Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Luciana Sanchez Mendes (Universidade Federal Fluminense, CNPq, Faperj) and Ana Clara Polakof (Universidad de la República, SNI) Title: Expressive interpretation of exclamative indefinites in Brazilian Portuguese and Rioplatense Spanish Date: Thu 9 Nov Location: Lipsius 2.17 Time: 16:15–17:30 The focus of this … Continue reading →

Speaker:  Mieke Slim (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Title: Are all, every and each all the same? The trajectory of universality in the development of English universal quantifiers Date: Thu 12 Oct Location: Lipsius 2.17 Time: 16:15–17:30 Most languages have multiple universal quantifiers, like … Continue reading →

Speakers:  Sjef Barbiers & Irina Morozova (LUCL) Title: How and why ONE is different Date: Thu 28 Sep Location: Lipsius 2.17 Time: 16:15–17:30 ONE has been regarded as different from the other cardinals by Borer (2005), Barbiers (2005), (2007), Her & Lai … Continue reading →

We’re looking forward to a varied programme of ComSyn talks in the upcoming season, running from September to December. All talks will be held at the usual timeslot of Thursdays, 16:15-17:30 CET. Here’s the list of speakers and dates: Speaker(s) Date … Continue reading →

Speakers:  Anikó Lipták & Crit Cremers (LUCL) Title: Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited Date: Thu 22 Jun Location: Lipsius 0.01 (note room change) Time: 16:15-17:30 Abstract: In this talk, we describe a novel ellipsis phenomenon that deletes the … Continue reading →

Speaker:  Claudia Pañeda (University of the Basque Country) Title: Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish Date: Thu 25 May Location: Lipsius 2.23/Zoom [online talk] Time: 16:15-17:30 Abstract: A-bar extraction from an embedded wh-question (e.g. ‘What did the politician want … Continue reading →

Speaker:  Molly Rolf (University of Konstanz) Title: The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty. Date: Thu 11 May Location: Lipsius 2.23 Time: 16:15-17:30 Abstract: This talk proposes that a mixed realisation of case features in the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Iva Kovač (UniWien) Title: Dissecting habituality: The Croatian know and its kin Date: Thu 4 May Location: Lipsius 2.23 Time: 16:15-17:30 Abstract: Habituality is a versatile concept bordering categories such as aspect, modality, and iterativity, and has been used to describe a … Continue reading →

Speaker: Charlotte Sant (Arctic University of Norway) Title: Comparing apples and oranges: What grinding and portioning can tell us about gender and atomicity Date: Wednesday 26th April Location: Lipsius 1.30 (note day and room change) Time: 16:15-17:30 Abstract: It is … Continue reading →

Speaker: Tamirand Nnena de Lisser (University of Guyana) Title: The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition Date: Thursday 6th April Location: Lipsius 2.23/Zoom [online talk] Time: 16:15-17:30 Abstract: This talk will explore the null subject … Continue reading →