Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Andrés Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) Title: Ellipsis as silent doubling Date: Thursday 6 April Venue: Lipsius 30 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract I address the well-known problem of the identity condition on ellipsis (semantic … Continue reading →

Speaker: Beste Kamali, Universität Bielefeld Title: Negative concord in Turkish polar questions Date: Thursday March 23 Venue: Lipsius 30 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract  Turkish is a strict negative concord (NC) language. That is, it has n-words rather than … Continue reading →

Speaker: Ora Matushansky (CNRS) Title: Matching locatives with places Date: Thursday 9 March Venue: Lipsius 30 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs   Abstract An extremely robust but previously unnoticed cross-linguistic generalization is that the distribution of locative cases is frequently restricted to … Continue reading →

Speaker: Güliz Güneş (Leiden University) & Aslı Göksel (Boğaziçi University) Title: Phonology of Agreement: optional double agreement and optional resizing of phonological words in Turkish Date: Thursday 23 February Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Lipsius 30 Abstract: THE ISSUE: Stress in Turkish … Continue reading →

Speaker: Seid Tvica (UvA) Title: The Rich Agreement Hypothesis beyond Indo-European Date: Thursday 9 February Venue: Lipsius 30 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs It is well-established in the literature that many Germanic and Romance languages differ in the placement of adverbs, appearing either before … Continue reading →

Speaker: Metin Bağrıaçık (Ghent University) Title: Relative Clauses in Asia Minor Greek Date: Thursday 8 December Venue: Matthias de Vrieshof 4/012 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs In this talk I will provide a synchronic and a diachronic account of the micro-variation in headed … Continue reading →

Speaker: Lieven Danckaert (CNRS/Université de Lille 3) Title: The syntax-prosody mapping in a dead language, the case of Late Latin BE-periphrases Date: Thursday 10 November Venue: Matthias de Vrieshof 4/012 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs In this talk I will be concerned with … Continue reading →

Speaker: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) Joint work with: Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen) Title: The Rich Agreement Hypothesis: a language universal? Date: Thursday 27 October Venue: Lipsius 235C Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs     Abstract After its initial success, the hypothesis … Continue reading →

Speaker: Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) Title: Restructuring Bridges Date: Thursday 20 October Venue: Van Eyckhof 2/005 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs     Abstract In the sentences in (1a,b) the MoodSpeechAct adverb eerlijk gezegd/honestly is surfacing in the embedded clause but must … Continue reading →