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: Bogaards M.P.M.
Thu 5 Dec – Thomas Grano
Speaker: Thomas Grano (Indiana University)Title: Size/flavor correlations in the grammar of attitudes and modalsWhen: Thu 5 Dec, 16:15–17:30Where: Lipsius 2.08Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 685 9579 1979 / Passcode: S*ZuXg0^ Cross-linguistically, complements to ‘think’/‘believe’ verbs tend to resemble declarative main … Continue reading
Program change
Please note the following change in the ComSyn program. It has come to our attention that the talk by Thomas Grano on Oct. 10 coincides with a lecture in the LUCL Colloqium series. This talk is therefore rescheduled to Thu … Continue reading
Thu 19 Sep – Gert-Jan Schoenmakers
Speaker: Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University)Title: An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gapsWhen: Thu 19 Sep, 16:15–17:30Where: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 682 3942 3068 / Passcode: ttW+g7aq Explanations for linguistic … Continue reading
Thu 12 Sep – Jesús Olguín Martínez
Speaker: Jesús Olguín Martínez (Illinois State University)Title: Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implicationsDate: Thu 11 SepLocation: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 637 7073 0662 / Passcode: dn.q5K&JTime: 16:15 – 17:30 There are languages in … Continue reading
Thu 11 July – POSTPONED
It has been brought to our attention that the talk planned for Thursday 11 July—by Jesús Olguín Martinez—has come to overlap with the farewell event for our Grant Officer (announced last Tuesday). Since many of us will want to be … Continue reading
Mon 8 July – Yu-Yin Hsu
Speaker: Yu-Yin Hsu 許又尹 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)Title: Interaction of syntax and information structure: Focus-driven T-to-C movement of modal auxiliaries in Mandarin ChineseDate: Mon 8 July (note day change)Location: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 626 6867 6455 / … Continue reading
Fri 21 June – Bridget Copley
Speaker: Bridget Copley (SFL – CNRS/Paris 8)Title: Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case studyDate: Fri 21 June (note day change)Location: Lipsius 1.31 (note room change)Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 651 0051 9185 / … Continue reading
Thu 6 June – CANCELED
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to cancel the ComSyn talk by Marcel den Dikken, scheduled for 6 June. Jesús Olguín Martinez’ talk on 11 July will be a Zoom talk rather than an in-person talk. The rest of the … Continue reading
Thu 16 May – Jens Fleischhauer
Speaker: Jens Fleischhauer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)Title: ‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languagesDate: Thu 16 MayLocation: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 619 5663 5565 / Passcode: W$3VScD%Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Many languages exhibit a high … Continue reading
Thu 18 Apr – Karen De Clercq
Speaker: Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité)Title: The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletionDate: Thu 18 AprilLocation: Lipsius 1.33Time: 16.15 – 17.30 There are four different ways in which TAM-morphology and sentential negators (SNs) may interact, summarised in (1). (1) Type A … Continue reading