Conference

Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)

• Sjef Barbiers
• András Bárany (Universität Bielefeld)
• Jutta Hartmann (Universität Bielefeld)

Date

Thursday 23 May 2024 - Friday 24 May 2024

Location

Sterrewacht C.104 & Lipsius 1.23

We are delighted to announce LeiBieCos, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Leiden and Bielefeld. This 2-day conference will take place at Leiden University on Thursday 23 May and Friday 24 May 2024.

Program

Day 1 (Thursday May 23)
Sterrewacht C1.04

09:30-10:10	Keynote: The inventory of functional categories in the verbal domain: Lessons from the antipassive Masha Polinsky (University of Maryland)
10:10-10:50	Embedded verb placement in North American and Argentine heritage Scandinavian Kari Kinn (University of Bergen) & Ida Larsson (Østfold University College)
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-11:50	Deriving disharmonic clausal word order: Case studies from West/Central Africa Elisabeth J. Kerr (Leiden University)
11:50-12:30	Comparative perspectives on extraction from EV2 Fabian Heck (Universität Leipzig)
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-15:30	Panel “Theoretical approaches to variation” 13:30 – 14:45 Talk by Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University) with questions/commentary from Susi Wurmbrand (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) and Masha Polinsky (University of Maryland) 14:45 – 15:30 General discussion
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-19:00	Panel “Methodology and resources” 16:00 – 18:20 Short presentations (including a 15-minute break) Short presentations (15+10) each including commentary on the usefulness and advantages of particular methods and resources as well as the challenges they pose. Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University) — Field methods Hilda Koopman (UCLA) — TerraLing Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) — Microvariation Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven / Meertens Instituut) — Quantitative method  18:20 – 19:00 General discussion
19:30-22:00	Dinner

 

Day 2 (Friday May 24)
Lipsius 1.23

09:30-10:10	The curious case of the two-headed phrase: The symmetrical syntax of co-compounds Lena Borise (CNRS) & Tamás Halm (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
10:10-10:50	DP/NP distinctions in Kwa languages Imke Driemel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Abigail Bimpeh (Leibniz-Zentrum ZAS), Reginald Duah (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-11:50	The syntax of gender features Ivona Kucerova (McMaster University)
11:50-12:30	An in-situ analysis of reduced embedded questions with multiple wh-phrases in Uyghur Xue Bai (Tohoku University)
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-14:10	Exploring the cross-linguistic variation in sluicing Ekaterina Georgieva (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
14:10-14:50	Discontinuous agreement in Eastern Sudanic: A reprojection-based account Helene Streffer (Universität Leipzig)
14:50-15:05	Brief presentation Cambridge Handbook
15:05-15:30	Break
15:30-16:10	Agree and Merge repair Labeling Mariia Privizentseva (Univerisität Leipzig)
16:10-16:50	From topics to subjects: An A'-A scale of Austronesian pivots Magdalena Lohninger (University of Vienna), Ioannis Katochoritis (MIT)
16:50-17:10	Break
17:10-17:50	Subject to Change Nofar Rimon (Harvard University), Tal Siloni (Tel Aviv University)
17:50-18:30	Pro Drop and the morphological structure of inflection Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Registration

In order to attend the conference, please register using this form. The registration fee is €50, which covers coffee/tea, snacks and lunch on both days. Further details about the dinner on the first evening of the workshop (May 23) will follow soon.

The deadline for the registration is Friday 10 May.

For more information please send an email to [e-mail] or contact the organisers: 

• Sjef Barbiers ([e-mail])
• András Bárány ([e-mail])
• Jutta Hartmann ([e-mail])

Linguistlist webpage LeiBieCos