Courses

2024: Theory of Grammar
2024: Seminar on the "Collection, presentation and analysis of empirical data in linguistics"
2025: Doctoral colloquium: Linguistics as an empirical science
2025: Syntax and Semantics of Pronouns

Theory discussion and development group

The group meets twice monthly from October 2025 to discuss theory building.

Workshops

 

2027

  • “Clitics and Agreement Markers Across Languages: From Balkan to Bantu and Beyond”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), 2-5 March 2027, Jena. Keynote: Dalina Kallulli (Universität Wien) and Marcel den Dikken (Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest). Organizers: Ekaterina Levina (Universität Wien) and Adina Camelia Bleotu (Universität Wien, University of Bucharest). Further information and call for papers: https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2066/
  • “Object Marking in African Languages and Beyond: Agreement and Clitic Doubling,” WOCAL 2027, Vienna, 7-10 July 2027. Keynote: Michael Diercks (Pomona College). Organizers: Ekaterina Levina (Universität Wien), Dalina Kallulli (Universität Wien), Adina Camelia Bleotu (Universität Wien , University of Bucharest). Further information and call for papers: https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1963/
  • "Ellipsis and the Architecture of Language: When and Why Can an Element Be Elided?" (3rd. ed.) (Spain) Panel at LV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, 18 January 2027  - 21 January 2027. Further information: linguistlist.org/issues/37/2241/

2026

  • Semantics Cluster Retreat, Graz, 11.-12. Feber 2026 (TP2 + TP10)
  • Statistics Workshop, Graz, 12. Feber 2026 (Simon Dampfhofer)
  • VII Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena (JLCV2026): Marcadors Discursius i Pragmaticalització. Universität Wien, 28.-29. May 2026. https://jornades.univie.ac.at/, https://jornades.univie.ac.at/de/ (Deutsch), https://jornades.univie.ac.at/en/ (English).
  • Workshop on clitics with András Bárány and Monica Irimia. 10.06.2026. Universität Wien (Organizers: Dalina Kallulli, Ekaterina Levina, Adina Camelia Bleotu)

 

2025

  • Situation Semantics (04.03.2025, 11.03.2025), online (Filipe Kobayashi)
  • Pronominal Theories of Tense (28-29.03.2025). Invited speakers: Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University), Roumyana Pancheva (University of California), Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Organizers: Daniel Büring, Melanie Loitzl, Justina Schindler)
  • Clitics Workshop (3.4.2025)
  • Referential Expressions in Discourse: Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations, 29-30.05.2025, Universität Graz (Edgar Onea, Klaus von Heusinger)
  • Theory Task Force Workshop:  13. Juni 2025, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Boban Arsenijević; Edgar Onea; Filipe Kobayashi; Susanne Wurmbrand)
  • "DM meets Nano in Romance and beyond", 15.-16. Juli 2025, Universität Wien (Pamela Goryczka, Universität Wien; Anne-Li Demonie, Masaryk Universität)
  • SSSPP: Workshop on Pronouns: 1.-11. Juli 2025, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg. Programm (grün markierte Veranstaltungen sind nur für SFB-Mitglieder) (Susanne Wurmbrand; Magdalena Lohninger; Filipe Kobayashi; Franziska Keller)
  • Pronouns in Acquisition (15 November 2025) as part of the conference Bucharest Colloquium on Language Acquisition 9 (BUCLA 9) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oCVtiJhmpiA_CkzTzh-0mmviLNtvhWh6/view, (Organizers: A. C. Bleotu and I. Stoicescu)
  • ÖLT Session (December 2025): Current issues in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. (Organizers: Melanie Loitzl, Madeleine Butschety)

2024

 

 

