45 search results for “comparative syntax” in the Public website
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The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of the structure of building blocks in natural language.
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The syntax of non-clausal manner adverbials
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Isaac WeiFaculty of Humanities
y.wei@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272643
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The Syntax of Being Different: How Human Language Expresses Otherness
This PhD project investigates what the universal and variable morphosyntactic properties of linguistic expressions of otherness are and how they can be modelled theoretically.
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'en Iran': external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Anikó LiptákFaculty of Humanities
a.liptak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273320
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Longming ShichuanFaculty of Humanities
l.shichuan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272568
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Irina MorozovaFaculty of Humanities
i.morozova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272986
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Adjectival Doubling Construction - 'I almost forgot the most importantest part'
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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No phases
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The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages
The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.
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Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies
This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.
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Jenneke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
g.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273658
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Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach
This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective.
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Martin KroonFaculty of Humanities
m.s.kroon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
l.l.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272104
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The internal and external syntax of genoeg ('enough')
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Interaction of syntax and information structure: Focus-driven T-to-C movement of modal auxiliaries
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Splitting the imperative: what prohibitives tell us about the morpho-syntax of imperatives and negation
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Lecture by George Walkden
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The DP-Internal Origin of Datives
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Towards a label-less grammar: Eradicating labels from the grammar
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Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study
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An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gaps
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
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Discourse sensitivity in argument realization
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Dissecting habituality: The Croatian know and its kin
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
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Four types of Internal Merge and the locus of Linearization
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Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach
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Size/flavor correlations in the grammar of attitudes and modals
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Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited
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On the source of polarity (in)sensitivity in the domain of degree modifiers
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Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of Properties
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The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion
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Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited
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Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialects
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Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implications
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Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questions
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Head-finality, Predicate Fronting and Spell-out Domains
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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Implications of Case (mis-)matches for theories of ATB-movement. Evidence from non-syncretic mismatches involving the genitive of negation in
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