Conference

Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)

• Sjef Barbiers
• András Bárany (Universität Bielefeld)
• Jutta Hartmann (Universität Bielefeld)

Date

Thursday 23 May 2024 - Friday 24 May 2024

Location

Sterrewacht C1.04 & Lipsius 1.23

LeiBieCos, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Leiden and Bielefeld took place at Leiden University on Thursday 23 May and Friday 24 May 2024. Below you will find the program including the abstracts and slides/handouts.

During the conference The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax was presented by the three editors: Sjef Barbiers, Maria Polinsky, Norbert Corver (from left to right).

Program

Day 1 (Thursday May 23)
Sterrewacht C1.04

09:25-09:30	Opening Sjef Barbiers
09:30-10:10	Keynote: The inventory of functional categories in the verbal domain: Lessons from the antipassive Masha Polinsky (University of Maryland)
10:10-10:50	Embedded verb placement in North American and Argentine heritage Scandinavian Kari Kinn (University of Bergen) & Ida Larsson (Østfold University College)
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-11:50	Deriving disharmonic clausal word order: Case studies from West/Central Africa Elisabeth J. Kerr (Leiden University)
11:50-12:30	Comparative perspectives on extraction from EV2 Fabian Heck (Universität Leipzig)
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-15:30	Panel “Theoretical approaches to variation” 13:30 – 14:45 Talk by Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University) with questions/commentary from Susi Wurmbrand (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) and Masha Polinsky (University of Maryland) 14:45 – 15:30 General discussion
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-19:00	Panel “Methodology and resources” 16:00 – 18:20 Short presentations (including a 15-minute break) Short presentations (15+10) each including commentary on the usefulness and advantages of particular methods and resources as well as the challenges they pose. Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University) — Field methods Hilda Koopman (UCLA) — TerraLing Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) — Microvariation Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven / Meertens Instituut) — Quantitative methods  18:20 – 19:00 General discussion
19:30-22:00	Dinner

 

Day 2 (Friday May 24)
Lipsius 1.23

09:30-10:10	The curious case of the two-headed phrase: The symmetrical syntax of co-compounds: handout Lena Borise (CNRS) & Tamás Halm (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
10:10-10:50	DP/NP distinctions in Kwa languages Imke Driemel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Abigail Bimpeh (Leibniz-Zentrum ZAS), Reginald Duah (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-11:50	The syntax of gender features: handout Ivona Kucerova (McMaster University)
11:50-12:30	An in-situ analysis of reduced embedded questions with multiple wh-phrases in Uyghur: slides Xue Bai (Tohoku University)
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-14:10	Exploring the cross-linguistic variation in sluicing: handout Ekaterina Georgieva (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
14:10-14:50	Discontinuous agreement in Eastern Sudanic: A reprojection-based account Helene Streffer (Universität Leipzig)
14:50-15:05	Brief presentation Cambridge Handbook
15:05-15:30	Break
15:30-16:10	Agree and Merge repair Labeling: slides Mariia Privizentseva (Univerisität Leipzig)
16:10-16:50	From topics to subjects: An A'-A scale of Austronesian pivots: handout Magdalena Lohninger (University of Vienna), Ioannis Katochoritis (MIT)
16:50-17:10	Break
17:10-17:50	Subject to Change: slides Nofar Rimon (Harvard University), Tal Siloni (Tel Aviv University)
17:50-18:30	Pro Drop and the morphological structure of inflection: slides Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

For more information please send an email to [e-mail] or contact the organisers: 

• Sjef Barbiers ([e-mail])
• András Bárány ([e-mail])
• Jutta Hartmann ([e-mail])

Linguistlist webpage LeiBieCos

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