Category Archives: Linguistics

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 →

Speaker: Allen Asiimwe (Makerere/Leiden) & Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden) Title: Rukiga augments are like Greek Date: Thursday 24 October Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract Rukiga, a Bantu language spoken in Uganda, has augments not just … Continue reading →

Speaker: Astrid van Alem (Leiden) Title: Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: evidence from intervention effects Date: Thursday 26 September Venue: Lipsius 2.28 Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks afterwards at Café de Keyser) Abstract It is well known that many non-standard West-Germanic languages have Complementizer Agreement: not only … Continue reading →

Speaker: Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Title: Theories of argument structure and syntactic priming in comprehension Date: Thursday 23 May Venue: Lipsius 2.35(!) Time: 15.15-16.30 hrs (drinks follow at Cafe de Keyzer) Abstract: Different theories of argument structure attribute different syntactic configurations to intransitives like … Continue reading →