Author Archives: Karvovskaya E.

Speaker: Cora Pots (KU Leuven) Title: Te wel of niet (te) hoeven (te) plaatsen: Variation in te-placement in Dutch non-finite verb clusters Date: Thursday 12 October Venue: Eyckhof 3/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: The morphosyntactic variation in Dutch finite verb clusters has been studied extensively (Barbiers … Continue reading →

Speaker: Gertjan Postma (Meertens Instituut) Title: Loss of the infinitival marker tau ‘to’ in Brazilian Pomeranian: language converence or accommodation to Portuguese? Date: Thursday 28 September Venue: Eyckhof 3/002 Time: 16.00-17.15 hrs (Different time than usual) Abstract: When various dialects enter in intense and prolonged mutual contact in a new … Continue reading →

Speaker: Hiromu Sakai (Waseda University) Title: Typological variation in the time-course of sentence production. A view from eye-tracking studies on Kaqchikel, Spanish, and Japanese. Date: Thursday 21 September Venue: Eyckhof 2/004 (room changed!) Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Native speakers can produce sentences describing a simple event in … Continue reading →

Speaker: James Griffiths (University of Konstanz/LUCL) Title: Echo fragments: preliminary remarks Date: Wednesday 26 April Venue: Lipsius 30 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs   Abstract  Echo fragments (1b) are the fragmentary (i.e. elliptical) versions of true echo questions (1a) (Sobin 2010). Context: A and B are organising … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jaklin Kornfilt  (Syracuse University) Title: NP versus DP: A cross-linguistic parameter? Date: Thursday 13 April Venue: Lipsius 307 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs In a series of studies, Bošković (e.g. 2008, 2012, 2013) proposes a linguistic typology based on a posited … Continue reading →

Speaker: Seid Tvica (UvA) Title: The Rich Agreement Hypothesis beyond Indo-European Date: Thursday 9 February Venue: Lipsius 30 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs It is well-established in the literature that many Germanic and Romance languages differ in the placement of adverbs, appearing either before … Continue reading →

Speaker: Metin Bağrıaçık (Ghent University) Title: Relative Clauses in Asia Minor Greek Date: Thursday 8 December Venue: Matthias de Vrieshof 4/012 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs In this talk I will provide a synchronic and a diachronic account of the micro-variation in headed … Continue reading →

Speaker: Lieven Danckaert (CNRS/Université de Lille 3) Title: The syntax-prosody mapping in a dead language, the case of Late Latin BE-periphrases Date: Thursday 10 November Venue: Matthias de Vrieshof 4/012 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs In this talk I will be concerned with … Continue reading →

Speaker: Pavel Rudnev (University of Groningen) Title: PPI-disjunctions in Russian Date: Thursday 15 September Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Lipsius 235C Abstract:  We know since at least Szabolcsi (2002) that disjunction markers in certain languages display remarkable similarities with some in English, similarities attributable to both groups of … Continue reading →