Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Jesús Olguín Martínez (Illinois State University)Title: Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implicationsDate: Thu 11 SepLocation: Lipsius 0.01Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 637 7073 0662 / Passcode: dn.q5K&JTime: 16:15 – 17:30 There are languages in … Continue reading →

We are excited to announce a new programme of ComSyn talks that will be taking place from September to November 2024. As usual, we will meet on Thursdays, 16:15-17:30 CET, but please take into account that the final talk of … Continue reading →

It has been brought to our attention that the talk planned for Thursday 11 July—by Jesús Olguín Martinez—has come to overlap with the farewell event for our Grant Officer (announced last Tuesday). Since many of us will want to be … Continue reading →

Speaker: Yu-Yin Hsu 許又尹 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)Title: Interaction of syntax and information structure: Focus-driven T-to-C movement of modal auxiliaries in Mandarin ChineseDate: Mon 8 July (note day change)Location: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 626 6867 6455 / … Continue reading →

Speaker: Bridget Copley (SFL – CNRS/Paris 8)Title: Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case studyDate: Fri 21 June (note day change)Location: Lipsius 1.31 (note room change)Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 651 0051 9185 / … Continue reading →

Speaker: Stéphane Térosier (LUCL)Title: Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questionsDate: Thu 13 JuneLocation: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 661 6808 0486 / Passcode: 3$i2CutSTime: 16:15 – 17:30 This talk focuses on two types of … Continue reading →

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to cancel the ComSyn talk by Marcel den Dikken, scheduled for 6 June. Jesús Olguín Martinez’ talk on 11 July will be a Zoom talk rather than an in-person talk. The rest of the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jens Fleischhauer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)Title: ‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languagesDate: Thu 16 MayLocation: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Link / Meeting ID: 619 5663 5565 / Passcode: W$3VScD%Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Many languages exhibit a high … Continue reading →

Speaker: George Walkden (University of Konstanz)Title: Adult language acquisition and syntactic changeDate: Thu 2 MayLocation: Lipsius 1.33Zoom: Meeting ID: 617 3017 2255 – Passcode: 1qx8Vm4?Time: 16:15 – 17:30 This talk will assess the place of adult language acquisition as an … Continue reading →

Speaker: Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité)Title: The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletionDate: Thu 18 AprilLocation: Lipsius 1.33Time: 16.15 – 17.30 There are four different ways in which TAM-morphology and sentential negators (SNs) may interact, summarised in (1). (1) Type A … Continue reading →