Category Archives: Linguistics

Speakers: Kristel Doreleijers (Tilburg University/Meertens Institute) & Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University/Meertens Institute) Title: ‘New’ dialect grammar across borders: Brabantish hyperdialectisms at the interface of sociolinguistic enregisterment and focus marking Date: Thursday 21 April Venue: Lipsius 121 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 … Continue reading →

Speaker: Matthijs Westera (LUCL) Title: What are questions? An English-centered, pragmatics & prosody-based perspective Date: Thursday 10 March Venue: Lipsius 121 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract What are questions? What are the meanings of interrogative sentences, such that speakers can … Continue reading →

The new season of ComSyn will run from March through June. 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 121, aside from 19 May in Lipsius … Continue reading →

Speaker: Michael Diercks (Pomona College) Title: Building Bridges: Developmental Minimalist Syntax Date: Thursday 9 December Venue: Online (get the Zoom-link through the Mailing List) Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract By many measures, the generative grammar project in its current iteration … Continue reading →

Speaker: Halima Husić (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Title: Individuation and Countability of Event Nominals Date: Thursday 11 November Venue: Lipsius 207 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract: Derived nominals which carry an eventive meaning have been thoroughly discussed in syntax and semantics with … Continue reading →

This Friday there will be an extra in-person ComSyn Talk by Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva): Speaker: Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva) Title: Focus preposing and its role in Bantu inversion, inverted copular sentences and contrastive ellipsis Date: Friday 5 … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University/UiL-OTS and Meertens Institute) Title: Negation in the work of De Ruyter and Hooft: Negation in 17th century Dutch intra-speaker variation Date: Thursday 28 October Venue: Lipsius 207 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract: The … Continue reading →

Speaker: Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge) Title: Switch-reference and big PRO Date: Thursday 14 October Venue: Online talk (join mailing list for link / watch at Lipsius 207) Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs Abstract: Switch-reference (SR) refers to the phenomenon … Continue reading →

Speaker: James Baker (Leiden University) Title: Parametric Comparison in the Clausal Domain Date: Thursday 30 September Venue: Lipsius 207 Time: 16.15 – 17.30 hrs (new start time!) Abstract: This talk is about the Parametric Comparison Method (PCM), which was initially … Continue reading →

As covid restrictions are slowly but steadily lifting, we’re delighted to announce that the new ComSyn season will feature a blend of online and in-person talks — the latter with drinks afterwards! Talks will be on the same day as … Continue reading →