Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

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ComSyn: Hedde Zeijlstra

Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) Title: No phases Place: Lipsius 1.29 and Zoom Date/time: 9 April 16:15-17:30 Abstract

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ComSyn: Peter Katballe-Kristensen

Speaker:Peter Katballe-Kristensen (Aarhus University) Title: Adjectival Doubling Construction – ‘I almost forgot the most importantest part’ Place: Lipsius 1.30 and Zoom Date/time: 19 March 16:15-17:30  

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ComSyn: Lex Tavenier

Speaker: Lex Tavenier Title: The syntax of non-clausal manner adverbials Place: Lipsius 2.37 and Zoom Date/time: 26 February 16:15-17:30  

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ComSyn: Benjamin Storme

Speaker: Benjamin Storme (LUCL) Title: “‘Au Liban’, but ‘en Iran’: external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface” Place: Lipsius 2.37 and Zoom Date/time: 12 February 16:15-17:30 Abstract In this presentation, I revisit two well-known external sandhi alternations in French prepositions—suppletive allomorphy (du Liban/d’Iran, au Liban/en Iran) and fusion-concatenation alternations (du Liban/de l’Iran, au Liban/à l’Iran)—and…

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ComSyn: Isabelle Charnavel

Speaker: Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) Title: Sloppy indexicals are not fake When: Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:15 – 17:30 Zoom: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63083409585?pwd=Oz5a0k884QOhRMxcgeEfDq8JWUvXPP.1 / Meeting ID: 630 8340 9585 / Passcode: S@&1f0vQ Indexical binding in constructions illustrated in (1)-(2) is one of the crucial empirical arguments questioning the Kaplanian hypothesis that indexicals rigidly depend on context. (1) Only I did my…

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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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