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RTG Retreat WiSe25/26 – November 20-21, 2025 at Mariaspring

Workshop: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation

This workshop will take place in Georg-August-University Göttingen on November 14, 2025. It will focus on form-meaning mismatches in negation, modality, and agreement. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session.



• Invited Speakers:
• Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Malte Zimmermann (Universität Potsdam)
• Hadil Karawani (Universität Konstanz)
• Sandhya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University)
• Beste Kamali (University of Amsterdam)
• John Bailyn (Stony Brook University)

Special Session by Josep Quer

• Making language needs in youth justice systems visible: COST Action YJustLang: November 3rd, 2025, 15:00 - 17:00 at CRC library


• Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain – November 6–7, 2025, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences


• Modelling Agreement and Movement Workshop: July 10, 2025, 14:15–17:45 at VG 1.105


• RTG Workshop on Ideophones: June 10–11, 2025 at Nikolausberger Weg 23


• Language Fieldwork Workshop: June 2, 2025 at Heyne Haus, Büttner Raum 1


• ConSOLE: January 29–31, 2025


• ViCom Workshop on "Dimensions of Meaning in the Visual Modality": February 13–14, 2025 at the University of Göttingen


• LIMES Colloquium 2025: March 17–19, 2025 at Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3

2024


• Agency and Intentions in AI (AIAI): May 16–17, 2024 at the University of Göttingen


• Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators: June 27–29, 2024 at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)


• Form and Meaning of Coordination: July 4–6, 2024 at the University of Göttingen


• Expressing Emotions in Sign Languages: July 4–5, 2024 at the University of Hamburg


• LASER workshop: April 9–11, 2024 at the University of Göttingen


• Clause-type marking in the visual modality: February 28 – March 1, 2024 at Ruhr-Universität Bochum


• ViCom Workshop on "The Linguistic Status of Demonstrations": April 8–10, 2024 at Bold Campus, Königstein/Taunus


• The 2nd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes (CHAMP2): February 1–2, 2024, University of Göttingen


• Collaborative Meeting RTG "Nominal Modification" (Frankfurt) and RTG "Form-meaning mismatches" (Göttingen): February 8–9, 2024 at the University of Göttingen

2023


• Factors in Natural Language Design - the Nominal Domain and Beyond , December 11-12, 2023


• Nominal syntax in the medieval and early modern Celtic languages. Part of the research project: 'The syntax of ellipsis and information structure in Old Irish: a typological approach' (PI: Elliott Lash, funded by the DFG), October 27-28, 2023


• Third International Conference on Adverbial Clauses , October 5-6, 2023. Please find the conference program here. The conference will be preceded by the Workshop on Adverbial Clausal in Creole and Pidgin Languages
  
  
• Career Talk @LinG with Dr. Andreas Haida, July 13th, 2023


• LinG Conversations with Andrew Nevins, 20th June - 1st July, 2023


• Career Talk @LinG with Dr. Mirjana Sekicki, July 05th, 2023


• LinG Conversations with Anthi Revithiadou and Vassilios Spyropoulos, May 26, 2023


• LinG Conversations with Giorgia Zorzi, 19-21 April 2023, at Nikolausberger Weg 23


• NELS 53, 12-14 January 2023, at Paulinerkirche in Göttingen



2022



• LinG Conversations with Elly van Gelderen, November 9th and November 23rd, 2022


• Göttingen Summer School in Linguistics 7: "Topics in Corpus Annotation and Data Analysis 2022", 19-30 September 2022, at Göttingen Observatory


• 5th Night of Science, July, 9th, 2022


• Alternatives, Expectations and Domain widening, 19-21 September 2022,
  at Bar-Ilan University


• Conference: "Adverbs and adverbials at the form-meaning interface: diachronic and synchronic perspectives (AAMFI 2022)", 18-20 May 2022, at Göttingen University


• DGfS-Workshop: "Visual Communication. New Theoretical and Empirical Developments", 23-25 February 2022, at University of Tübingen

2021


• “The active child” – A workshop on active learning in early development,
  30 November - 03 December 2021, at Göttingen University


• RTG 2636: Opening Event, September, 14th, 2021 at Göttingen University


• [RESCHEDULED]Göttingen fall school in linguistics 2021: "Anaphora and presuppositions", 30 August – 3 September 2021, at Göttingen University


• Workshop: "On the nouniness of prepositional arguments" (Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) 2021), 23-26 February 2021, at University of Freiburg


