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<p>Liebe Kolleg*innen,<br>
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ich möchte Sie sehr herzlich zum Vortrag von <b>Peter Hallman</b>
vom Österreichischen Forschungsinstituts für Artificial
Intelligence (OFAI) einladen. Sein Vortrag mit den Titel "<b>Comparative
Constructions in Syrian Arabic</b>" ist Teil der aktuellen
Vortragsreihe des OFAI und wird am <b>Dienstag, den 25.10.2022</b>
um <b>18:30</b> (UTC+2) <b>online</b> stattfinden. <br>
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“Comparative Constructions in Syrian Arabic”<br>
Dr. Peter Hallman<br>
Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence<br>
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Zoom Zugang:<br>
URL:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09</a><br>
Meeting ID: 842 8244 2460<br>
Passcode: 678868<br>
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Abstract und Biographie finden Sie unten angehängt.<br>
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Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme!<br>
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Mit besten Grüßen,<br>
Stephanie Gross<br>
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<u>Talk abstract</u>: 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.<br>
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<u>Speaker biography</u>: 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.<br>
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Mag. Dr. Stephanie Gross MSc | Austrian Research Institute for
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stephanie.gross@ofai.at">stephanie.gross@ofai.at</a> | Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
phone: (+43-1)5324621-1 | Freyung 6/3/1a
| A-1010 Vienna, Austria
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