Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Probal Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute) Title:  Arbitrariness at the agreement-classifier boundary Date: Thursday 29 September Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Lipsius 235C Abstract: Classifiers may initially strike an agr[eement] language speaker as expressing Number plus obscure content. Once we put Gender in the picture, however, new … Continue reading →

Speaker: Pavel Rudnev (University of Groningen) Title: PPI-disjunctions in Russian Date: Thursday 15 September Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Lipsius 235C Abstract:  We know since at least Szabolcsi (2002) that disjunction markers in certain languages display remarkable similarities with some in English, similarities attributable to both groups of … Continue reading →

Our meeting resume after the summer break! We are happy to announce our preliminary schedule: 15-9 Pavel Rudnev 29-9 Probal Dasgupta 13-10  TBA 27-10 Olaf Koeneman 10-11  TBA 24-11 Alexandra Rehn (8-12)  (TBA) 14-12 Vera Gribanova

Speaker:  Jakub Dotlačil (University of Groningen) Title: Intermediate traces in mind Date: Thursday 2 June Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Eyckhof 2-003 Abstract: Since Chomsky (1973), it has been argued extensively in syntactic research that movement spanning two or more clauses proceeds in successive cycles. Furthermore, it … Continue reading →

NB. Different day, different room Speaker: Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto*  (Leiden University) Title: Ungrammatical configuration: experimental evidence from code-switching Date: Tuesday 17 May Venue: Van Eyckhof 1/003C Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs  *Joint work with Luis López (University of Illinois at … Continue reading →

Speaker:  Deniz Tat (Leiden Institute for Area Studies) Title: Acategorial Roots in an Agglutinating Language Date: Thursday 21 April Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Eyckhof 2-003 Abstract: One of the main claims of Distributed Morphology (DM) is that word formation occurs in syntax (Halle and Marantz 1993). … Continue reading →

Speaker: Heidi Klockmann (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS) Title: The syntax of quantificational elements:drawing on insights from the distribution of features in the DP Date: Thursday April 7　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Venue: Van Eyckhof 2/003 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract  In this … Continue reading →

Speaker: Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) Title: Back to D Date: Thursday 24 March Venue: Van Eyckhof 2/003 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract In this paper, I return to a debate I had at a distance with Zeljko Bošković in the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai Title: Operator Binding and the Syntax of Analyticity Date: Thursday 10 March Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Eyckhof 2-003 Abstract:  In this talk, we entertain the possibility that peripheral features play a crucial role in the formation of the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Maria Tenizi Title: Revealing Α Possible Do-Support Technique in Cypriot-Greek. Implications and Analysis of the Left Periphery Date: Thursday 25 February Time: 15.15-16.30 Venue: Eyckhof 2-003 Abstract:  The presentation will point at Cypriot-Greek syntax through data analysis and overview. … Continue reading →