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
ComSyn: Fall/Winter 2024
We are excited to announce a new programme of ComSyn talks that will be taking place from September to November 2024. As usual, we will meet on Thursdays, 16:15-17:30 CET, but please take into account that the final talk of … Continue reading
Thu 13 June – Stéphane Térosier
Speaker: Stéphane Térosier (LUCL)Title: Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questionsDate: Thu 13 JuneLocation: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 661 6808 0486 / Passcode: 3$i2CutSTime: 16:15 – 17:30 This talk focuses on two types of … Continue reading
Thu 14 March – Kyle Jerro
Speaker: Kyle Jerro (University of Essex)Title: Discourse sensitivity in argument realizationDate: Thu 14 MarchLocation: Lipsius 1.28Time: 16.15 – 17.30 Since at least Davidson (1967), semanticists have debated the relationship between a verbal predicate and its associated participants and, specifically, how participants of an event are … Continue reading
Thu 29 Feb – Malte Koot
Speaker: Malte Koot (LUCL)Title: The internal and external syntax of genoeg (‘enough’)Date: Thu 29 FebruaryLocation: Lipsius 1.28Time: 16.15 – 17.30 It has been known since Barbiers (2001) that genoeg (‘enough’) can turn predicate adverbials into sentence adverbials. When genoeg occurs in a sentence adverb, it is syntactically obligatory, but makes little … Continue reading