Max Berthold successfully defends his dissertation

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
On March 4, 2026, Max Berthold successfully defended his dissertation titled Temporality in the Nominal Domain: Tense and Aspect. We warmly congratulate him on this achievement!    In his dissertation, Max investigates temporal reference of noun phrases in English and German. He argues that verbal temporal reference is supplemented by a structurally parallel system of tense and aspect in the nominal domain, and provides a detailed formal analysis of German temporal adjectives as overt realizations of nominal tense and aspect. ← See all Semantics News...
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FLAMM 2027: Second Workshop on Formal Linguistic Approaches to Multimodality

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce that the Semantics Department will organize the second Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) workshop on August 27–28, 2027, in collaboration with the Priority Program Visual Communication (ViCom). The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal analysis of visual and multimodal communication. With this event, we follow up on the first successful edition of the conference, which took place at Trinity College in Dublin. Further details will be announced in due course....
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