Programme

Programme fall 2024

 

Tue 10/12/24, 14.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]: talk

Melle Groen (University of Tübingen), Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialects.

 

Thu 21/11/24, 11.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]: talk

Alice Corr (Birmingham) & Kim Groothuis (UGent), Galego-Portuguese QUIA and clausal complementation in Medieval Romance: a diachronic and comparative perspective. 

 

Thu 07/11/24, 11.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]: talk

Elisabeth Kerr (UGent), The successive roll-up account of FOFC under-generates disharmonic word orders.

 

Fri 25/10/24, 14.00 [Blandijn, 0.2]: reading group

Chapter 4: “Causatives and transitives”of Elly Van Gelderen, The Diachrony of Verb Meaning. Aspect and Argument Structure, 76–114. New York/Oxford: Routledge.

 

Fri 03/10/24, 11.30 [Blandijn, 5.50]: talk

Bernat Bardagil (UGent), Fine-grained approaches to alignment typology.

 

Mon 16/09/24, 14.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]: talk

Anni Wang (UGent), Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Grammaticalization of ba 把 in Written Vernacular Chinese.

Programme spring 2024

 

Thu 20/06/24, 14.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]: talk

Yiming Liang (UGent), Why is the synthetic future preferred in negative contexts in French? An agreement-based analysis.

 

Thu 23/05/24, 16.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]: talk (in collaboration with GILIAB – Grupo de Investigadores de Lenguas Indígenas de las Américas en Bélgica)

An Van linden (Université de Liège), Grammar from space: The functional extension of spatial verb morphology into applicative uses in Harakmbut.

 

Wed 08/05/24, 11.30 [Blandijn, Faculteitsraadzaal]: talk (in collaboration with All Þings Germanic)

Bernat Bardagil (UGent), Internal and external pressures in the emergence of Panará polysynthesis.

 

Thu 02/05/24, 14.00 [Blandijn, 2.23 panopticon]

Dag van de wetenschap: data discussion session.

 

Thu 18/04/24, 14.00 [Blandijn, 3.31 Avalon]: talk

Morris Callens (UGent), A Phasal Approach to the Adverbial Articular Infinitive in Post-Classical Greek.

 

Thu 14/03/24, 14.00 [Blandijn 2.23 Panopticon]: talk

Anne Breitbarth (UGent), You are what you is. Verbal agreement variation and change in Early Modern Dutch.

 

Thu 29/02/24, 14.00 [Blandijn 2.23 Panopticon]: reading group

Contemori, Carla & Di Domenico, Elisa. 2023. The Production of Subject Anaphoric Expressions in Italian and Mexican Spanish: A Forced-Choice Experimental Study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 52(6). 2257–2285. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-023-09993-w.

 

Thu 14/02/24, 14.00 [Blandijn 2.23 Panopticon]: reading group

Eckhoff, Hanne Martine. 2022. A long-haul change. Journal of Historical Syntax 1-40 Pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/HS/2022.V6I4-11.110.

 

 

Programme fall 2023

 

Sun 26/11/23 [De Krook]

Dag van de wetenschap.

 

Wed 25/10/23: research group

Dag van de wetenschap preparation meeting.

 

Thu 12/10/23, 11.00 [Blandijn 3.31 Avalon]: talk

Hannah Booth & Kim Groothuis (UGent), Discourse-related expletives: Challenges and opportunities.

 

 

Programme spring 2023

 

Thu 08/06/23, 14.00 [Blandijn 1.11]: talk (followed by a Pimm’s reception)

Hannah Booth (UGent), Economy, configurationality and expletives: an LFG approach

 

Tue 23/05/23, 11.00 [Blandijn 3.30 Camelot]: talk

Sampson Korsah (University of Cape Coast & UGent), An Agree approach to Akan pronominal prefixation.

 

Tue 04/05/23, 11.00 [Blandijn 2.23 Panopticon]: reading group discussion

Cardinaletti, Anna & Michal Starke. 1999. The typology of structural deficiency: A case study of the three classes of pronouns. In Henk Van Riemsdijk (ed.), Clitics in the Languages ofEurope, 145–233. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

 

 

Programme fall 2022

 

Tue 06/12/22, 11.00 [online]: talk

Simone De Cia (Manchester), Topicalization and Past Participle-Object Agreement: A Common Diachronic Stage Across Romance? Evidence from Friulian and Old Italian.

 

Tue 22/11/22, 11.00 [Blandijn 1.15 Midgard]: talk

Hannah Booth (UGent), Annotation of information structure: challenges and opportunities.

