Author Archives: Karvovskaya E.

Our meeting resume after the summer break! We are happy to announce our preliminary schedule: 15-9 Pavel Rudnev 29-9 Probal Dasgupta 13-10  TBA 27-10 Olaf Koeneman 10-11  TBA 24-11 Alexandra Rehn (8-12)  (TBA) 14-12 Vera Gribanova

Speaker:  Jakub Dotlačil (University of Groningen) Title: Intermediate traces in mind Date: Thursday 2 June Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Eyckhof 2-003 Abstract: Since Chomsky (1973), it has been argued extensively in syntactic research that movement spanning two or more clauses proceeds in successive cycles. Furthermore, it … Continue reading →

Speaker:  Deniz Tat (Leiden Institute for Area Studies) Title: Acategorial Roots in an Agglutinating Language Date: Thursday 21 April Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Eyckhof 2-003 Abstract: One of the main claims of Distributed Morphology (DM) is that word formation occurs in syntax (Halle and Marantz 1993). … Continue reading →

Speaker: Hossam I. Ahmed (Leiden Institute for Area Studies) Title: Reconstructing Verbal Complementizers in Arabic Date: Thursday 11 February Venue: P.N. van Eyckhof 2/003 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: A class of Modern Standard Arabic complementizers known as ‘ʔinna and its sisters’ demonstrate … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marieke Meelen (LUCL) Title: Reconstructing the Rise of V2 in Middle Welsh Date: Thursday 17 December Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Middle Welsh word order has been a ‘vexed’ problem for a long time. First of all, because … Continue reading →

Speaker: Anna Volkova (Higher School of Economics (Moscow) & Utrecht University) Title: Locally bound possessives in Mordvin languages  Date: Thursday 19 November Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Reuland (2011) and Despic  (2011, forthcoming) propose the following correlation between the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jemes Griffiths (Utrecht University) Title: The syntax of reformulative appositions  Date: Thursday 5 November Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Reformulative appositions (RAs) are appositions that provide alternative and often more informative names for the referents (1a) or … Continue reading →

Speaker: Luis Vicente (the University of Potsdam) Title: ATB extraction without coordination Venue: Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15:15 – 16:00 Abstract A substantial portion of the literature treats Across-the-Board (ATB) extraction as a process restricted to coordinate structures. However, our best accounts of … Continue reading →

Speaker: Lotte Hendriks, Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis (Meertens Instituut) Title: Mapping the linguistic system Venue: Vrieshof 4 / 012 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract Speakers are able to judge syntactic constructions that are not part of their own language variety. When they are asked … Continue reading →

Speaker: Liisa Buelens (Ghent University) Title: External and Event Possession in Flemish: affected arguments Venue:  Arsenaal 112 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract In this talk I look at Flemish External Possession patterns (FEP) such as in (1) (Haegeman, 2011, Haegeman and van Koppen, 2012). These … Continue reading →