Events

Workshop

The Theory and Historical Development of Expletives (and non-referential arguments)

9-10.06.2022, Bochum

Consider the German sentence above. Three knights are riding to the gate and beyond. But why is the first argument es a 3sg pronoun that contributes no or little semantic content to the sentence and does not denote any participant in the event? We can classify it as an expletive pronoun. But who or what exactly is es? What is the function of es? What kind of position does es occupy and how does it get there?

Workshop

Heads, Phrases, Ts and Nodes: Syntactic movement in the 21st Century

09.06.2017, Berlin

This one day workshop, both theoretical and empirical in its scope, aims to bring together a group of leading syntacticians in order to take stock of current approaches to movement in generative syntax
Speakers: Liliane Haegeman, Winfried Lechner, Ian Roberts, Jaklin Kornfilt, Hilda Koopman, Gereon Müller

Kolloquium 2019/2020:

Gemanistische Sprachwissenschaft und -Didaktik

A series of invited talks at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum:

• Ralf Klabunde, RUB
• Jan Seifert, Bonn
• Artemis Alexiadou, HU-Berlin
• Augustin Speyer, Saar-uni