der Fokus liegt auf Prädikativkonstruktionen. Die Befunde zeigen unter anderem, dass sich maskuline Nomen – auch solche ohne Sexusmerkmale, wie ‚Mensch‘, ‚Gast‘ etc. – in Bezug auf Kongruenz bzw. Kongruenzmismatches anders verhalten als Feminina, was eine syntaktische Unterscheidung der beiden Genera nahelegt und eine Absage an die strikte Kopplung von Genus an Sexus in der Belebtheitsdomäne ist (wie sie z.B. von Kotthoff & Nübling 2018:77 nahegelegt wird). Dies ist auch insofern relevant, als die Interpretation von Genus im Sinne von Sexus (also die Vermengung bzw. Gleichsetzung dieser beiden Merkmale) eine der...
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Talk by Carolin Reinert (GU Frankfurt)

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Carolin Reinert (GU Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium. The talk will take place online. If you want to participate via zoom, please register via email to s.walter@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Title: The compositionality of adjective noun constructions – The role of context-dependence Date: January 27 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Abstract: There are two major proposals discussed in the literature regarding the question how adjectives are to be analyzed semantically: (i) adjectives are predicates or (ii) adjectives are modifiers (see, e.g., Montague 1970, Kamp 1975). While adjectives like red are analyzed as predicates, adjectives like tall and skillful need a more complex approach and receive a modifier analysis. However, there are alternatives on the market: for gradable adjectives like tall, complex predicate analyses such as the measure function approach (see, e.g., Kennedy 1999, 2005, Kennedy&McNally 2005) have been developed, building on the observation that such adjectives are dependent on a comparison class. As a consequence of the analysis as a complex predicate,...
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Phonology Colloquium 26.01.22 Fabian Schubö (U Stuttgart) „Givenness and stress rejection“

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk in the phonology colloquium by Fabian Schubö (U Stuttgart). Abstract below. The talk will take place online. However, we will have the hybrid kit working in the seminar room as well. If you are registered in Olat you'll find the Zoom link there. If you want to participate via zoom, please register via email to Alina Gregori: gregori@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Title: Givenness and stress rejection Date: January 26, 2022 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Place: Online Zoom / IG 4.301 (hybrid setting) Everybody is cordially invited! Abstract: This paper addresses the impact of givenness on phrasal stress assignment in German. It has been observed for English that nuclear stress is rejected on given elements that are part of the focused material if another focused word is available to bear nuclear stress (e.g., Ladd 1996). It is  shown that the same effect applies to German. There are various proposals of constraints that militate against prosodic prominence on given elements. The present...
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Talk by Petra Augurzky (GU Frankfurt)

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Petra Augurzky (GU Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium. The talk will take place online. If you want to participate via zoom, please register via email to s.walter@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Title: Investigating effects of prosody and frequency on the on-line processing of quantified sentences – evidence from ERP studies on revision-sensitivity in German Date: January 20 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Abstract: Recent studies have shown that compositional-semantic processing may sometimes proceed in a non-incremental manner. For instance, quantified sentences can exhibit considerable processing delays during on-line sentence comprehension. In my talk, I will introduce a series of ERP studies using picture-sentence verification that investigate such processing delays in sentences involving quantifier restriction in German. Overall, I will argue that the parser’s predictive capacity may sometimes lead to parsing delays associated with the on-line truth value assignment in a sentence. In the second part of the presentation, I will discuss two studies on contextual cues that might be used by the parser for overriding...
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Phonology Colloquium – 19.01.22 Pia Bergmann (Jena) „The prosody of discourse markers“

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk in the Phonology Colloquium by Pia Bergmann (U Jena). Abstract below. The talk will take place online. However, we will have the hybrid kit working in the seminar room as well. If you are registered in Olat you'll find the Zoom link there. If you want to participate via zoom, please register via email to Alina Gregori: gregori@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Title: The prosody of discourse markers – Prosodic prominence on the level of discourse Date: January 19, 2022 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Place: Online Zoom / IG 4.301 (hybrid setting) Everybody is coridially invited! Abstract: The prosody of discourse markers – Prosodic prominence on the level of discourse Pia Bergmann (pia.bergmann@uni.jena.de) The talk deals with the prosody of so-called discourse markers in contemporary German, which are often placed in the context of grammaticalization or pragmaticalization processes (cf. Auer & Günthner 2005). While on the one hand it is assumed that grammaticalization processes are or at least can be accompanied by phonetic...
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