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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 Irina Morozova.

The Spring 2025 season of ComSyn talks runs from March till June.

Programme

06 Mar
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach Miriam Schiele
20 Mar
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Talk by Melle Groen Melle Groen
17 Apr
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Talk by Irina Morozova & Sjef Barbiers
15 May
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Talk by Guglielmo Cinque Guglielmo Cinque
12 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Talk by Joanna Wall Joanna Wall
26 Jun
Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Talk by Paula Fenger Paula Fenger
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')
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

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