283 search results for “comparative syntax” in the Staff website
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Jan SleutelsFaculty of Humanities
j.j.m.sleutels@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272007
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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272103
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Mariska KretFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.e.kret@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276359
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Workshop in honour of Elisabeth J. Kerr and Zhen Li
The two PhD candidates in the BaSIS project have finished their PhD theses! The public defence ceremonies are scheduled as follows: Wednesday 4th September 2024, 16h00: Elisabeth J. Kerr – Tunen syntax and information structure (see here) Thursday 5th September 2024, 11h30: Zhen Li – Word order,…
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
a.schmidt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272502
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
a.j.w.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Leila DemarestFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
l.demarest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Erik BähreFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
ebaehre@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273997
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Frank ChouraquiFaculty of Humanities
f.chouraqui@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272006
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Cristina GrasseniFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
c.grasseni@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273451
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Children's acquisition of Mandarin Chinese verb-copying sentences
Mandarin verb-copying sentences are sentences with two non-adjacent phonetic realisations of the same verb, with a Subject-Verbi-Object-Verbi-Postverbal Phrase structure. The post-verbal phrase can be of different kinds, including duration/frequency expressions (e.g., Tā qí-mǎ qí le sān-ge xiǎoshí.…
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Labeling reduced clauses in Chinese
There is a general debate concerning “reduced” clauses. Regarding the question-answer pair in (1), the sentential approach (Morgan 1973; Merchant 2004) would argue that the answer involves a full clause, which has undergone ellipsis/deletion. On the contrary, the non-sentential approach (base-generation)…
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
In this talk, I discuss two kinds of post-classifier NP-ellipsis (NPE) in Chinese, based on Cantonese and Longdu data (a Min Chinese variety spoken in Guangdong Zhongshan area). I propose that there are at least two kinds of post-classifier NPE; the first type involves the full-fledged syntactic structure…
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Amy EaglestoneFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
a.m.eaglestone@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Zane Kripe
Faculty of Science
z.kripe@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Peter PelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
pels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
t.w.brocades@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272770
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Mariana FrançozoFaculty of Archaeology
m.de.campos.francozo@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272437
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
m.pluskota@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278568
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Manon van der HeijdenFaculty of Humanities
m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272670
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Priority modality, scalarity and modal concord in Chinese
We are going to present our ongoing work on Chinese conditionals like the following (always doing justice to the fact that we observe considerable inter-speaker variation concerning acceptability of this construction): (i) Xiwang mei-you shi cai hao.…
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop Description In the past two decades computational approaches to dialect variation, known as dialectometry, have allowed researchers to work efficiently with large amounts of data and in a data-driven manner define dialect groups, identify specific…
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272208
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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Ever since the beginning of Indo-European Studies, the comparative evidence of Ancient Indic and Iranian texts played a decisive role in the reconstruction of Proto-European grammar, sacred texts, myths and rituals. On the one hand, there are strong linguistic correspondences between the Old Indic of…
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
s.s.regilme@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271742