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.
Author Archives: Alem A.H.J. van
Thursday 1 March – Bernat Bardagil-Mas
Speaker: Bernat Bardagil-Mas (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen/UC Berkeley) Title: Multiple exponence and patchwork paradigms Date: Thursday 1 March Venue: Van Wijkplaats 2/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract This talk discusses participant cross-reference in Panará, a Northern Jê language spoken in central Brazil. Previous work on the language … Continue reading
Thursday 15 February – Hans Broekhuis
Speaker: Hans Broekhuis (Meertens Instituut) Title: Asymmetrical coordination Date: Thursday 15 February Venue: Van Wijkplaats 2/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Click here for the abstract
Thursday 7 December – Norbert Corver
Speaker: Norbert Corver (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University) Title: Getting imaginative with a brain full of adverbs Date: Thursday 7 December Venue: Van Eyckhof 3/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Adverbs and adverbial expressions have played a somewhat subordinate role in the history of generative … Continue reading
Thursday 26 October – Marijana Marelj
Speaker: Marijana Marelj (Utrecht University) Title: The vagueness of HAVE(ing) Date: Thursday 26 October Venue: Eyckhof 3/002 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Whether characterized as “semantically impoverished” (Butt 1995), “semi-lexical” (Corver and van Riemsdijk 2001), “vague” (Bruening 2015), or as “having no independent semantic content” (Ritter … Continue reading