Author Archives: Alem A.H.J. van

Speaker: Alexandra Vydrina (CNRS) Title: From addressee-oriented deixis to a reflexive: the case of the pronoun ì in Kakabe (Mande) Date: Thursday 12 November Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract It is not uncommon … Continue reading →

Speaker: Melissa Farasyn (Ghent) Title: Nature and origin of v>2 in the French Flemish dialects: archaisms and novelties in a split left periphery Date: Thursday 15 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In … Continue reading →

Speaker: Sjef Barbiers and Astrid van Alem (Leiden) Title: Poor weak ‘t (it) and the syntax of pronominal clefts Date: Thursday 18 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs This paper … Continue reading →

Speaker: Nikos Angelopoulos (CRISSP, KU Leuven) Title: Complementizers as probes Date: Thursday 4 June Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers to get access to the talk) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract

Speaker: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS & U. Paris-8) Title: Two superiority comparatives in Hiatian Creole Date:  Thursday 23 April Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers to get access to the talk) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs  Abstract

Speaker: Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz) Title: Deriving lexical categories: valued and unvalued classifiers and classifier-relativization Date: Thursday 9 April Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list for details) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs  Abstract I tackle the status of the controversial lexical categories: … Continue reading →

Speaker: Astrid van Alem (Leiden) Title: Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: evidence from intervention effects Date: Thursday 26 September Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract It is well known that many non-standard West-Germanic languages have Complementizer Agreement: not only … Continue reading →

Speaker: Myrthe Bergstra (Utrecht University) Title: Micro-variation, contact and change: the absentive in Frisian and Dutch Date: Thursday 14 February Venue: Van Eyckhof 2/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract

Speaker: Caitlin Meyer (University of Amsterdam) Title: Rule and order: using structure to acquire ordinal numerals Date: Thursday 29 November Venue: Van Eyckhof 3/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs drinks: Cafe de Keyzer Abstract: This talk compares the acquisition of ordinals in … Continue reading →

Speaker: Siavash Rafiee Rad (Leiden University) Title: The Semantics of Ellipsis in Persian Complex Predicates Date: Thursday 15 November Venue: Van Eyckhof 3/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs drinks: Cafe de Keyzer Abstract: The study of Ellipsis has been of special interest to scholars of linguistics. One … Continue reading →