BA Linguistik Orientierungsveranstaltung am 02.11.2020

by Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
Liebe Studierende im ersten Fachsemester des BA Linguistik,   anders als ursprünglich geplant, können wir die Orientierungsveranstaltung für die Studierenden im ersten Fachsemester des BA Linguistik nicht als Präsenzverstaltung abhalten. Wir bedauern das sehr. Die rasant angestiegenen Corona-Infektionszahlen gerade im Raum Frankfurt lassen es notwendig erscheinen, unsere Veranstaltung in den virtuellen Raum zu verlegen, um alle Beteiligten vor dem Risiko einer Ansteckung zu schützen.    Dennoch werden wir uns am Montag, dem 2. November 2020 um 15.30 zu unserer Orientierungsveranstaltung treffen, und zwar in Gestalt einer Zoomsitzung. Den Link zu Zoom haben Sie bereits per Email erhalten. Falls Sie keine Email erhalten haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Dr. Schulze-Bünte.  ...
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BA inguistics orientation on campus on November 2

by Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
Dear students in their first semester of the BA Linguistics,   Unlike originally planned, we are unable to hold the orientation event for students in the first semester of the BA Linguistics as a classroom event. We regret this very much. The rapidly increasing number of corona infections, especially in the Frankfurt area, makes it seem necessary to move our event to the virtual room in order to protect all participants from the risk of infection.    Nevertheless, we will meet on Monday, November 2, 2020 at 3:30 pm for our orientation event, which will take the form of a zoom session.   You have already received the link to Zoom by email. If you have not received an email, please contact Dr. Schulze-Bünte.  ...
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Talk by Carla Umbach (ZAS, Cologne University) – Thursday, July 16, 4-6pm

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Carla Umbach (ZAS, Cologne University) at the Semantics Colloquium. Please register beforehand (koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts). Title: Equatives in Turkish – two cognitive strategies across categories Date: July 16th Time: 4pm - 6pm ...
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Talk by Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam) – Thursday, July 9, 4-6pm

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam) at the Semantics Colloquium. Please find the abstract below. Please register beforehand (koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts). Title: Conditionals, Generics and Causality Date: July 9th Time: 4pm - 6pm   Abstract: According to Adams (1965), the acceptability of an indicative conditional goes with the conditional probability of the consequent given the antecedent. Lewis (1975) and Kratzer (2012) gave a very similar analysis of all types of conditionals, and frequency adverbs. However, some conditionals seem to be inappropriate, although their corresponding conditional probability is high. These are cases with a missing link between antecedent and consequent (Douven, 2008, Rott, 2019). In this talk I will argue that the missing link should normally be a causal link. Biscuit conditionals, however, show that the link should be thought of in a more general way. Finally, I will argue that causality and interest...
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Talk by Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) – Thursday, July 2, 4-6pm

by Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) that will be discussed next thursday at the Semantics Colloquium. Malte Zimmermann will pre-record his talk for our meeting. Please send a mail to koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de to register beforehand and receive the link. You thereby also register for the discussion session at our usual time. You will receive the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts). Title: Fake Tense in Hausa Counterfactuals: A novel argument for underspecified EXCL Date: July 2nd Time: 4pm - 6pm  ...
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