Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie

Vorträge im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Slawistische Linguistik

 

Im Wintersemester 2025/26 findet das Kolloquium donnerstags 16.15-17.45 Uhr (wenn nicht anders angegeben) über Zoom oder hybrid statt (Präsenz: Dorotheenstr. 65, Raum 5.61). Wenn Sie an den Vorträgen teilnehmen möchten und den Zoomlink benötigen (für Präsenz/Hybridvorträge kommen Sie einfach vorbei) oder wenn Sie selber vortragen wollen, wenden Sie sich bitte an Berit Gehrke.

Bisher sind folgende Vorträge geplant: 

 

16.10.2025, 16:30-17:45 [hybrid]
Bożena Rozwadowska (Wrocław), Liudmyla Petryk (Częstochowa) & Natalia Shlikhutka (Wrocław): Psych Reflexive Alternation in Ukrainian and Russian

We investigate the EO/ES (Experiencer Object/Experiencer Subject) in Ukrainian and Russian. Building on Rozwadowska & Bondaruk (2019) and Bondaruk & Rozwadowska (2024) as well as on previous cross-linguistic research, we examine whether this alternation constitutes a subtype of the causative/anticausative alternation (CAA) or represents an independent phenomenon. At the background of comparative evidence from Greek, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian, and Polish, we explore the EO/ES alternation in Ukrainian and Russian and propose a three-way classification of psych verbs based on their morphosyntactic properties. We demonstrate that not all EO verbs are the same. The classes identified in our data differ systematically in terms of case marking, argument realization, as well as their compatibility with instrumental NPs and causative prepositional phrases. The analysis reveals that while some EO/ES alternations in Ukrainian and Russian share surface similarities with CAA, their syntactic behaviour and interpretation often diverge in crucial ways. Our findings support a fine-grained classification of alternating EO verbs with a general conclusion that the EO/ES alternation in these languages cannot be reduced to the causative alternation but rather should be treated as a complex distinct psych verb alternation with different faces.

 

23.10.2025 [zoom]
Vesela Simeonova (Graz): Counterfactual marking on modals

This talk presents new insights, based on data from Bulgarian, on the interaction between counterfactual morphology and the interpretation of necessity and desire modals. The starting point is a puzzle presented by von Fintel & Iatridou (2008; 2023) that in some languages: (i) CF morphology ("X-marking") is used to turn a strong necessity modal into a weak necessity one, and want into wish; (ii) in addition, X-marked modals are ambiguous: the CF-marked modal claim can be evaluated in the actual world or in a CF world (endo vs exo readings). 
In this talk I show that Bulgarian has two morphologically distinct X-markers: weak CF (X') and strong CF (X''), thanks to which all readings identified by von Fintel & Iatridou (2023) are morphosemantically disambiguated. The pattern that emerges is that the choice between X' and X'' marking on modals correlates with CF strength in their interpretations. This informs the nature of the relationship between X-morphology and modals in new ways and relates to recent works that identify a richer morphological inventory for CF marking, e.g. in Portuguese (Ferreira, 2023), Japanese (Mizuno, 2024), Serbian (Kaufmannn & Todorovic, 2024), and Palestinian Arabic and Hebrew (Karawani, 2014).

 

30.10. 2025 [zoom]
Philip Shushurin (NYU): The distribution of short form adjectivals in Russian: a novel generalization

 

20.11. 2025 [zoom]
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (Wrocław), Alberto Frasson (Wrocław), Justyna Gruszecka (Poznań), Antonina Mocniak (Cracow), Andrzej Żak (Polish Academy of Sciences), Elena Vaiksnoraite (OSU), Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan (UCLA), Daria Seres (Graz), Vladimir Cvetkoski (Skopje), Patrick Mihaylov (Sofia) & Diana Androva (Sofia): A Semantic Micro-Typology of the Present Perfect across Baltic and South Slavic Languages: Evidence from Translation Mining

 

27.11. 2025 [zoom]
Martin Alldrick (Surrey): Morphological overabundance in Czech and Slovak nouns: a diachronic perspective

Overabundance, wherein two inflectional affixes can express the same functional meaning is a well attested phenomenon in both Czech and Slovak declension, yet its historic origins remain understudied. This talk charts the development of overabundance from the earliest stages of Czech and Slovak to the present day and shows how a diachronic analysis of the distribution of variant forms can be used to answer wider questions both about the grammatical structure of Czech and Slovak and wider morphological theory.
 
11.12.2025 [zoom] 
Alberto Frasson (Wrocław): Just a phi apart: The syntax of adjectival and adverbial participles in Polish and beyond
 
Februar 2026 [zoom]
Eleanor Sand (Urbana-Champaign): Negative Concord in L2 Russian and English
This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of Negative Concord (NC) and Double Negation (DN). Recent experimental work has found native speakers of (Standard American) English – a DN language – to possess a latent Non-Strict NC grammar. Despite not producing such structures, native speakers are predisposed to interpret double negatives with negative objects as single negation (e.g., ‘He didn’t eat nothing’ = ‘He ate nothing’) and double negatives with negative subjects as double negation (e.g., ‘No one didn’t eat food’ = ‘Everyone ate food’) (Blanchette 2017; Blanchette & Lukyanenko 2019). Previous work has found first language (L1) transfer effects in L2 acquisition of Negative Concord Items, Polarity Items, and negation. However, no study has explored how a latent NC grammar may affect L2 acquisition of NC (Alexandrino 2010; Seaman et al. 2023; Yamada 2022). In addition, little is known about how a latent NC/DN grammar may be acquired by L2 learners. The present study addresses this gap by investigating L1 English L2 Russian acquisition of Strict NC as well as L1 Russian L2 English acquisition of DN. Data analysis is ongoing. The results promise to shed light on the bidirectional role a latent grammar plays in L2 acquisition.
 
5.3.2026 [zoom]
Tanya Ivanova Sullivan (UCLA) & Iliana Krapova (Venedig): Clitic constructions in monolingual and heritage Bulgarian
 
März 2026 [zoom]
Haneul Choi (Urbana-Champaign): Information Structure and Object Order in Russian Ditransitives: An Experimental Study
 
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