Talks

Author

András Bárány

Published

August 12, 2026

For a full list of talks, see my CV. E-mail me for handouts or slides, I should have them.

Invited talks

True differential object agreement, University of Graz, 10 June 2026
Hungarian has object agreement not clitic doubling, University of Graz, 3 June 2026
Analogy in morphosyntax, Meaning and Grammar Research Group, University of Edinburgh, 17 March 2026
Analogy in morphosyntax, Newcastle University, 4 March 2026

Exploring morphosyntactic variation across languages, CRISSP lecture series, KU Leuven (Brussels Campus), 4–6 November 2025
Typological and formal perspectives on ditransitives and the PCC, Bielefeld–Leiden Com parative Syntax Conference 2025, Bielefeld University, 22 May 2025
Case and agreement across languages: Some phenomena, explanations, and open questions, Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh, 16 January 2025

Differential subject marking in Eastern Khanty: Information structure, not ergativity, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 16 December 2024 (joint work with Nikolett F. Gulyás)
Analysing PCC patterns with recipient-first agreement, University of Vienna, 13 December 2024
Information structure, not ergativity: Eastern Khanty differential subject marking, Workshop on Ergativity and Information Structure, HU Berlin, 21 November 2024
Artificial language learning of case and agreement patterns, Workshop ‘The future of artificial language learning in linguistics’, University of Edinburgh, 4 September 2024
Agreement in ditransitive constructions and at the syntax–information structure interface, University of Potsdam, 23 April 2024
Agreement and the syntax–information structure interface, Syntax & Semantics Circle, University of California, Berkeley, 21 March 2024
Incidental learning of attested and unattested ditransitive alignment types, Chuo Research Seminar: Research based on experiments with artificial languages, University of Cambridge, 15 March 2024 (with Michelle Sheehan and John Williams)

Kasus und Kongruenz in (Di)transitivkonstruktionen: Eine typologische Lücke, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 12 December 2023
Agreement in ditransitives and the syntax–information structure interface, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 28 September 2023 (joint work with Jutta-Maria Hartmann)
Features or filters? On the relationship between syntax and information structure, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 5 July 2023 (joint work with Jutta-Maria Hartmann)

Interaction, satisfaction, and (a)symmetric object agreement, Leipzig University, 14 December 2022
Typological asymmetries and agreement alternations in ditransitive constructions, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, 30 August 2022
Case and agreement in ditransitives in Uralic and beyond, Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, Keynote speaker in Symposion B.9 Current issues in the syntactic typology of Uralic languages, University of Vienna, 22 August 2022
We don’t agree (only) upwards, Seminar talk at the University of Konstanz, 25 January 2022 (with Jenneke van der Wal)

Agreement alternations in ditransitive constructions, Invited talk at ConSOLE 29, Leiden University, 26–28 January 2021 (online)

We don’t agree (only) upwards, Comparative Syntax Meetings (ComSyn), Leiden University, 8 October 2020 (online, with Jenneke van der Wal)
Locality and (a)symmetry in ditransitive constructions, HU Berlin, 22 June 2020 (online)
Locality and (a)symmetry in case and agreement, SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, 12 May 2020 (online)

Universals and typological gaps in subject and object agreement, Syntax Interfaces Lectures Utrecht, Utrecht University, 12 December 2019
Patterns of variation in the expression of case and agreement, BaSIS Brainstorm Workshop, Leiden University, 9 November 2019
Syntactic and typological aspects of a typological gap in ditransitive constructions, Comparative Syntax Meetings (ComSyn), Leiden University, 7 November 2019
Case and agreement in ditransitive constructions, 45th Generative Grammatik des Südens, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 19 July 2019

Possessors in switch-reference, Based on joint work with Irina Nikolaeva. General Linguistics Seminar, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford, 19 November 2018
Object agreement in ditransitive constructions, Keynote at Multiple Agreement across Domains, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 10–11 November 2018

Global case splits, agreement, and dependent case, Syntax/Morphology workshop, University College London, 2 June 2017

DOM=DAT? Some syntactic properties of direct and indirect objects, PCC Workshop, University of Vienna, 10 December 2016
DOM and dative, SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, 27 April 2016
A unified approach to inverse agreement and global case splits, University of Leipzig, 15 January 2016
Deriving case and agreement in monotransitive and ditransitive constructions, Inalco, Paris, 8 January 2016

Syntactic aspects of differential object marking in Hungarian, Bielefeld University, 14 January 2015

Hungarian has differential object agremeent, not clitic doubling, International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH) 17, University of Debrecen, 12 June 2025
A -lAk alak: The -lAk form, International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH) 17, University of Debrecen, 12 June 2025
Hungarian has differential object agremeent, not clitic doubling, North East Syntax Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 30 May 2025
Deriving PCC and person hierarchy effects without object preference, Workshop ‘Understanding obviation: A cross-linguistic perspective’, McGill University, 5 October 2024
Eastern Khanty ‘ergative’ marking is topic demotion, not dependent case, WCCFL 42, University of California, Berkeley, 12 April 2024 (with Nikolett F. Gulyás)

Features or filters? On the relationship between syntax and information structure, GLOW 46, University of Graz and University of Vienna, April 2023 (with Jutta-Maria Hartmann)
Interaction, satisfaction and (a)symmetric object agreement, NELS 53, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 12 January 2023

Analogy in inflection and morphosyntax, 20th International Morphology Meeting, Bud- apest, 4 September 2022 (with Jutta-Maria Hartmann)

Interaction, satisfaction, and object (a)symmetry in Bantu, Structural Asymmetries in African Languages (SAIAL), University of Potsdam

A typological gap in ditransitive alignment, GLOW 43, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8–20 April 2020 (online)
A typological gap in ditransitive alignment, WCCFL 38, University of British Columbia, 8 March 2020

When dependent Case is not enough, GLOW 42, University of Oslo, 8–10 May 2019 (with Michelle Sheehan)

Challenges for dependent case, Workshop ‘On the Place of Case in Grammar’, University of Crete, 18 October 2018 (with Michelle Sheehan)
The syntax of noun phrase-internal possessors in Tundra Nenets, NELS 49, Cornell University, 5 October 2018 (with Irina Nikolaeva)

Possessors in switch-reference, 12th Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology, Australian National University, Canberra, 12 December 2017 (with Irina Nikolaeva)
Budapestet készülöm meglátogatni, International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH) 13, Budapest, 30 June 2017