EEL Colloquium
Program of WiSe2025/26
November 13, 2025
16:15-17:45
venue: Room 3.01E, Dorotheenstraße 28
Lexical vs. pragmatic factors on 'conditional perfection': an experimental case study of conditional promises
Jules Rohloff
November 20, 2025
16:15-17:45
venue: Besprechungsraum 0.03, Dorotheenstraße 28
A Study of Formality/Informality across Registers: Use of Epistemic Modal Adverbs in Indian English (IndE)
Souvik Sengupta
November 27, 2025
12:15-13:45
venue: Room 1.505, Dorotheenstraße 24
The role of prosody for information structure in English (and beyond)
Gerrit Kentner
December 4, 2025
16:15-17:45
venue: Besprechungsraum 0.03, Dorotheenstraße 28
A register approach to doubling phenomena in English
Stephanie Rotter
January 8, 2026
16:30-18:00
venue: Room 3.01E, Dorotheenstraße 28
Writing a thesis in lingistics: Q&A (voluntary session)
Mingya Liu
January 15, 2026
16:15-17:45
venue: Besprechungsraum 0.03, Dorotheenstraße 28
A comparative study of expressive vocatives
Mingya Liu
January 22, 2026
12:15-13:45
venue: Room 1.505, Dorotheenstraße 24
to appear
Manfred Krifka
January 22, 2026
12:15-13:45
venue: Room 1.505, Dorotheenstraße 24
Topic drop in German: Grammar and usage
Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Giuseppe Varaschin
February 4, 2026
16:15-17:45
venue: Besprechungsraum 0.03, Dorotheenstraße 28
The social meanings of redundancy and omission: Investigating the use-conditions of multiple negation and object drop in Mandarin Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese
Stephanie Rotter & Giuseppe Varaschin
Program of SoSe2025
June 26, 2025
16:30-18:00
venue: Room 3.01E, Dorotheenstraße 28
Writing a thesis in lingistics: Q&A (voluntary session)
Mingya Liu (HU Berlin)
Program of WiSe2024/25
January 16, 2025
14:15-15:45
venue: Seminarraum 004, Universitätsstr. 3b
Questions, modal assertions, and aporia: against a categorical divide
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
16:00-19:00
venue: Besprechungsraum 0.03, Dorotheenstraße 28
Weak and strong epistemics in assertions, polar questions and declarative questions
Manfred Krifka (HU Berlin/ZAS)
A register approach to modal concord in English
Mingya Liu and Stephanie Rotter (HU Berlin)
Mood and complementizer choice in complements of X-marked emotive factives (joint work with Laura Merino Hernández and Fabio Del Prete)
Frank Sode (HU Berlin)
January 23, 2025
14:15-15:45
venue: Seminarraum 004, Universitätsstr. 3b
Modals in Jamaican Creole: from ideas to a coherent BA thesis in linguistics (mini workshop for students)
Johanna David (HU Berlin)
16:00-18:00
venue: Room 3.01E, Dorotheenstraße 28
Writing a thesis in lingistics: Q&A (voluntary session)
Mingya Liu (HU Berlin)