Author Archives: S. Térosier

Speaker: George Walkden (University of Konstanz)Title: Adult language acquisition and syntactic changeDate: Thu 2 MayLocation: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Meeting ID: 617 3017 2255 – Passcode: 1qx8Vm4?Time: 16:15 – 17:30 This talk will assess the place of adult language acquisition as an … Continue reading →

Speaker: Thom Westveer (UvA)Title: Partitive constructions meet gender agreement: Gender agreement mismatches in French and German partitivesDate: Thu 21 DecLocation: Lipsius 2.17Time: 16:15-17:30 In languages with overt gender agreement morphology, partitive constructions involving human referents may give rise to mixed … Continue reading →

Speaker: Elise Newman (MIT)Title: When wh-phrases are their own intervenersDate: Thu 14 DecLocation: Zoom & Lipsius 2.17Time: 16:15-17:30 Much work on syntactic locality has shown that processes like wh-movement are subject to several kinds of locality restrictions. In addition to … Continue reading →

Speaker: Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford)Title: Allomorphy of ‘One’ and ‘Two’ in Mandarin ChineseDate: Thu 7 DecLocation: Zoom & Lipsius 2.17Time: 16:15-17:30 In many languages numerals may appear in different forms depending on the context, which Greenberg (1978) called the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Luciana Sanchez Mendes (Universidade Federal Fluminense, CNPq, Faperj) and Ana Clara Polakof (Universidad de la República, SNI) Title: Expressive interpretation of exclamative indefinites in Brazilian Portuguese and Rioplatense Spanish Date: Thu 9 Nov Location: Lipsius 2.17 Time: 16:15–17:30 The focus of this … Continue reading →