Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Hossam I. Ahmed (Leiden Institute for Area Studies) Title: Reconstructing Verbal Complementizers in Arabic Date: Thursday 11 February Venue: P.N. van Eyckhof 2/003 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: A class of Modern Standard Arabic complementizers known as ‘ʔinna and its sisters’ demonstrate … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marieke Meelen (LUCL) Title: Reconstructing the Rise of V2 in Middle Welsh Date: Thursday 17 December Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Middle Welsh word order has been a ‘vexed’ problem for a long time. First of all, because … Continue reading →

Speaker: Christos Vlachos (Queen Mary University of London) Title: Wh-inquiries revis(it)ed Date: Thursday 3 December Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract A standard (hypo)thesis, within the framework of Generative Grammar, has been that a wh-parameter may broadly classify languages … Continue reading →

Speaker: Anna Volkova (Higher School of Economics (Moscow) & Utrecht University) Title: Locally bound possessives in Mordvin languages  Date: Thursday 19 November Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Reuland (2011) and Despic  (2011, forthcoming) propose the following correlation between the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jemes Griffiths (Utrecht University) Title: The syntax of reformulative appositions  Date: Thursday 5 November Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract: Reformulative appositions (RAs) are appositions that provide alternative and often more informative names for the referents (1a) or … Continue reading →

Speaker: Mark de Vries (University of Groningen) Title: The Proleptic accusative as an exceptional Exceptional Case Marking construction Date: Thursday 29 October Venue: Van Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs Abstract This talk (representing joint work with Marjo van Koppen and … Continue reading →

Speaker: Melissa Farasyn  (University Gent) Title: Agreement patterns in Middle Low German non-restrictive relative clauses Date: Thursday 15 October Venue: Lipsius 235B Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs  Abstract In this talk I will focus on agreement patterns in Middle Low … Continue reading →

Speaker: Seid Tvica (University of Amsterdam) Title: Rich Agreement Hypothesis beyond Indo-European Date: Thursday 1 October Venue: Wijkplaats 3/ room 006 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs  Abstract It is well-established in the literature that many Germanic and Romance languages differ … Continue reading →

Speaker: Hadas Kotek (McGill University) Title: Pervasive intervention and the architecture of grammar Date: Wednesday 23 September Venue: De Vrieshof 4/010 Time: 13.30-14.45 hrs (NB. Different day and time than the other lectures) Abstract I propose a new theory of … Continue reading →

Speaker: Luis Vicente (the University of Potsdam) Title: ATB extraction without coordination Venue: Wijkplaats 3/006 Time: 15:15 – 16:00 Abstract A substantial portion of the literature treats Across-the-Board (ATB) extraction as a process restricted to coordinate structures. However, our best accounts of … Continue reading →