About ComSyn
ComSyn started as discussion group about Comparative Syntax at Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL). Now, it is primarily a series of lectures about (comparative) syntax. Speakers from all over the world are very welcome to present their work in an informal setting. ComSyn is the perfect place to present work in progress, do a mock defense, do dry runs for a conference or simply present a syntactic problem one would like to share with other people. If you have any suggestions, please contact one of the organisers, Lena Karvovskaya, Yang Yang and Aliza Glasbergen-Plas.Upcoming talks
Spring - Summer 2017
9 February: Seid Tvica
23 February: Güliz Günes
9 March: Ora Matushansky
23 March: Beste Kamali
6 April: Andrés Saab
13 April: Jaklin Kornfilt
20 April: Heidi Klockman
26 April: James Griffiths (Note: a different day)
11 May: Neda Todorovic
15 June: Christos Vlachos
TBA: Jason Merchant
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Tuesday 26 March – Eefje Boef & Irene Franco
Title: Complementizer-trace effects: a crosslinguistic perspective Speakers: E. Boef (ZAS Berlin) & Irene Franco (LUCL Leiden) Venue: Lipsius/235b Time: 15:15-16:30 Abstract In this talk we present ongoing research on the well-known complementizer-trace (COMP-t) effect in the lower clause of long-distance A-bar dependencies … Continue reading
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Tuesday 12 March – Sjef Barbiers
Speaker: Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut and University of Utrecht) Title: Landing sites and stranding sites Venue: Lipsius/235B Time: 15:00 – 16:30 There is a growing body of evidence for Chomsky’s claim (Chomsky 1986 and subsequent work) that vP is an … Continue reading
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