Category Archives: Linguistics

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 →

Speaker: Caterina Donati (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) Title: What do labels do: deciding between the external and internal definition Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue: Lipsius/148

Date: Thursday 27 March 2014 Title: Adapting to atypical prosody: contrastive noun phrases in Dutch and Italian Time: 13.15-15.00u Venue: Lipsius 235c Abstract This study investigates to what extent the prosody produced by speakers in a conversation is dependent on the prosody of their … Continue reading →

Speaker: Luis Lopez (UIC) Title: Remarks on the syntactification of morphology Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue: Wijkplaats 4/001 Abstract Taking a Distributed Morphology model as a starting point, the talk will present the hypothesis that parallel computations drive some word-formation processes. It will be argued that complex … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marko Hladnik (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: The diverse origins of resumption – Feature recoverability and processing in relative clauses Time: 13:13-15:00 Venue: Lipsus/235C Abstract Relative clauses in Slavic languages can be formed in two ways: they are either introduced by … Continue reading →

Speaker: Gertjan Postma (Meertens Instituut) Title: A Germanic language island in Brazil: generalized T-to-C in Brazilian Pomeranian Time: 13:15 – 15: 00 Venue: Lipsius/235C Abstract Pomeranian is the coastal dialect of Continental Germanic between the Oder river and the Vistula … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge) Topic: From macroparameters to nanoparameters: a comparative Bantu case study Time: 13:15 -14:30 Venue: Eyckhof 2/006 Abstract According to the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture (Baker 2008), all parameters of variation are attributable to differences … Continue reading →