Dear all,
This Friday there will be an extra in-person ComSyn Talk by Ur Shlonsky
(University of Geneva).
The talk will be on Friday 5 November, 11:15-12:45. As per usual, the location
will be Leiden University; the room will be announced on Thursday.
Title and abstract are included below. We hope to see you at the extra talk!
All the best,
Lis & Maarten (ComSyn organizers)
Speaker: Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva)
Title: Focus preposing and its role in Bantu inversion, inverted copular
sentences and contrastive ellipsis
Abstract: The existence of a dedicated VP-peripheral FocusP in UG remains moot
outside cartographic circles. I bring syntactic evidence to bear in its favor
and illustrate the role of movement to a low focus position in the computations
that underlie Bantu inversion, inverted copular sentences and contrastive
ellipsis.
