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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