About ComSyn
ComSyn started as discussion group about Comparative Syntax at Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL). Now, it is primarily a series of lectures about (comparative) syntax. Speakers from all over the world are very welcome to present their work in an informal setting. ComSyn is the perfect place to present work in progress, do a mock defense, do dry runs for a conference or simply present a syntactic problem one would like to share with other people. If you have any suggestions, please contact one of the organisers, Hang Cheng, Elisabeth Kerr, Astrid van Alem, and Maarten Bogaards.
Upcoming talks
Autumn/Winter 2020
1 Oct – Maria Kouneli
8 Oct – András Bárány + Jenneke van der Wal
15 Oct – Melissa Farasyn
29 Oct – Yining Nie
12 Nov – Alexandra Vydrina
26 Nov – Richard Stockwell
10 Dec – Olaf Koeneman + Hedde ZijlstraAll talks are now held on Skype (please join our mailing list for the links).
Category Archives: Linguistics
Thursday 10 December – Olaf Koeneman & Hedde Zijlstra
Speaker: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) & Hedde Zijlstra (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Title: Deriving pro drop in a non-paradigmatic way Date: Thursday 10 December Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Apart from incidental contexts in which Germanic … Continue reading
Thursday 26 November – Richard Stockwell
Speaker: Richard Stockwell (Oxford University) Title: Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition Date: Thursday 26 November Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract This talk, based on my recent UCLA dissertation, argues … Continue reading
Thursday 12 November – Alexandra Vydrina
Speaker: Alexandra Vydrina (CNRS) Title: From addressee-oriented deixis to a reflexive: the case of the pronoun ì in Kakabe (Mande) Date: Thursday 12 November Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract It is not uncommon … Continue reading
Thursday 29 October – Yining Nie
Speaker: Yining Nie (NYU) Title: Two ways of forming causatives and their implications for recursion Date: Thursday 29 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Syntactic approaches to the causative alternation disagree as to … Continue reading
Thursday 15 October – Melissa Farasyn
Speaker: Melissa Farasyn (Ghent) Title: Nature and origin of v>2 in the French Flemish dialects: archaisms and novelties in a split left periphery Date: Thursday 15 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In … Continue reading
Thursday 8 October – András Bárány & Jenneke van der Wal
Speaker: András Bárány (Bielefeld/LUCL) and Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL) Title: We don’t Agree (only) upwards Date: Thursday 8 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Bjorkman and Zeijlstra (2019) … Continue reading
Thursday 1 October – Maria Kouneli
The new ComSyn season is starting! Due to the coronavirus situation, all talks this season will be held online via Skype. Please sign up for the mailing list / contact the ComSyn organizers for links to the talk (note that … Continue reading
Thursday 18 June – Sjef Barbiers and Astrid van Alem
Speaker: Sjef Barbiers and Astrid van Alem (Leiden) Title: Poor weak ‘t (it) and the syntax of pronominal clefts Date: Thursday 18 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs This paper … Continue reading
Thursday 4 June – Nikos Angelopoulos
Speaker: Nikos Angelopoulos (CRISSP, KU Leuven) Title: Complementizers as probes Date: Thursday 4 June Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers to get access to the talk) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract
Thursday 14 May – Marcel den Dikken
Speaker: Marcel den Dikken (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Title: Unmatched and unparalleled: Voice mismatches in ellipsis — Analysis and theoretical implications Date: Thursday 14 May Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers … Continue reading