Handouts
From 2019 to 2021, COPiL hosted handouts from talks and seminars on works in progress presented in Cambridge. Our current list of downloadable handouts is presented below.
If you have given a talk which you think fits the aims of COPiL and would like to share your handout, please contact the COPiL editorial team at copil@mmll.cam.ac.uk.
Lent 2021
Rethinking Swahili clause structure: the view from relatives
Tom Meadows (Queen Mary University of London)
SyntaxLab - 22 March 2021
Linearizing final complementizers in head-initial languages - The case of Medumba
Carolin Tyrchan (Utrecht University)
SyntaxLab - 16 March 2021
Ellipsis in a modular perspective
Craig Sailor (University of Edinburgh)
SyntaxLab - 01 March 2021
Sana Kidwai (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 16 February 2021
Coming to the party late: On the timing and limitations of word building
Paula Fenger (Universität Leipzig)
SyntaxLab - 09 February 2021
Nikos Angelopoulos (KU Leuven)
SyntaxLab - 26 January 2021
Michaelmas 2020
Extending Parametric Comparison
James Baker, Elena Isolani and Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 16 November 2020
Deriving Pro-Drop in a Non-Paradigmatic Approach
Olaf Koeneman (Radboud Univeristy) and Hedde Ziejlstra (Georg-August-Universtät Göttingen)
SyntaxLab - 5 November 2020
Disentangling the Vedic left-periphery
Krishnan Ram-Prasad (University of Cambridge)
Classics and Indo-European Seminar (Faculty of Classics) - 28 October 2020
Pronominal Demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian
Kari Kinn (University of Bergen) and Ida Larsson (Østfold University College)
SyntaxLab - 27 October 2020
Syntactically underspecified Voice: Evidence from the causative alternation in Choctaw
Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 20 October 2020
CP-licensing of DOM: evidence from northern Italian and beyond?
Onkar Singh (University of Cambridge)
Romance Linguistic Online Seminar - 20 October 2020
Easter 2020
Accusative case and the verbal domain in Hindi-Urdu
Sana Kidwai (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 2 June 2020
What we found is (not just) a focus construction
Jenneke van der Wal (Universiteit Leiden) and Patrick Kanampiu (Universiteit Leiden)
SyntaxLab - 26 May 2020
Narrative Structures in Colloquial English
Jamie Bailey (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 19 May 2020
Locality and (a)symmetry in case and agreement
András Bárány (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
SyntaxLab - 12 May 2020
Grammaticalization up the tree? The story of 'do' in the Italian Camuno dialect
Nicola Swinburne (University of Oxford)
SyntaxLab - 5 May 2020
Lent 2020
Issues in Basque-Romance Contact
Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS, IKER UMR5478)
Syntax mini-course - 3-4 March 2020
Argument Ellipsis and Anti-Agreement Theory Revisited
Fanghua Zheng (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 3 March 2020
Earliness Conditions on EPP-satisfaction: a view from Basque micro-comparative syntax
Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS, IKER UMR5478)
SyntaxLab - 25 February 2020
The Syntax of Sanskrit Causatives
Antonia Ruppel (University of Oxford)
Indo-European Seminar (Faculty of Classics) - 19 February 2020
Seth Aycock (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 18 February 2020
The use of "as" as a post- adjectival intensifier in English
Imogen Davies (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 11 February 2020
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 28 January 2020
Clause Structure and the Morphosyntax of Swahili Verbs
Tom Meadows (Queen Mary University of London)
SyntaxLab - 21 January 2020
Michaelmas 2019
Danielle Turton (Lancaster University)
Cambridge Linguistics Forum - 5 December 2019
Moving without a Goal: Deconstructing "Directional" PPs
Pietro Baggio (Queen Mary University of London)
SyntaxLab - 3 December 2019
An alternative theory of indexical shift
Sandhya Sundaresan (Universität Leipzig)
SyntaxLab - 26 November 2019
Deriving Selective Opacity via Path-based Locality
Thomas McFadden (ZAS, Berlin) and Sandhya Sundaresan (Universität Leipzig)
Syntax mini-course - 22 November 2019
Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation
Federico Federici (University College London)
Linguistics Society - 14 November 2019
Allocutive marking and the theory of agreement
Thomas McFadden (ZAS, Berlin)
SyntaxLab - 5 November 2019
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 22 October 2019
Granularity in generative syntax and why it matters
Chenchen Julio Song (University of Cambridge)
SyntaxLab - 15 October 2019
