About ComSyn
ComSyn started out as discussion group about Comparative Syntax at Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL). It has since grown into a series of lectures about (Comparative) Syntax. Speakers from all over the world are welcome to present their work in an informal setting. ComSyn is the perfect place to present work in progress, do a dry run for a conference, or simply share a syntactic puzzle with fellow linguists. If you have any suggestions, please contact Irina Morozova.
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Upcoming talks
Spring/Summer 2025
6 Mar Miriam Schiele (Tübingen) 20 Mar Melle Groen
(Tübingen)17 Apr Irina Morozova &
Sjef Barbiers (LUCL)15 May Guglielmo Cinque (Venice) 12 June Joanna Wall (UCR) 26 June Paula Fenger (Leipzig) ComSyn talks are on Thursdays from 16:15-17:30 and are livestreamed on Zoom.
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Thursday 8 October – András Bárány & Jenneke van der Wal
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
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Thursday 1 October – Maria Kouneli
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
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Thursday 18 June – Sjef Barbiers and Astrid van Alem
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
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Thursday 4 June – Nikos Angelopoulos
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
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Thursday 14 May – Marcel den Dikken
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
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Thursday 23 April – Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
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
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Thursday 30 April — Zorica Puskar
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
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Thursday 9 April – Boban Arsenijević
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
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ComSyn spring season: Talks postponed/online
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
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POSTPONED – Olaf Koeneman & Hedde Zeijlstra
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
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