Category Archives: Linguistics

We are happy to announce the ComSyn programme for the spring semester. All talks will take place on Thursdays at usual time, 16:15-17:30 CET. We will continue to stream offline talks via Zoom. For online talks you are also welcome to join us … Continue reading →

Speaker: Thomas Grano (Indiana University)Title: Size/flavor correlations in the grammar of attitudes and modalsWhen: Thu 5 Dec, 16:15–17:30Where: Lipsius 2.08Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 685 9579 1979 / Passcode: S*ZuXg0^ Cross-linguistically, complements to ‘think’/‘believe’ verbs tend to resemble declarative main … Continue reading →

Speaker: Richard S. Kayne (NYU)Title: The DP-Internal Origin of DativesWhen: Thu 21 Nov, 15.45-17.00 (please note the time change!)Where: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 629 5474 2232 / Passcode: u^7gBg9! Bringing together Szabolcsi’s work on Hungarian possessive sentences, the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL)Title: Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisitedWhen: Thu 31 Oct, 16.15-17.30Where: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 651 1843 4869 / Passcode: 3wF.zpnn Term focus in Kîîtharaka (Bantu E54, Kenya) can be expressed by marking the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Fábio Bonfim Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais)Title: Head-finality, Predicate Fronting and Spell-out DomainsWhen: Thu 17 Oct, 16:15–17:30Where: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 666 5595 3390 / Passcode: q@X8&R2Y Tenetehára root clauses exhibit a complex subset of sentence-final … Continue reading →

Please note the following change in the ComSyn program. It has come to our attention that the talk by Thomas Grano on Oct. 10 coincides with a lecture in the LUCL Colloqium series. This talk is therefore rescheduled to Thu … Continue reading →

Speaker: Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University)Title: An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gapsWhen: Thu 19 Sep, 16:15–17:30Where: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 682 3942 3068 / Passcode: ttW+g7aq Explanations for linguistic … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jesús Olguín Martínez (Illinois State University)Title: Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implicationsDate: Thu 11 SepLocation: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 637 7073 0662 / Passcode: dn.q5K&JTime: 16:15 – 17:30 There are languages in … Continue reading →

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 →

It has been brought to our attention that the talk planned for Thursday 11 July—by Jesús Olguín Martinez—has come to overlap with the farewell event for our Grant Officer (announced last Tuesday). Since many of us will want to be … Continue reading →