Category Archives: Linguistics

Title: Romanian linguistics afternoon Date: Thursday May 28th Venue: Van Eyckof 3/005 Time: 14:30 – 17:00 hrs Speakers: Dana Niculescu (U of Amsterdam) – tba Alexandru Nicolae (U of Bucharest) – “Modal Verb Configurations in Romanian” Valentina Cojocaru  (U of Bucharest/Leiden … Continue reading →

Speaker: Aliza Glasbergen-Plas (Leiden University) Title:Het/er gaat eraan vooraf: adjunction of an apparent complement clause Date: Thursday May 7　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract In Dutch, when a lexical head takes a CP-complement, sometimes a pronoun … Continue reading →

Speaker: Milan Rezac & Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS,IKER) Title: Anaphoric relationships of phi-deficient pronouns Date: Thursday April 30th Venue: Huizinga 4 Time: 15:15 – 16:30 hrs Abstract We investigate the remarkable relationship French impersonal pronoun on has to anaphoric pronouns. On … Continue reading →

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

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 →