Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Yining Nie (NYU) Title: Two ways of forming causatives and their implications for recursion Date: Thursday 29 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Syntactic approaches to the causative alternation disagree as to … Continue reading →

Speaker: Melissa Farasyn (Ghent) Title: Nature and origin of v>2 in the French Flemish dialects: archaisms and novelties in a split left periphery Date: Thursday 15 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: In … Continue reading →

Speaker: András Bárány (Bielefeld/LUCL) and Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL) Title: We don’t Agree (only) upwards Date: Thursday 8 October Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Bjorkman and Zeijlstra (2019) … Continue reading →

The new ComSyn season is starting! Due to the coronavirus situation, all talks this season will be held online via Skype. Please sign up for the mailing list / contact the ComSyn organizers for links to the talk (note that … Continue reading →

Speaker: Sjef Barbiers and Astrid van Alem (Leiden) Title: Poor weak ‘t (it) and the syntax of pronominal clefts Date: Thursday 18 June Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs This paper … Continue reading →

Speaker: Nikos Angelopoulos (CRISSP, KU Leuven) Title: Complementizers as probes Date: Thursday 4 June Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers to get access to the talk) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract

Speaker: Marcel den Dikken (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Title: Unmatched and unparalleled: Voice mismatches in ellipsis — Analysis and theoretical implications Date: Thursday 14 May Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers … Continue reading →

Speaker: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS & U. Paris-8) Title: Two superiority comparatives in Hiatian Creole Date:  Thursday 23 April Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list or contact one of the organizers to get access to the talk) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs  Abstract

Speaker: Zorica Puskar (ZAS) Title: Multiple Challenges of Multiple Agreement Date: Thursday 30 April Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list for details) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs  Abstract In some languages where finite verbs morphologically index both subject (S) and object (O) … Continue reading →

Speaker: Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz) Title: Deriving lexical categories: valued and unvalued classifiers and classifier-relativization Date: Thursday 9 April Venue: Online (sign up for our mailing list for details) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs  Abstract I tackle the status of the controversial lexical categories: … Continue reading →