Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain (WONDo), November 10-11, 2022

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
The doctoral researchers of RTG ’Nominal Modification' are organising a two-day Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain (WONDo): Factors, Perspectives & Approaches. The workshop will take place between November 10-11, 2022 on Campus Westend (Cas 1.811) of Goethe University (https://sites.google.com/view/wondo2022/homepage). The workshop will host talks both by doctoral researchers, GK alumni and invited speakers. Participation is free of costs but please make sure to register here by October 31, 2022: https://sites.google.com/view/wondo2022/registration. Keep an eye on the homepage for the program. WONDo_2022_description...
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Guest Professor Seunghun J. Lee (Christian University, Tokyo) in July 2022

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We welcome Seunghun J. Lee (Christian University, Tokyo) as this year's guest professor We are happy to welcome our guest Prof. Dr. Seunghun J. Lee from Christian University, Tokyo (https://sites.google.com/info.icu.ac.jp/linglab/home), who will be a guest researcher and lecturer at the Department of Linguistics in July 2022 as part of the International Campus Programme  (https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/56181581/International_Campus).    In the MA Programme "Linguistics", he will teach a course on "Prosody-Syntax-Interface: Theoretical and practical applications" - and everybody is welcome to participate. Registration for the course is via Olat. Here is the link to his class. https://qis.server.uni-frankfurt.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=334409&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung   Seunghun will be here the whole month of July. He is more than happy to discuss linguistic issues with colleagues and students. If anybody is interested in meeting him, just send him an email to s.lee@em.uni-frankfurt.de He can be reached in person in office IG 4.315....
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Talk by Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University, Tokyo / University of Venda, South Africa)

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk in the Phonology Colloquium by Seunghun J. Lee Title: A modular theory of the relation between syntactic and phonological constituency Date: Wednesday, 29.06.2022 Time: 16-18 Location: in person on campus IG 4.301 (if necessary, we will stream the talk via Zoom) 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 Abstract: In this talk, we present a proposal about how syntactic constituents and phonological constituents are related. This modular account explain mismatches between syntactic and phonological/prosodic constituency by re-construing Match constraints (Selkirk 2011) as spell-out constraints that relate the output representation of the morphosyntax to the input representation for the phonology. In the phonology per se, a novel class of prosodic structure faithfulness constraints interacts with prosodic structure markedness constraints to produce further constituency mismatches in the output phonological representation. Main data in this talk comes from H tone spreading...
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Talk by Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz ZAS, Berlin)

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
We are happy to announce the next talk by Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz ZAS, Berlin) in the Phonology Colloquium. Title: Towards a typology of prosody-segment interaction: The case of tone-driven epenthesis Date: Wednesday, 22.06.2022 Time: 16-18 Location: IG 4.301 in person, if necessary with additional Zoom If you want to participate via Zoom, please register via email to Alina Gregori: gregori@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract: This talk presents on an oft-neglected topic in phonological typology: the interaction between segments and prosody (e.g. pitch/tone/intonation/etc.). Some prosody-segment interactions are commonly found (e.g. tone lowering with depressor consonants) and others are known to be quite rare (e.g. tone height dependent on vowel height), but in general its empirical landscape has not been firmly established. This talk argues that we must add to this typology a novel process we call ‘tone-driven epenthesis’, defined as the phonological insertion of a vowel in order to host a tone (e.g. a high pitch target). We show evidence for tone-driven epenthesis in two African languages Wamey (Tenda, Niger-Congo: Senegal)...
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Talk by Oliver Schallert (LMU München)

by Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Oliver Schallert (LMU) in the Historical Linguistics Colloquium. The talk will be held in German. Title: Grammatische Lücken und Lückenbüßer bei der Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz im Deutschen Date: Friday, 24.06.2022 Time: 10-12 c.t. Location: IG 2.201 in person (Shortened) abstract: Im meinem Vortrag beschäftige ich mich mit der Frage, wie die Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz bei disjunktiven Koordinationen geregelt ist. Ich präsentiere Ergebnisse einer Akzeptabilitätsstudie, die sich im Design an Himmelreich und Hartmann (2021) orientiert, aber schwerpunktmäßig rein pronominale Subjekte berücksichtigt. Einflussfaktoren auf die Kongruenzverhältnisse sind u. a. die Abfolge von Kongruenzauslöser (Controller) und Kongruenzziel (Target) sowie Synkretismen, die die Kongruenzprobleme quasi auf morphologischer Ebene lösen. Mit Blick auf die grammatische Modellierung skizziere ich eine Analyse im Rahmen der Lexikalisch-Funktionalen Grammatik (LFG), die eine einfache Implementierung von sprachübergreifend validen Resolutionsregeln ermöglicht (Corbett 1983; Corbett 1983; Dalrymple und Kaplan 2000; Dalrymple 2001)....
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