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: Irina Morozova
Thu 31 Oct – Jenneke van der Wal
Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL)Title: Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisitedWhen: Thu 31 Oct, 16.15-17.30Where: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 651 1843 4869 / Passcode: 3wF.zpnn Term focus in Kîîtharaka (Bantu E54, Kenya) can be expressed by marking the … Continue reading
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Thu 17 Oct – Fábio Bonfim Duarte
Speaker: Fábio Bonfim Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais)Title: Head-finality, Predicate Fronting and Spell-out DomainsWhen: Thu 17 Oct, 16:15–17:30Where: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 666 5595 3390 / Passcode: q@X8&R2Y Tenetehára root clauses exhibit a complex subset of sentence-final … Continue reading
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