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
Thu 14/02/24, 14.00 [Blandijn 2.23 Panopticon]: reading group
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
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
*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 syntax. Glossa: 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]