Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

ComSyn

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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ComSyn: Irina Morozova and Sjef Barbiers

Speakers: Irina Morozova & Sjef Barbiers (LUCL) Title: Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of Properties When: Thu 17 April, 16:15 – 17:30 Where: Lipsius 2.23 Zoom: link / Meeting ID: 633 9946 0316 / Passcode: AgNKj$2d Abstract: There are at least three ways in Dutch to say that a car is green: (1)      a.         een       groen-e            auto           a          green-com       car…

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Com-Syn talk: Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (UU)

Speaker: Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University) Title: An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies Time: 19 September, 16:15-17:30 Place: Lipsius 0.01, Leiden University and Zoom Abstract: Explanations for linguistic phenomena are often sought either in the syntax or in non-syntactic components of human cognition, e.g. through demands of discourse processing. The unacceptability…

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