[PLing] Vortrag von Peter Hallman zum Thema "Comparative Constructions in Syrian Arabic"

[Stephanie Gross]

Liebe Kolleg*innen,

ich möchte Sie sehr herzlich zum Vortrag von *Peter Hallman* vom 
Österreichischen Forschungsinstituts für Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) 
einladen. Sein Vortrag mit den Titel "*Comparative Constructions in 
Syrian Arabic*" ist Teil der aktuellen Vortragsreihe des OFAI und wird 
am *Dienstag, den 25.10.2022* um *18:30* (UTC+2) *online* stattfinden.

“Comparative Constructions in Syrian Arabic”
Dr. Peter Hallman
Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09
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Abstract und Biographie finden Sie unten angehängt.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme!

Mit besten Grüßen,
Stephanie Gross


_Talk abstract_: In this talk, I show firstly that English and Syrian 
Arabic (which is typical of the contemporary Arabic dialects in the 
relevant respects) share a syntactic constraint on the formation of 
‘degree clauses’, the clauses that describe the standard of comparison 
that in English are introduced by ‘than’, i.e., the bracketed part in 
‘Clyde is taller [than Miriam is]’. Secondly, I show that in Syrian 
Arabic but not English, the relevant restriction also constrains the 
scope of the comparative itself, effecting the repertoire of possible 
interpretations for comparative constructions in that language. 
Consequently, the scope of the comparative and the derivation of the 
degree clause are syntactically uniform in Arabic but not in English. I 
offer some speculations on the source of the unexpected non-uniformity 
of English, which is probably related to differences in the structure of 
noun phrases between the two languages.

_Speaker biography_: Peter Hallman is a theoretical linguist at the 
Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) with 
specializations in syntax, semantics and morphology, and language area 
specializations in Arabic, German and English.

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