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SynCop project meeting 4 (University of Nantes) Date: 2-3 October, 2025

OASIS 5 conference

• Location: University of Edinburgh
• Date: 3-5 December 2025
• Details: The SynCop project is organising a satellite workshop on the first day of the OASIS 5 conference (3rd December) on the topic of “Nominals in Nonreferential Use.”
• Invited speaker: Roberto Zamparelli (Trento)
• Call for papers: https://oasis-5.webflow.io/cfp
• Deadline for abstracts: 15th August 2025

Project conference on the Syntax of Nominal Copular Clauses (SyNCC)

• Location: University of Bielefeld
• Date: 23-24 September 2026
• Conference Website: https://t1p.de/syncc2026

SynCop project meeting 3 (University of Trento)

Date: 5-6 June 2025

Talks:

• Copular clauses fieldwork questionnaire
• Typology study on copular sentences (Mary Amaechi, Jutta Hartmann and Annette Kröker)
• Connectivity effect (Caroline Heycock)
• On binominal copular clauses in Yoruba (Mary Amaechi)
• Cantonese DPs (Esther Lam)
• Appositives and the limits of predication (Caroline Heycock)
• Notes on Hebrew copular sentences (Ur Shlonsky)
• Internal structure of predicate nominals (Caroline Heycock and Isabelle Roy)

SynCop project meeting 2 (The University of Edinburgh)

Date: 28–29 November 2024

Talks:

• A case study of Cantonese ‘free relatives” in copular clauses (Esther Lam)
• Adjective ordering restrictions restructured (Roberto Zamparelli)
• Discussion (WP 3: Internal structure of predicate nominal)
• Copula support in Hungarian (Balász Surányi, Jutta M. Hartmann and Veronika Hegedus)
• Presentation of ongoing work on typology (WP1) and its relation to the questionnaire (Jutta Hartmann)
• Appositives and the limits of predication (Caroline Heycock)
• Notes on Hebrew copular sentences (Ur Shlonsky)
• Discussion (WP 2b: Information Structure)

SynCop project meeting 1 (Bielefeld University)

Date: 6-7 June 2024

Talks:

• Overview of the SynCop work packages (Jutta Hartmann and Caroline Heycock)
• On equative copular clauses in Hungarian (Jutta M. Hartmann and Veronika Hegedus)
• Discussion WP2: Agreement & focus (Jutta M. Hartmann)
• The copula as a syntactic expletive: Some remarks and issues (Isabelle Roy)
• Covert partitives: A half story (Roberto Zamparelli)
• Discussion WP3a&b: Internal structure (Caroline Heycock)
• Matrix and embedded sluicing-like constructions in Igbo (Mary Amaechi)
• Discussion WP1: Typology / general comparative analysis
• Discussion of questionnaire for studying copular clauses in understudied languages