Category Archives: Linguistics

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 →

There’s one final addition to the program: Bridget Copley will give a talk on Friday 21 June, 16:30-17:45 in Lipsius 1.31 (note day, time and room changes). This is directly following the final class of the LOT school. Furthermore, George … Continue reading →

We have a few last-minute changes to the program to announce: Two extra talks and two talks which will be on another date. First, we’re happy to announce two additional ComSyn talks this semester, by Marcel den Dikken (6 June) … Continue reading →

Speaker: Kyle Jerro (University of Essex)Title: Discourse sensitivity in argument realizationDate: Thu 14 MarchLocation: Lipsius 1.28Time: 16.15 – 17.30 Since at least Davidson (1967), semanticists have debated the relationship between a verbal predicate and its associated participants and, specifically, how participants of an event are … Continue reading →