[PLing] Talk by Deniz Özyıldız

[Valerie Wurm]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to our next talk within the Theoretical 
Linguistics Colloquium.

Speaker: Deniz Özyıldız (University of Konstanz)

Date/venue: December 5, 16:30 - 18:00, Sensengasse 3a 1090 Vienna, 
Seminarraum 8

Upcoming events as well as further information can be found on our 
website:
https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming

We are looking forward to seeing you at the talk,
Iva Kovač, Magdalena Lohninger and Valerie Wurm

Title & abstract:

Composing with clauses, from the perspective of Turkish

This talk is about the syntax and semantics of clauses when they are 
part of bigger structures, like when they combine with nouns, verbs and 
adjectives (e.g., 'the thought that it's raining in Vienna,' or 'Paul 
thinks/is sure that it's raining Vienna').

How best to analyze these structures is an old and difficult question, 
which is still being raised and addressed today. And that is what we 
will do, but from the perspective of Turkish.

I will describe the different strategies that the language employs to 
combine clauses with surrounding material, suggest a way of deriving the 
resulting structures compositionally, and lay out the challenges that we 
encounter along the way.