Invited talks

2026

  • “Referential vs. morphosyntactic gender agreement of pronouns in thought reports:An experimental investigation”, Stefan Hinterwimmer (Hamburg), 15.1.2026.
  • Times and Individuals: Temporal semantics in the nominal domain, Paul Meisenbichler (MIT), 22.1.2026.
  • “Hockett’s nightmare: How to deal with non-arbitrary meaning”, Cornelia Ebert (Frankfurt) & Markus Steinbach (Göttingen), 26.1.2026.
  • "Subject-object asymmetries in European Portuguese as heritage language", Esther Rinke (Frankfurt), 12.2.2026.
  • "How gradient is grammar?", Sandra Villata (Enna), 4.5.2026.
  • “Czech complementation”, Michaela Čakányová (Olomouc), 13.5.2026.
  • “Entailment and scope in negative polarity item licensing”, Iva Kovač (Wien), 20.5.2026.
  • “A novel argument for cyclicity from the (in)visibility of infixes at morpheme junctures”, Laura Kalin (Princeton), 20.5.2026.
  • “Hungarian has object agreement, not clitic doubling”, András Bárány (Edinburgh), 3.6.2026.
  • “Paradigm shifts in German personal pronouns from Old High German to New High German”, Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt), 25.6.2026.
     

2025

  • “Copied relative clauses and the theory of phi-feature mismatches in binding”, Itai Bassi, 08.01.2025.
  • “Deverbal discourse markers. An overview”, Stefan Schneider (University of Graz), 24.01.2025. 
  • "Logophoric centers and thenon-availability of [speaker] or [addressee] features in natural language”, Antonio Fábregas (NTNU), 5.3.2025.
  • "Rational speech acts meet exhaustification: Modeling free choice and related inferences", Lucas Champollion (NYU), 9.4.2025
  • “Causation and perception in Romance languages: implications for the syntax-semantics mapping", Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle), 7.5.2025.
  • “Phonology goes syntax", Markus Pöchtrager (Wien), 14.5.2025.
  • “Austronesian pivots: grammaticalization from topics to subjects”, Magdalena Lohninger (PLUS), 28.5.2025.
  • “Parasitic Scope, Comparatives and Superlatives”, Winfried Lechner (Athen), 12.11.2025.
  • “What makes a word (but not a picture): Insights from sign language semantics”, Kathryn Davison
    (Harvard University), 15.12.2025.
  • “Differential Argument Marking and Discourse Prominence”, Marco García García & Javier Caro Reina (Köln), 16.12.2025.

2024

  • “Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments”, Diane Lillo-Martin, 13.05.2024.
  • “Syntax of gender features”, Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University), 31.05.2024.
  • LingCor2024: 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics, https://lingcor2024.univie.ac.at/,  25.–26.07.2024.
  • “Workshop on Statistics”, Vladimir Buskin (KU Eichstätt), 16.-17.10.2024.
  • “New approaches to clitics in Romance and beyond”, Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho), Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH), Alejo Alcaraz (University of the Basque Country), Dalina Kallulli (UVienna), Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland), 20.09.2024.
  • “Conditions on bound indexicals: Focus, subjecthood and agreement”, Tom Meadows, 13.11.2024.
  • “Impersonalità e univerbazione: un processo di formazione di segnali discorsivi in siciliano”, Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki) 25.11.2024 (BA/MA seminar Remberger).
  • “Syntax of prominence”, Sašo Živanović (University of Ljubljana), 11.12.2024.
  • “Tense and Quantification”, Daniel Büring, 21.11.2024.
  • “Adentro and là-dedans: inside deictic prepositions with null complements in Spanish and French”, Michelle Troberg (Toronto), 05.12.2024.
  • “Bare prepositions and the issue of ellipsis: some hints from Martinican Creole”, Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris), Loïc Jean-Louis (Paris), 05.12.2024.
  • Els pronoms del català / Pronouns in Catalan (Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena), https://jornades.univie.ac.at/, 12.12.2024.

  • “Pronoun use in metalepsis”, Daniel Altshuler (Oxford), 12.12.2024.