Category Archives: Linguistics

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 →

Dear all, Following the latest advice of Leiden University and the Dutch government, the planned ComSyn talks for the spring season will not (all) go ahead in person. This applies at least for those scheduled up to 6th April, and … Continue reading →

Speaker: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) and Hedde Zeijlstra ( Georg-August-University) Title: A new look at full, no and partial pro-drop Date: Thursday 26 March POSTPONED Venue: Wijkplaats 2/005 Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract here

Speaker: Georg Höhn (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Title: Demonstratives with participant readings Date: Thursday 12 March Venue: Wijkplaats 2/005 Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract here

Speaker: Loes Koring (Leiden) Title: Disjointness in Child Language Date:  Thursday 27 February Venue: Wijkplaats 2/005 Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract:  A word like ‘somebody’ introduces a novel referent to the discourse. Adult speakers of English … Continue reading →

Speaker: Carlos Muñoz Pérez (PUCC)  Joint work in progress with Matias Verdecchia (UBA) Title: Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic copying Date: Thursday 13 February Venue: Wijkplaats 2/005 Time: 15.15 – 16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract: 20200213-carlos-abstract

Speaker: Kyle Johnson (UMass) Title: Rehabilitating Reinhart and Reuland Date: Monday 16 December Venue: Lipsius 2.35 (!) Time: 15.15 – 17.00 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract: One of the several innovations to Reinhart and Reuland’s binding theory is the idea that reflexives … Continue reading →

Speaker: Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Oxford University) Title: On verbal elasticity: the stative-eventive alternation in perception verbs in Germanic Date: Thursday 05 December Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.45 (!)-17.00 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract: 20191205-Victor-abstract

Speaker: Elisabeth Kerr (Leiden University) Title: Clefts in Tunen: A biclausal account Date: Thursday 21 November Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract here

Speaker: András Bárány (Leiden University) Title: Syntactic and typological aspects of a typological gap in ditransitive constructions Date: Thursday 7 November Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract Like (in)transitive constructions, ditransitive constructions can be characterised as showing different alignment … Continue reading →