• Interdisciplinary workshop: "Agency and Intentions in Language" (AIL), 13-15 January 2021, at Göttingen University (virtual)

2020


• Workshop: "Analogical Patterns in Inflectional Morphology", 16-17 April 2020, at Göttingen University


• Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Modalities: New Perspectives on Bimodal (Sign Language/Oral Language) Bilingualism (Workshop at the Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) 2020), 4–6 March 2020, at University of Hamburg


• LinG3 – (A)symmetries in spoken and sign languages , 5-6 February 2020, at Göttingen University


• Workshop: "Große Korpora in der Praxis: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen" (Einführung in die Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch (DGD)), 27-28 January 2020, at Göttingen University

2019


• New Ways of Analyzing Ancient Greek, 1 (part of LinG2), 13-14 December 2019, at Göttingen University


• NaP2019 – Number and plurality: cross-linguistic variation in the nominal domain (part of LinG2), 11-12 December 2019, at Göttingen University


• LinG Workshop on Sign Languages, 12 September 2019, at Göttingen University


• Summer School "Speech Acts", 8–19 July 2019, at Göttingen University


• Workshop: "Dimensions of wh-words: A German-Italian question time", 6-8 May 2019, Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Centre for the European Dialogue


• DISCO — Dependency in Syntactic Covariance (Workshop on Phi-Agreement, Reference, and Case), 16–17 April 2019, at Leipzig University (as a part of the joint DFG project Anaphora vs Agreement: Investigating the Anaphor Agreement Effect between the University of Göttingen & the University of Leipzig)


• "Auf den Spuren der deutschen Sprachgeschichte und Literatur in Mitteldeutschland" (Workshops im Rahmen der U4 Kooperation), 10–12 April 2019, at Universität Göttingen


• Workshop: "New Horizons in the Study of Nominal Phrases", Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2019), 6-8 March 2019, at University of Bremen

2018


• FDSL 13 (2018) – 13th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, 5–7 December 2018, at Göttingen University


• CGSW33 (2018) – Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, 27–28 September 2018, at Göttingen University


• LinG1 (2018) – Workshop on Agreement and Anaphoricity, 25–26 September 2018, at Göttingen University


• Summer School "Form-Meaning Mismatches in Natural Language", 30 July – 10 August 2018, at Göttingen University


• "Ausgewählte Themen zu Phonologie und Phonetik" — Barbara Vogt (Triest), 16–20 July 2018, at Göttingen University


• Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, 4–6 July 2018, at Göttingen University


• Workshop: "Große Korpora in der Praxis: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen" (Einführung in COSMAS II), 5–6 June 2018, at Göttingen University


• "Auf den Spuren der deutschen Sprachgeschichte und Literatur in Mitteldeutschland"
  
• GraModAT – Grammaticalization of Mood, Aspect and Tense, 26 February 2018

2017


• Anaphora Resolution in Sign and Spoken Languages - Theoretical and Experimental Dimensions (ARISAS), 20-21 February 2017


• GGS 2017 Generative Grammatik des Südens, 16-18 June 2017


• GÖTTINGEN SUMMER SCHOOL: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS - WITH A FOCUS ON SPEECH ACTS AND SENTENCE TYPES, July 24 - August 4 2017

2016


• Workshop: Sign Language Agreement Revisited: New Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives, 23-26 February 2016


• GLOW 2016 - 39th Generative Linguistics in the Old World, 5-8 April 2016, at Göttingen University

2015


• Workshop on Sentence Types and Mood, 12 October 2015, at Göttingen University


• Workshop Nonmanuals at the Gesture Sign Interface (NaGSI), 9-10 October 2015, at Göttingen University


• Göttingen Spirit Summer School & Workshop on Negation, September 2015, at Göttingen University


• XPrag.de: Experimental Pragmatics, Annual Meeting, 25-27 June 2015, at Göttingen University

2014


• Sinn und Bedeutung 19, 15-17 September 2014, at Göttingen University


• Workshop: "New Approaches to the Syntax/Semantics Interface"
  
  The linguistics institute of the Department of German Philology and the Courant Research Centre "Text Structures" are organising a workshop on the syntax/semantics interface, sponsored by the U4 Network.
  
  For more Information please visit the German Department's website.


• Courant Research Center Conference - "Emotionsausdruck in Lyrik und Musik"
  
  organized by Tilmann Köppe and Christoph Dennerlein will take place on November 8th and 9th, 2013.
  
  For more information please have a look at the conference program.