Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Leonel Tadjo Fongang (Universität Leipzig) Title: Towards a Unified Theory for Noun Class Agreement in Grassfields Bantu Date: Thursday 8 December Location: Lipsius 208 Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Abstract DP-internal agreement in Grassfields Bantu languages exhibits cross-linguistically rare patterns. In … Continue reading →

Speaker: Zhen Li (LUCL) Title: Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke (Bantu B70) Date: Thursday 1 December Location: Lipsius 208 Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Abstract In this talk, I will discuss the information structure and its interactions with syntax … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marijke De Belder (Universiteit Utrecht) Title: Dutch primary compounding: towards a new inventory Date: Thursday 17 November Location: Lipsius 208 Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Abstract I present an overview of my work on Dutch primary compounding. I show that there … Continue reading →

Speaker: Romane Pedro (Nantes Université) Title: The impact of the French wh-in-situ option in the acquisition of L2 English questions: An analysis of transfer Date: Thursday 3 November Location: Lipsius 208 Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Abstract When learning a new language, … Continue reading →

Speaker: Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) Title: Pronoun interpretation and processing in Dutch and German Date: Thursday 20 October Location: Lipsius 208 Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Abstract It is well-known that Dutch-speaking children, like English-speaking children, make mistakes in … Continue reading →

The new season of ComSyn will run from October through December. Talks will be on the same day and time as the previous season: Thursdays, 16:15-17:30 CET. All talks will be in Lipsius 208. Talks are planned to be in … Continue reading →

Speaker: Prerna Nadathur (Universität Konstanz) (Joint work with Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Title: Modeling progress: event types, causal models, and the imperfective paradox Date: Thursday 2 June Venue: Online (join our mailing list to receive link) Time: 16.15 … Continue reading →

Speakers: Giuseppe Rugna (University of Florence/LUCL) Title: The morphosyntax of wh-paradigms and wh-copying Date: Thursday 19 May Venue: Lipsius 123 [note room change] Time: 15.00 – 16.15 hrs [note time change] Abstract This talk addresses the question of how grammars can … Continue reading →

Speakers: Jutta Hartmann (University of Bielefeld) Title: Syntax-Information-Structure Interaction: Data and analysis Date: Thursday 12 May Venue: Online (join our mailing list to receive link) / watch on campus in Lipsius 121 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract In this talk, … Continue reading →

Speakers: Justin Case (University of Ottawa/LUCL) Title: Constructing the Siona nominal from the bottom up: a Minimalist perspective Date: Thursday 28 April Venue: Lipsius 121 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract This talk focuses on the Ecuadorian variety of Siona, a Tukanoan … Continue reading →