Activities

2023

• August 7-11, 2023: Hiwa Asadpour: Efficient behavior and Target word order variation in  low-resource languages of northwest Iran. Presentation at the 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC16), Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.
• July 19-21, 2023: Hiwa Asadpour: A comparative study of Target Word Order Variation among the low-resource languages of northwestern Iran. Presentation at the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), University of Mannheim, Germany
• July 7-9, 2023: Manfred Sailer & Nicolas Lamoure: Superlative ‘ever’ in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish. Presentation at the 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
• April 8-9, 2023: Hiwa Asadpour: Positioning Kurdish Varieties in Japan within the Dialectal Variation of the Greater Kurdistan. Presentation at the Workshop on Migration to Japan – Focus on Kurdish Communities, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
• March 8-10, 2023: Workshop at DGfS 2023, Cologne:
  Coexistence, competition, and change: Structural borrowing and the dynamics of asymmetric language contact.
  Workshop page: DGfS 2023, AG3: Coexistence, competition, and change

2022

• July 29-31, 2022: Hiwa Asadpour, Shene Hassan & Manfred Sailer: Non-wh relatives in English and Kurdish: Constraints on grammar and use. Presentation at the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Tokyo.
  (abstract, slides, video)
• June 16-20, 2022: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Low-Resource Languages (ETPOLL2022) – Passive and relative clause structures