Author Archives: Cheng H.

Speaker: Zhaole Yang & Hang Cheng (Leiden University) Title: On Mandarin propositional assertion sentences with shì and de Date: Thursday 17 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In Mandarin, a number of different constructions surface with … Continue reading →

Speaker: Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Title: Requiem for a Theme Date: Thursday 3 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15:15-16:30   Abstract: Conjugation classes in Romance and beyond are typically seen as not contributing anything deterministic to the syntax … Continue reading →

Speaker: Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: The grammar of knowing: A lesson from cross-linguistic patterns for markedness Date: Thursday 20 May Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In this talk, I present evidence … Continue reading →

Speaker: Zoë Belk, Ad Neeleman and Joy Philip (UCL) Title: What divides, and what unites, right-node raising Date: Thursday 18 March Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: We argue, following Barros and Vicente … Continue reading →

Speaker: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) & Hedde Zijlstra (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Title: Deriving pro drop in a non-paradigmatic way Date: Thursday 10 December Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Apart from incidental contexts in which Germanic … Continue reading →

Speaker: Zorica Puskar (ZAS) Title: Multiple Challenges of Multiple Agreement Date: Thursday 30 April Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list for details) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs  Abstract In some languages where finite verbs morphologically index both subject (S) and object (O) … Continue reading →

Speaker: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) and Hedde Zeijlstra ( Georg-August-University) Title: A new look at full, no and partial pro-drop Date: Thursday 26 March POSTPONED Venue: Wijkplaats 2/005 Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract here

Speaker: Carlos Muñoz Pérez (PUCC)  Joint work in progress with Matias Verdecchia (UBA) Title: Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic copying Date: Thursday 13 February Venue: Wijkplaats 2/005 Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract: 20200213-carlos-abstract

Speaker: Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Oxford University) Title: On verbal elasticity: the stative-eventive alternation in perception verbs in Germanic Date: Thursday 05 December Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.45 (!)-17.00 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract: 20191205-Victor-abstract

Speaker: András Bárány (Leiden University) Title: Syntactic and typological aspects of a typological gap in ditransitive constructions Date: Thursday 7 November Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract Like (in)transitive constructions, ditransitive constructions can be characterised as showing different alignment … Continue reading →