Category Archives: Linguistics

Speakers: Irina Morozova & Sjef Barbiers (LUCL)Title: Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of PropertiesWhen: Thu 17 April, 16:15 – 17:30Where: Lipsius 2.23Zoom: link / Meeting ID: 633 9946 0316 / Passcode: AgNKj$2d There are at least three ways in Dutch to say that … Continue reading →

Speaker: Melle Groen (University of Tübingen)Title: Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialectsWhen: Thu 20 March, 16:15 – 17:30Where: Lipsius 2.23Zoom: link / Meeting ID: 651 1518 0819 / Passcode: &YaUi^H9 Hypothetical comparison clauses (HCCs; e.g. ‘she acted as if she were ill’) show considerable morphosyntactic … Continue reading →

Speaker: Miriam SchieleTitle: Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based ApproachWhen: Thu 6 March, 16:15 – 17:30Where: Lipsius 1.23Zoom: link / Meeting ID: 640 7326 7318 / Passcode: Mq.cK08f Preposition omission such as in Peter … Continue reading →

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 →