Author Archives: Marieke Meelen

Speaker: Jolien Scholten (Utrecht University) Title: Split possession in dialects of Dutch Date: Thursday February 12th Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract It has been argued that European languages do not grammatically distinguish different groups of nouns in … Continue reading →

Date: Thursday 27 March 2014 Title: Adapting to atypical prosody: contrastive noun phrases in Dutch and Italian Time: 13.15-15.00u Venue: Lipsius 235c Abstract This study investigates to what extent the prosody produced by speakers in a conversation is dependent on the prosody of their … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 4 December. Speaker: Erik Schoorlemmer (LUCL) Title: The Prohibition that never was. Extraction, blocking and genitive noun complements in Serbo-Croatian. Time: 15:15-16:30 Venue: Lipsius 235c Abstract In Serbo-Croatian, sentences in which … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 20 November. Speaker: Luisa Meroni (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: Specific indefinite objects in bilingual acquisition. Time: 15:15-16:30 Venue:  Lipsius 235c Abstract Crosslinguistic influence in simultaneous bilinguals (2L1) has been claimed to lead to delay and acceleration (Paradis & … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Thursday 8 November. Speaker: Daniel Altschuler (Heinrich Heine Univesität, Düsseldorf) Title: ‘Sequence of tense’ as absence of cessation Time: 15:15-16:30 Venue:  Vrieshof 4 / 012 Abstract  It has become generally accepted in the research on the … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 23 October  2012. Speaker: Allison Kirk (LUCL) Title: The diachrony of Greek relative clauses Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue:  Lipsius/2.35c Abstract This talk focuses on changes in the structure of relative clauses (RCs) from Ancient to Modern Greek, … Continue reading →