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SIL talk by Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz)
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SIL talk by Lieke Hendriks (Georg-August University Göttingen)
Split Topicalization in Southern Dutch: accounting for Microvariation Split Topicalization (ST) as in (1) refers to the phenomenon in which one constituent ...
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SIL talk by Jairo Nunes (University of São Paulo)
Phase Defectivity and Inherent Case in Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese has undergone a series of apparently independent diachronic changes that ...
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SIL talk by Mike Putnam (Penn State University)
The syntax of umlaut – a cursory overview of the diachronic (& synchronic) development of plural in German(ic) Umlaut in Germanic – both ...
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Marjolein Talsma (University of Groningen)
A Split-Merge approach to argument structure In this talk, I discuss a novel way of associating arguments with their predicate, based on the concept of ...
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Roberta d’Alessandro (Utrecht University)
The many natures of DOM This talk will take a syntactic angle on differential object marking (DOM) different from the one usually considered in the Romance ...
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EXTRA: Jonathan Eric MacDonald (University of Illinois)
Syntactic ingredients for telicity: An aspectual projection, an aspectual operator, and scalar points In this talk, I argue for the presence of an ...