Category Archives: Linguistics

Speakers: Kazuko Yatsushiro & Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) Title: Genitive Case on Japanese Quantifiers: The Place of the Reverse Partitive Analysis Date: Thursday April 9th Venue: Eyckhof 2/ room 006 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract In Japanese noun phrases, quantificational … Continue reading →

Speaker: Mirjam Hachem(Utrecht Institute of Linguistics) Title: Gender Classifies Mass Date: Thursday March 26　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs                                                                  Abstract In this talk, I will deal with both the syntactic and semantic dimension of grammatical gender … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marjo van Koppen (Universiteit Utrecht)  and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven) Title: Identifying Parameters Date: Thursday March 12 Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract This talk (i) explores a new tool that offers a unique window into microparameters, … Continue reading →

Speaker: Linda Badan (École Normale Supérieure, Paris) & Lisa L. Cheng (Leiden University) Title: Exclamatives in Mandarin Chinese Date: Thursday February 26th Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract This talk deals with exclamatives in Mandarin and has two main objectives. The first … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jolien Scholten (Utrecht University) Title: Split possession in dialects of Dutch Date: Thursday February 12th Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract It has been argued that European languages do not grammatically distinguish different groups of nouns in … Continue reading →

Speaker: Lotte Hendriks, Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis (Meertens Instituut) Title: Mapping the linguistic system Venue: Vrieshof 4 / 012 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract Speakers are able to judge syntactic constructions that are not part of their own language variety. When they are asked … Continue reading →

Speaker: Liisa Buelens (Ghent University) Title: External and Event Possession in Flemish: affected arguments Venue:  Arsenaal 112 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract In this talk I look at Flemish External Possession patterns (FEP) such as in (1) (Haegeman, 2011, Haegeman and van Koppen, 2012). These … Continue reading →

Speaker: Bernat Bardagil-Mas (CLCG University of Groningen) Title: Panará and the Case of Doubled Clitics Venue:  Huizinga – 7 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 Abstract This talk aims to present some ideas on some seemingly polysynthetic properties of Panará, a Jê language spoken in the Brazilian … Continue reading →

The Com(parative) Syn(tax) Meetings will resume in September. We wish you a very nice summer! Kind regards, The ComSyn organizers

Speaker: Norma Schifano (University of Cambridge) Title: The paradigmatic instantiation of TAM: a novel approach to Romance Verb-Movement Venue: Lipsius/235C Time: 13:15 – 15:00 Abstract The aim of this talk is to explore the placement of the finite lexical verb … Continue reading →