Category Archives: Linguistics

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 →

Speaker: Zhaole Yang & Hang Cheng (Leiden University) Title: On Mandarin propositional assertion sentences with shì and de Date: Thursday 17 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In Mandarin, a number of different constructions surface with … Continue reading →

Speaker: Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Title: Requiem for a Theme Date: Thursday 3 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15:15-16:30   Abstract: Conjugation classes in Romance and beyond are typically seen as not contributing anything deterministic to the syntax … Continue reading →

Speaker: Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: The grammar of knowing: A lesson from cross-linguistic patterns for markedness Date: Thursday 20 May Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In this talk, I present evidence … Continue reading →

Speaker: Zoë Belk, Ad Neeleman and Joy Philip (UCL) Title: What divides, and what unites, right-node raising Date: Thursday 18 March Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: We argue, following Barros and Vicente … Continue reading →