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, Irina Morozova and Stéphane Térosier.
Upcoming talks
Spring/Summer 2024
29 Feb Malte Koot (LUCL) 14 Mar Kyle Jerro (University of Essex) 4 AprGert-Jan Schoenmakers
(POSTPONED)18 Apr Karen De Clercq
(CNRS/Université Paris Cité)2 May George Walkden
(Universität Konstanz)16 May Jens Fleischhauer
(Heinrich-Heine Universität
Düsseldorf)6 Jun Marcel den Dikken
(Eötvös Loránd University)13 Jun Stéphane Térosier (LUCL) 21 Jun Bridget Copley
(CNRS/Université Paris 8)8 Jul Yu-Yin Hsu (許又尹)
(Hong Kong Polytechnic)11 Jul Jesús Olguín Martinez
(Illinois State University)The first two talks are in Lipsius 1.28, the talk on 21 June is in Lipsius 1.31, all other talks are in Lipsius 1.33. All talks will be livestreamed on Zoom—please join our mailing list for the links.
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Thursday 12 October – Cora Pots
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
Thursday 28 September – Gertjan Postma
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
Thursday 21 September – Hiromu Sakai
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
Wednesday 26 April – James Griffiths
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
Thursday 13 April – Jaklin Kornfilt ***DATE CHANGED***
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
Thursday 9 February – Seid Tvica
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
Wednesday 14 December – Vera Gribanova
Speaker: Vera Gribanova (Stanford University) Title: On head movement and the verbal identity condition in ellipsis Date: Wednesday 14 December Venue: Matthias de Vrieshof 2/001 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs In this talk I present recent developments in our understanding of the mechanisms … Continue reading
Thursday 8 December – Metin Bağrıaçık
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
Thursday 10 November – Lieven Danckaert
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
Thursday 15 September – Pavel Rudnev
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