I have been invited to give a talk on verum focus at a workshop on truth – focus – negation which will be organized by Hardarik Blühdorn (Mannheim) and Horst Lohnstein (Köln). The workshop will take place at the IDS (Institute for German Language, Mannheim) on Friday, December 3. There will be no conference fee and everybody interested is invited.

In march, two of the most famous linguists of the last century are coming to Germany! On March 16, William Labov will speak about “The Community as the Focus of Social Cognition” at the 34th International LAUD Symposium hosted by the University of Landau. And on march 24, Noam Chomsky will give a special lecture about “Poverty of Stimulus: Unfinished Business” at the University of Mainz. I think this will be a unique opportunity to see these two prominent linguists, whose names stand for two opposing approaches to the study of language, within one week in Rhineland-Palatinate.

I’ve updated the talks section of my work and uploaded the slides for many of my talks.

Today, I finally transferred my ugly and outdated iWeb homepage to WordPress. I hope that I can fill in more content during the next weeks…