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Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

ComSyn is a series of lectures about (comparative) syntax.

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 one of the organizers — Maarten Bogaards and Irina Morozova.

The Fall 2024 season of ComSyn talks runs from September till November.

Programme

05 Dec
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Size/flavor correlations in the grammar of attitudes and modals Thomas Grano
21 Nov
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The DP-Internal Origin of Datives Richard S. Kayne
17 Oct
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Head-finality, Predicate Fronting and Spell-out Domains Fábio Bonfim Duarte
31 Oct
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited Jenneke van der Wal
12 Sep
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implications Jesús Olguín Martinez
19 Sep
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gaps Gert-Jan Schoenmakers
08 Jul
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Interaction of syntax and information structure: Focus-driven T-to-C movement of modal auxiliaries Yu-Yin Hsu
21 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study Bridget Copley
13 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questions
16 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series ‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages Jens Fleischhauer
02 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Adult language acquisition and syntactic change George Walkden
29 Feb
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The internal and external syntax of genoeg ('enough') Malte Koot
14 Mar
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Discourse sensitivity in argument realization Kyle Jerro
18 Apr
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion Karen De Clercq
02 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Lecture by George Walkden George Walkden
22 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited Anikó Lipták, Crit Cremers
16 Mar
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Tunen syntax within a structural typology of Aux-O-V word orders
06 Apr
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition Tamirand Nnena De Lisser
26 Apr
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Comparing apples and oranges: What grinding and portioning can tell us about gender and atomicity Charlotte Sant
04 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Dissecting habituality: The Croatian know and its kin Iva Kovač
11 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty Molly Rolf
25 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish Claudia Pañeda
01 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series CANCELLED - Lecture by Jesús Olguin Martinez Jesús Olguin Martinez
08 Dec
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Towards a Unified Theory for Noun Class Agreement in Grassfields Bantu Leonel Tadjo Fongang
01 Dec
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke (Bantu B70)
17 Nov
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Dutch primary compounding: Towards a new inventory Marijke de Belder
03 Nov
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The impact of the French wh-in-situ option in the acquisition of L2 English questions: An analysis of transfer Romane Pedro
20 Oct
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Pronoun interpretation and processing in Dutch and German Esther Ruigendijk
02 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Modeling progress: event types, causal models, and the imperfective paradox Prerna Nadathur
12 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Syntax-Information-Structure Interaction: Data and analysis Jutta Hartmann (University of Bielefeld)
19 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series The morphosyntax of wh-paradigms and wh-copying
21 Apr
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series ‘New’ dialect grammar across borders: Brabantish hyperdialectisms at the interface of sociolinguistic enregisterment and focus marking Kristel Doreleijers, Marjo van Koppen
28 Apr
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Constructing the Siona nominal from the bottom up: a Minimalist perspective Justin Case
10 Mar
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series What are questions? An English-centered, pragmatics & prosody-based perspective Matthijs Westera