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Upcoming events

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  • Tue
    08
    Nov
    2022

    William Balla-Johnson: A ‘More Perfect’ Shift: Semantic change in the history of the Western European Romance pluperfect.

    2:00 pmBlandijn Faculteitszaal

    William Balla-Johnson: “A ‘More Perfect’ Shift: Semantic change in the history of the Western European Romance pluperfect.”

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Past events

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  • Thu
    05
    Dec
    2019

    Michal Starke: Cutting French verbs and gluing them back together

    1:00 pmCamelot Room (Blandijnberg 2, 3rd floor)

    Prof. Dr Michal Starke (Masaryk University): "Cutting French verbs and gluing them back together".

    Abstract: Descriptively, French has many "irregular" verbs, as well as a mildly complex combination of suffixes on verbs. I aim to show that both irregular verbs and the combination of verbal suffixes follow a regular underlying system, and that this system can be elegantly derived by using phrasal spellout, the elsewhere principle and the functional sequence provided by syntax.

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