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.
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The Comparative Syntax Meetings will resume in September
The Com(parative) Syn(tax) Meetings will resume in September. We wish you a very nice summer! Kind regards, The ComSyn organizers
Thursday 8 May – Norma Schifano
Speaker: Norma Schifano (University of Cambridge) Title: The paradigmatic instantiation of TAM: a novel approach to Romance Verb-Movement Venue: Lipsius/235C Time: 13:15 – 15:00 Abstract The aim of this talk is to explore the placement of the finite lexical verb … Continue reading
Tuesday 8 April – Caterina Donati
Speaker: Caterina Donati (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) Title: What do labels do: deciding between the external and internal definition Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue: Lipsius/148
Thursday 13 March – Marko Hladnik
Speaker: Marko Hladnik (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: The diverse origins of resumption – Feature recoverability and processing in relative clauses Time: 13:13-15:00 Venue: Lipsus/235C Abstract Relative clauses in Slavic languages can be formed in two ways: they are either introduced by … Continue reading
Thursday 27 February – Gertjan Postma
Speaker: Gertjan Postma (Meertens Instituut) Title: A Germanic language island in Brazil: generalized T-to-C in Brazilian Pomeranian Time: 13:15 – 15: 00 Venue: Lipsius/235C Abstract Pomeranian is the coastal dialect of Continental Germanic between the Oder river and the Vistula … Continue reading
Wednesday 5th February – Jenneke van der Wal
Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge) Topic: From macroparameters to nanoparameters: a comparative Bantu case study Time: 13:15 -14:30 Venue: Eyckhof 2/006 Abstract According to the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture (Baker 2008), all parameters of variation are attributable to differences … Continue reading
Thursday 30 January – Bettina Gruber
Speaker: Bettina Gruber (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: The Spatiotemporal Dimensions of Person Time: 13:15-14:30 Venue: Eyckhof 1/003C Abstract In this talk, I will take a closer look at the deictic and grammatical category person and its associated linguistic expressions: indexical, i.e. … Continue reading
The Comparative Syntax Meetings will resume in January
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21 November – Sjef Barbiers
Speaker: Sjef Barbiers (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: Landing sites and stranding sites Time: 13:15 – 14:30 Venue:Eyckhof2/004 Abstract There is a growing body of evidence for Chomsky’s claim (Chomsky 1986 and subsequent work) that vP is an intermediate landing site for … Continue reading
Tuesday 12th November – Phoevos Panagiotidis
Speaker: Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) Title: Lexical categories: roots and domains of interpretation Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Venue: Eyckhof 3/005 Abstract In this talk I will make three claims: a. That roots in isolation, i.e. outside grammatical structure, are … Continue reading