Category Archives: Linguistics

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: Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité)Title: The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletionDate: Thu 18 AprilLocation: Lipsius 1.33Time: 16.15 – 17.30 There are four different ways in which TAM-morphology and sentential negators (SNs) may interact, summarised in (1). (1) Type A … Continue reading →

There’s one final addition to the program: Bridget Copley will give a talk on Friday 21 June, 16:30-17:45 in Lipsius 1.31 (note day, time and room changes). This is directly following the final class of the LOT school. Furthermore, George … Continue reading →

We have a few last-minute changes to the program to announce: Two extra talks and two talks which will be on another date. First, we’re happy to announce two additional ComSyn talks this semester, by Marcel den Dikken (6 June) … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

With the new semester quickly approaching, we’re delighted to announce the program for the upcoming season of ComSyn talks. The timeslot remains Thursdays, 16:15-17:30 (CET). The first two talks are in Lipsius 1.28, the remaining six are in Lipsius 1.33. … 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 →