Lecture: The Neural Oscillations of Language Processing: Examples from German

Under the auspices of the Franklin College International Faculty Exchange Program, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The visit includes a public lecture on February 20th at 4pm entitled "The Neural Oscillations of Language Processing: Examples from German." Dr. Meyer has a research collaboration at UGA with John Hale; Hale will reciprocally visit Leipzig later in the year.

Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld publishes "The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German 'VP'-fronting"

Photograph of Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld in front of greenery

Congratulations to Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Linguistics, University of Georgia and Dr. Anya Lunden, English, College of William & Mary on their paper: "The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German 'VP'-fronting" which was published in The Linguistic Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2018-2012

The paper explores fronted verb phrases in German, drawing attention to the difference between passive/unaccusative VPs and fronted agentive vPs. 

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