Englisches Seminar

Day 1 - 19 August 2026

08:30

08:50

registration

08:50

09:00

James Griffiths (Tübingen)
Welcome

09:00

10:00

Keynote Speaker: Richard Stockwell (Ulster)

Advertising conditions on ellipsis

10:00

10:30

coffee and snacks

10:30

11:00

Robin Lemke (Saarbrücken)

Just a mistake? – Testing a noisy channel account of ellipsis processing

11:00

11:30

Joanna Nykiel (Stockholm), Jacob Thaisen (Oslo)
Preposition omission in Danish fragments

11:30

11:45

coffee and snacks

11:45

12:15

Miriam Schiele (Tübingen)

German sluicing: Anisomorphic ellipsis sites are only a last resort

12:15

12:45

Antonio Brăileanu (Bucharest), Gabriela Bîlbîie (Bucharest), Anne Abeillé (Paris)
Romanian Right Node Raising: Preposition and Case Mismatches

12:45

14:00

Lunch

14:00

14:30

Amal Hassen, Heiner Drenhaus, Ingo Reich, Robin Lemke (Saarbrücken)
Retrieval cues in French sluicing: Effects of correlate informativity and feature matching

14:30

15:00

Paula Fenger (Leipzig), Johannes Hein (HU Berlin), Luise Schwarzer (Konstanz)
The independence of verb-stranding VP-ellipsis and verb-doubling VP-topicalization

15:00

15:30

coffee and snacks

15:30

16:00

Andrew Weir (NTNU Trondheim)
Does this ellipsis work the way we think?

16:00

16:30

Ricarda Scherer (Saarbrücken)
And WHO did WHAT? Studies about Gapping and focus structure in German

19:00

 

workshop dinner

Day 2 - 20 August

09:00

10:00

Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Breuning (Delaware)

How to understand silence: Voice mismatches in ellipsis in English
(joint work with Anna Koppy, Bilge Palaz, Satoshi Tomioka, and Rebecca Tollan)

10:00

10:30

coffee and snacks

10:30

11:00

Ali Can Çiçek & Güliz Güneş (Tübingen)
Diagnosing sluicing in Turkish: Evidence from multiple sluicing

11:00

11:30

Yasemin Fincan (Ohio)
Adjunct Inclusion in Turkish: Event Structure and Adjunct Type

11:30

12:00

coffee and snacks

12:00

12:30

Hee-Don Ahn (Seoul), Sungeun Cho (Yeungnam)
Ways to License Korean Fragments

12:30

13:00

Irene Macagaza (Basque Country)
Multiple sluicing in Basque: The Clausemate Condition and short sources

13:00

14:00

Lunch

14:00

14:30

Andrew Weir, Anna Brandel (NTNU Trondheim)
Post-adjectival NP ellipsis in Norwegian: Focus movement versus head-licensing

14:30

15:00

Emma Kious (Paris)
Gender mismatches under nominal argument ellipsis in French: An experimental approach

15:00

15:30

coffee and snacks

15:30

16:30

Keynote speaker: Anikó Lipták (Leiden)
Compound pruning: Analytical approaches

16:30

16:45

farewell 

19:00

 

optional dinner