Category Archives: Linguistics

Title: Configurationality and Word Order in Latin and Romance Speaker: Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) Time: 15:00 – 16:30 Venue: Lipsius 235/b Among Romance linguists of all theoretical persuasions, there is general recognition that, in the passage from Latin to … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 12 February. Speaker: Petra Sleeman ( University of Amsterdam) Title: Local and non-local gender agreement in French (joint work with Tabea Ihsane, University of Geneva) Time: 15:15- 16:30 Venue: Lipsius 235b … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 4 December. Speaker: Erik Schoorlemmer (LUCL) Title: The Prohibition that never was. Extraction, blocking and genitive noun complements in Serbo-Croatian. Time: 15:15-16:30 Venue: Lipsius 235c Abstract In Serbo-Croatian, sentences in which … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 20 November. Speaker: Luisa Meroni (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: Specific indefinite objects in bilingual acquisition. Time: 15:15-16:30 Venue:  Lipsius 235c Abstract Crosslinguistic influence in simultaneous bilinguals (2L1) has been claimed to lead to delay and acceleration (Paradis & … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Thursday 8 November. Speaker: Daniel Altschuler (Heinrich Heine Univesität, Düsseldorf) Title: ‘Sequence of tense’ as absence of cessation Time: 15:15-16:30 Venue:  Vrieshof 4 / 012 Abstract  It has become generally accepted in the research on the … Continue reading →

The next ComSyn meeting will take place on Tuesday 23 October  2012. Speaker: Allison Kirk (LUCL) Title: The diachrony of Greek relative clauses Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue:  Lipsius/2.35c Abstract This talk focuses on changes in the structure of relative clauses (RCs) from Ancient to Modern Greek, … Continue reading →

The first ComSyn meeting will take place on 9 October  2012. Speaker: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland) Title: Case variation: Formal vs. semantic Time: 15:15-17:00 Venue:  Lipsius/2.35c Abstract Variation in case licensing is a robust phenomenon in languages that have … Continue reading →