 

Tue 25/10/22, 11.00  [Blandijn 3.31 Avalon]: reading group discussion

Tsiakmakis, E. & Espinal, M. T. 2022. Expletiveness in grammar and beyond. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1).

 

Tue 11/10/22, 11.00 [Blandijn 2.23 Panopticon]: reading group discussion

Statistical methods for analysing acceptability judgments with Likert-scales, based on: Giuseppe Magistro. 2022. Mica preposing as focus fronting. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1).

 

 

Programme spring 2022

 

Wed 01/06/22, 11.00 [Blandijn 3.30 Camelot]: talk

Liliane Haegeman (UGent): The external syntax of adverbial clauses – a reassessment.

 

Thu 19/05/22, 12.00 [Blandijn 3.31 Avalon]: research group

Giuseppe Magistro (UGent), The prosody-syntax mapping.

 

Thu 05/05/22, 12.00 [Blandijn Faculteitszaal]: G4 Grammars

Karen De Clercq (CNRS), Nanosyntax and negation typology.

 

Thu 24/03/22, 13.00 [Blandijn Faculteitszaal*]: talk

Hannah Booth (UGent) & Alex Rehn (Universität Konstanz), OCP effects in Germanic possession.

 

Thu 17/03/22, 12.00 [Blandijn 3.30 Camelot*]: research group

Research discussion meeting.

 

Thu 03/03/22, 13.00 [Blandijn 3.30 Camelot*]: G4 grammars

Hannah Booth (UGent), Introduction to LFG.

 

Thu 17/02/22, 13.00 [online]: reading group discussion

Friedmann, Naama, Adriana Belletti & Luigi Rizzi. 2021. Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. Open Library of Humanities 6(1).

 

*Meetings will be held in a hybrid format whenever required.

 

 

Programme fall 2021

 

Fri 17/12/21, 15.00 [online]: research group

Data discussion session.

 

Wed 17/11/21, 11:30 [Blandijn 3.31]: reading group

Akkuş, Faruk & Hill, Virginia. 2021. Overt speakers in syntaxGlossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1).

 

Thu 04/11/21, 15.00 [Blandijn Faculteitszaal]: research group

Data discussion session.

 

Wed 27/10/21, 11.30 [Blandijn 3.31]: reading group discussion

Haegeman, Liliane & Hill, Virginia. 2013. The Syntacticization of Discourse. In Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell (eds.) Syntax and its Limits.

 

Wed 13/10/21, 11.30 [Blandijn 3.31]: reading group discussion

Kaur, Gurmeet & Yamada, Akitaka. To appear. Honorific (Mis)matches in Allocutive Languages with Special Focus on Japanese. Proceedings of WCCFL 39.

 

Wed 06/10/21, 11.30 [Blandijn 3.31]: research group discussion

Bernat Bardagil (UGent), Interlocutor sameness indexicality in Mỹky.

 

Thu 30/09/21, 14.30 [Blandijn 3.30]: practice talk

Giuseppe Magistro (UGent), Minimizing minimizers’ structure: Jespersen’s cycle and focus.

 

 

Programme spring 2021

 

Thu 11/06/21, 13:30 [online]: talk

Bernat Bardagil (UGent), Syntactic ergativity in Jê languages (talk given at Amazônicas VIII).

 

Thu 27/05/21, 13:30 [online]: practice talk

Bernat Bardagil & Kim Groothuis (UGent), Finiteness across languages: a case study of the Jê family.

 

Thu 06/05/21, 13:30 [online]: practice talk

Anne Breitbarth (UGent), Spoken data as a source for diachronic syntax (keynote at DiGS).

 

Thu 22/04/21, 13:30 [online]: reading group discussion

Larrivée, Pierre. 2019. To be or not to be informational: Preverbal complements in Medieval French V2 configurations. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1).

 

Thu 01/04/21, 13:30 [online]: reading group discussion

Schaefer, Silvia. 2020. The morpho-syntactic encoding of discourse-linked topics: an agreement alternation in inversion in North-Eastern Italian varieties. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1).

 

Thu 18/03/21, 13:30 [online]: invited talk

Pavel Rudnev (HSE University, Moscow), Avar nonfinites between restructuring and periphrasis.

 

Thu 11/03/21, 13:30 [online]: practice talk

Linda Badan and Elisa De Cristofaro (UGent), Sentence-internal discourse markers in Italian L1 and L2.

 

Thu 25/02/21, 13:30 [online]: reading group discussion

Vihman, Virve-Anneli & George Walkden. 2021. Verb-second in spoken and written Estonian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1).

 

Thu 11/02/21, 13:30 [online]: reading group discussion

Article: Muñoz Pérez, Carlos & Verdecchia, Matías (2020) Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement [lingbuzz]