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CANCELED: CRISSP Concord and Agreement: Pavel Caha

This talk has been CANCELED CRISSP is happy to announce the CRISSP Seminar Series Concord & Agreement (C&A). The CRISSP C&A Seminar Series is a series of one-hour online talks around a central topic. The first talk in the series is by Pavel Caha on 25 September 2025 at 15.00–16.30 CET on Zoom (title & abstract will…

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ComSyn: Lex Tavenier

Speaker: Lex Tavenier (Utrecht University) Title: The syntax of non-clausal manner adverbials Date/Time: 11 December, 16:15

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ComSyn: Martin Salzmann

Speaker: Martin Salzmann (University of Potsdam) Title: Case (mis-)matches in ATB-movement and implications for theories of sharing constructions Date/time: 4 December, 16:15

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ComSyn: Nino Grillo

Speaker: Nino Grillo (University of York) Title: Nested garden-path sentences and the syntax-prosody interface Date/time: 27 November, 13:00  

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ComSyn: Johannes Mursell

Speaker: Johannes Mursell (Goether University, Frankfurt) Title:Syntactic effects of negation — A’-interactions and more Date/time: 16 October, 16:15-17:30 Place: Lipsius 2.07 and Zoom  

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SIL meets ELITU – Nermina Čordalija

Speaker: Nermina Čordalija  (University of Sarajevo) Title: Grammatical aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English: Insights from experimental studies Date/Time: 27 October, 11am Place: Janskerkhof 13, room 0.06 / MS Teams Abstract This talk addresses important theoretical issues concerning grammatical aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English. Three experimental studies on L1 and L2 processing of grammatical aspect are then presented. L1…

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SIL talk: Jenneke van der Wal

Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal Title: Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity Date/Time: 25 September, 4pm Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract It is a well-observed crosslinguistic fact that markers of evidentiality overlap with other concepts of speaker and hearer knowledge, such as mirativity or epistemic modality. To illustrate, the particle kamaŋ (1) indicates that the speaker has witnessed…

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