Author Archives: Laura Migliori

The next Comparative Syntax Meeting will take place on Thursday 17 October. Speaker: Dafina Ratiu (University of Nantes) Topic: Sharing at the syntax-semantics interface Time: 13:15 – 15:00 Venue: Huizinga/023 Abstract I discuss coordinated questions in Romanian, where two selected … Continue reading →

Speaker: James Griffiths (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Title: Comment clauses and Turkish ki Date: Thursday 10th October Venue: Eyckhof 1/003C Time: 13:15-15 Abstract Both hypotactic (1b) and paratactic accounts (1c) of how comment clauses such as I reckon and their hosts in … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jean Crawford (University of Connecticut) Title: Verbal passives in child English: Evidence from judgments of purpose phrases Venue: Huizinga/o25 Time: 15:15-16:30 Abstract Most maturational accounts for passive acquisition claim that the passives seen in early child speech are not … Continue reading →

Speaker: Ekaterina Chernova  (Universitat de Girona) Title: On the typology of (multiple) wh-fronting from a Q-based perspective Venue: Lipsius/235b Time: 15:15-16:30 Abstract In this talk, I will try to account on the nature of multiple wh-fronting (MWF) in Slavic languages, … Continue reading →

Title: Complementizer-trace effects: a crosslinguistic perspective Speakers: E. Boef  (ZAS Berlin) & Irene Franco (LUCL Leiden) Venue: Lipsius/235b Time: 15:15-16:30 Abstract In this talk we present ongoing research on the well-known complementizer-trace (COMP-t) effect in the lower clause of long-distance A-bar dependencies … Continue reading →

Speaker: Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut and University of Utrecht) Title: Landing sites and stranding sites Venue: Lipsius/235B Time: 15:00 – 16:30 There is a growing body of evidence for Chomsky’s claim (Chomsky 1986 and subsequent work) that vP is an … Continue reading →

Title: Configurationality and Word Order in Latin and Romance Speaker: Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) Time: 15:00 – 16:30 Venue: Lipsius 235/b Among Romance linguists of all theoretical persuasions, there is general recognition that, in the passage from Latin to … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 12 February. Speaker: Petra Sleeman ( University of Amsterdam) Title: Local and non-local gender agreement in French (joint work with Tabea Ihsane, University of Geneva) Time: 15:15- 16:30 Venue: Lipsius 235b … Continue reading →

The first ComSyn meeting will take place on 9 October  2012. Speaker: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland) Title: Case variation: Formal vs. semantic Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue:  Lipsius/2.35c Abstract Variation in case licensing is a robust phenomenon in languages that have … Continue reading →