About ComSyn
ComSyn started out as discussion group about Comparative Syntax at Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL). It has since grown into a series of lectures about (Comparative) Syntax. Speakers from all over the world are welcome to present their work in an informal setting. ComSyn is the perfect place to present work in progress, do a dry run for a conference, or simply share a syntactic puzzle with fellow linguists. If you have any suggestions, please contact one of the organizers—Maarten Bogaards and Irina Morozova.
Upcoming talks
Fall/Winter 2024
12 Sept Jesús Olguín Martinez (Illinois) 19 Sept Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (UU) 10 OctThomas Grano (Indiana)17 Oct Fábio Bonfim Duarte
(Minais Gerais)31 Oct Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL) 21 Nov Richard S. Kayne (NYU) 5 Dec Thomas Grano (Indiana) ComSyn talks are on Thursdays from 16:15-17:30. All talks except for the last two are in Lipsius 0.01. The talk by Richard Kayne on 21 Nov is in Lipsius 1.33 and starts half an hour earlier (15:45-17:00). The talk by Thomas Grano on 5 Dec is in Lipsius 2.08. All talks are livestreamed on Zoom.
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Thursday 24 March – Enoch Aboh
Speaker: Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) Title: Back to D Date: Thursday 24 March Venue: Van Eyckhof 2/003 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract In this paper, I return to a debate I had at a distance with Zeljko Bošković in the … Continue reading
Thursday 3 December – Christos Vlachos
Speaker: Christos Vlachos (Queen Mary University of London) Title: Wh-inquiries revis(it)ed Date: Thursday 3 December Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract A standard (hypo)thesis, within the framework of Generative Grammar, has been that a wh-parameter may broadly classify languages … Continue reading
Thursday 29 October – Mark de Vries
Speaker: Mark de Vries (University of Groningen) Title: The Proleptic accusative as an exceptional Exceptional Case Marking construction Date: Thursday 29 October Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract This talk (representing joint work with Marjo van Koppen and … Continue reading
Wednesday 23 September – Hadas Kotek
Speaker: Hadas Kotek (McGill University) Title: Pervasive intervention and the architecture of grammar Date: Wednesday 23 September Venue: De Vrieshof 4/010 Time: 13.30-14.45 hrs (NB. Different day and time than the other lectures) Abstract I propose a new theory of … Continue reading
Thursday May 28th
Title: Romanian linguistics afternoon Date: Thursday May 28th Venue: Van Eyckof 3/005 Time: 14:30 – 17:00 hrs Speakers: Dana Niculescu (U of Amsterdam) – tba Alexandru Nicolae (U of Bucharest) – “Modal Verb Configurations in Romanian” Valentina Cojocaru (U of Bucharest/Leiden … Continue reading
Thursday April 30th
Speaker: Milan Rezac & Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS,IKER) Title: Anaphoric relationships of phi-deficient pronouns Date: Thursday April 30th Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract We investigate the remarkable relationship French impersonal pronoun on has to anaphoric pronouns. On … Continue reading
Thursday April 9th
Speakers: Kazuko Yatsushiro & Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) Title: Genitive Case on Japanese Quantifiers: The Place of the Reverse Partitive Analysis Date: Thursday April 9th Venue: Eyckhof 2/ room 006 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract In Japanese noun phrases, quantificational … Continue reading
Thursday 26 February
Speaker: Linda Badan (École Normale Supérieure, Paris) & Lisa L. Cheng (Leiden University) Title: Exclamatives in Mandarin Chinese Date: Thursday February 26th Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract This talk deals with exclamatives in Mandarin and has two main objectives. The first … Continue reading