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Guest talks & reading group

Always on Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 p.m.,  campus Neues Palais, room 1.09.2.06

Talks summer term 2027

26.05.2027 Talk Prof. Freek Van de Velde (KU Leuven), t.b.a.

19.05.2027 Talk Prof. dr. Gilles Authier (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), t.b.a.

5.05.2027 no meeting

28.04.2027 Talk Dr. Michael Daniel (University of Jena), “Split recipient in East Caucasian”

21.04.2027 Dr. Asya Achimova (PI Emmy Noether project "Socially-relevant pragmatic inference") & prof. dr. Martin Butz (University of Tübingen), “Event predictability in the production and comprehension of reference: a pragmatic account of audience design”

14.04.2027 Talk Varvara Arzt (Vienna University of Technology), “Word Order Preferences in Language Models”

Talks winter term 2026/2027

3.02.2027 Paper discussion dr. habil. Peter Arkadiev, “Once more on affixes, clitics, and (non)selectivity”

27.01.2027SVM Talk prof. Herbert Sunday Igboanusi (Univ. of Ibadan, Nigeria, "Language capital and the economics of multilingualism in Nigeria: The role of language policy"

20.01.2027 Talk Dr. Christoph Holz (U Potsdam), "Konomala and the lost Papuan languages of southern New Ireland (Papua New Guinea)“

13.01.2027 SVM Talk prof. Laura Janda & prof. Tore Nesset (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø), “Groups or individuals? Agreement and quantification in Ukrainian, Russian and Norwegian”.

6.01.2027 no meeting

  • 12.01.2027 Crash course "Construction Grammar – a short introduction" (two sessions) 12.15-15.45, room 1.08.056, by prof. Laura Janda & prof. Tore Nesset:

    Part 1: Constructions in the nominal domain (time: 12-14)
    Theoretical intro to Construction Grammar (TN)
    Czech emotions (LAJ)
    Compounds in Germanic and Slavic (TN)
    Reduplication: durak durakom (LAJ)    		Part 2: Constructions in the verbal domain (time: 2-4 pm)
    Theoretical intro to constructicography (LAJ)
    Motion verbs: prefixes and prepositions(TN)
    Predicative adjectives in Russian and their relation to the verbal domain (LAJ)
    Verbal constructions and political discourse: threats, security, and foreign agents  (TN)

6.01.2027

16.12.2026 SVM Talk prof. Paula Orzechowska (University of Potsdam)

9.12.2026

2.12.2026 SVM Talk prof. Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne), "Differential agent marking and larger discourse units in Tima (Niger-Congo, Sudan)"

25.11.2026 Talk prof. Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Cologne), “Wordhood in transcription and elicitation”

18.11.2026 SVM Talk dr. Anna Shadrova (Emmy-Noether-Gruppe "VarLeM: Variabilität und Pfadabhängigkeit des Lexikongebrauchs im Mehrsprachigkeitskontext", Leipzig University), t.b.a.

11.11.2026 Talk Idaliia Fedotova (University of Eastern Finland). The noun phrase in Ket in an areal perspective

4.11.2026 SVM Talk prof. Logi Gunnarson (University of Potsdam)

28.10.2026 Talk Prof. dr. Katrin Schlund (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), "Quantified subjects in Russian, Polish and Bosnian - Croatian - Serbian"

21.10.2026 Reading Group Berg, Thomas. “Morpheme order inside the noun: a typological approach” Morphology 36, 15 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-026-09464-7 

14.10.2026 Talk Peter Arkadiev, Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam), "Avertive-frustrative constructions in Lithuanian and Russian: a comparative corpus study”

Talks summer term 2026

22.07.2026 Long day:

  • 16.15-17.45 Reading group Gong, Liwei and Uehara, Satoshi. "Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial    languages" Linguistic Typology, vol. 28, no. 2, 2024, pp. 291-330. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2023-0035
  • 17.45-18.45 Talk Dr. Maria Shvevoda (U Potsdam, U Jena, U Kharkiv) "Case Choice in Ukrainian Vocative Expressions"

15.07.2026 Talk Artemii Kuznetsov (University of Oxford & short-term fellow of CRC1287, University of Potsdam), “Referential Strategies in Japanese: a Diachrony”

8.07.2026 Reading group Rott, Julian Andrej, Verhoeven, Elisabeth and Fritz-Huechante, Paola. "Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study" Linguistic Typology, vol. 28, no. 1, 2024, pp. 147-191. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0060

1.07.2026 - no meeting - due to the ALT Meeting in Lyon

24.06.2026 Paper Dr. Peter Arkadiev (U Potsdam), “Towards a typology of passive lability” (draft)

17.06.2026 Talk  assoc. prof. Gugliemo Inglese (University of Torino), “The cross-linguistic distribution of P-lability: synchronic vs. diachronic explanations”

10.06.2026 Talk Dr. Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (University of Gothenburg, Språkbanken), "Language variation and short-term change in Swedish at the group level and the individual level"

3.06.2026 Talk  Dr. Jakob Horsch (Slovak Academy of Sciences), "Weight effects in Slovak: Evidence from corpora and experiments"

27.05.2026 Reading group Naranjo, Matías Guzmán & Laura Becker. 2018. Quantitative word order typology with UD. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2018). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 155, 91–104.

20.05.2026 Talk Dr. Stefan Savić (Universität Zürich), “The development of the perfect in Štokavian (BCMS) in 14-15th centuries”

13.05.2026 Talk  Prof. dr. Gilles Authier (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), "Diachronic typology of DOM East Caucasian systems"

6.05.2026 Two talks:

29.04.2026 Reading group Michael Hahn, Dan Jurafsky & Richard Futrell. 2020. Universals of word order reflect optimization of grammars for efficient communication. PNAS 117 (5) 2347-2353.

22.04.2026 Reading group  Bernd Heine, Debra Ziegeler, Carmelo Alessandro Basile & Eric Mélac. 2025. Grammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar: A reappraisal. Studies in Language (Online First Article).

15.04.2026 Talk Dr. Wojciech Lewandowski (U Potsdam), "The Zero-Encoding Construction in English and French: Does Aspectual Viewpoint Play a Role?"

Talks winter term 2025/26

4.02.2026 Talk  Kirill Kozhanov (U Potsdam), "Stability of linguistic features under contact: Diffusion of