Category Archives: Linguistics

Speaker: Thomas McFadden (ZAS, Berlin) & Sandhya Sundaresan (U. of Göttingen) Title: Unifying species of C-agreement Date: Thursday 4 March Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract In this talk, we will undertake one … Continue reading →

Speaker: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) & Hedde Zijlstra (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Title: Deriving pro drop in a non-paradigmatic way Date: Thursday 10 December Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract: Apart from incidental contexts in which Germanic … Continue reading →

Speaker: Richard Stockwell (Oxford University) Title: Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition Date: Thursday 26 November Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract This talk, based on my recent UCLA dissertation, argues … Continue reading →

Speaker: Alexandra Vydrina (CNRS) Title: From addressee-oriented deixis to a reflexive: the case of the pronoun ì in Kakabe (Mande) Date: Thursday 12 November Venue: Skype (contact us to get access to the meeting) Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs Abstract It is not uncommon … Continue reading →

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