Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2102
E-Mail:	l.badan@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL postdoc
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex van Wijkplaats 4 2311 BX Leiden Room number 204A

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Fields of interest

Comparative syntax
Syntax-semantics interface
Pragmatics
Chinese
Kwa languages

Research

Sino-Kwa project

Teaching activities

2010 (winter semester) Advanced Syntax, MA course, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2010 (winter semester) Chinese Linguistics, sessions in Rint Sybesma�€™s undergraduate course, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2010 (summer semester) Syntax 2, BA course, Leiden University, the Netherlands

2009 Advanced Syntax, MA course. Session in Lisa Cheng's MA course, Leiden University The Netherlands.

Curriculum Vitae (short version)

EDUCATION

2003- 2007 PhD in Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
Thesis title: 'High and Low Periphery: a Comparison between Italian and Chinese.'
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/ealc/chinling/html/synformal.htm
Thesis supervisor: Paola Benincà

2006-2007 Visiting student, Leiden University Center for Linguistics, The Netherlands.

2005-2006 Visiting student, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistique sur l'Asie Orientale and Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Laboratoire de Linguistique formelle, Paris

1998-2002 BA. and M.A. in Eastern Languages and Literatures, CA' Foscari University, Venice. Supervisor: Guglielmo Cinque 

2008 LOT Winter School, Leiden University

2006 Ecole d'automne en Linguistique, EALing 4, Department of Cognitive Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris

2006 First EACL Spring School in Chinese Linguistics, Leiden Univerisity, The Netherlands

2004 11th Eastern Generative Grammar Summerschool, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (with abstract selection)

2010 Scalarity in exclamatives in Mandarin Chinese. IACL-18 & NACCL-22, May 20-22, Harvard University (with Lisa Cheng)

Focus in Ewe. TiN-dag, February 6, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (with Leston Buell)

On the prosody and syntax of DPs in Mandarin Chinese. Meeting of DP Network, April 8-9, Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy

2007 The even-construction in Mandarin Chinese, The 5th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, September 4-7, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

On the Left Periphery of Chinese, 15th IACL & 19th NACCL, May 25-27, Columbia University, New York. (with Francesca Del Gobbo)

Topic and Focus in Chinese, Linguistic Society of America 81st Annual Meeting, 4-7 January, Anaheim, CA. (with Francesca Del Gobbo)

2006 On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese. XXèmes Journée de Linguistique d�€™Asie Orientale, European Symposium on East Asian Linguistics, June 22-24, CRLAO/CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France. (with Francesca Del Gobbo) WECOL 2006, poster session, October 27-29, California State University, Fresno. (with Francesca Del Gobbo) Chicago Workshop on Chinese Linguistics, 1-2 December, University of Chicago, Illinois. (with Francesca Del Gobbo).

Modals in Mandarin Chinese and the Universal Base Hypothesis. Colloque Etudiants-Chercheurs en Didactique des Langues et Linguistique, Grenoble, France.

2005 Topic and Focus in Chinese: A Preliminary Study. La Peripherie Gauche de la phrase Structure et Functions, Federation Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques-CNRS, Paris. (with Francesca Del Gobbo)

The Left Periphery in Chinese: Towards a Finer Structure. XIXèmes Journées de Linguistique d�€™Asie Orientale, European Symposium on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO/CNRS-EHESS, Paris.

Osservazioni sul Sardo. Funzione e morfologia degli ausiliari, Giornata di Lavoro dei seminari ASIt, Università di Padova, Italia.

2004 Forme grammaticali in alcune varietà cinesi urbane, Convegno Internazionale di Studi Dialetti in città, Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada, Sappada/Plodn (BL). (with Francesca Del Gobbo) _

(without abstract selection)

2011 The subject clitic alternation in Ewe: a mood-based analysis. TiN-dag, February 5, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (with Leston Buell)

2010 Subjects in Ewe. Annual Conference on African Linguistics, May 6-8, Toronto University, Canada (with Leston Buell)
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INVITED TALKS

2010 NP-phrasing in Bemba, Chinese and Italian. Bantu, Chinese, Romance Nouns and Noun phrases Network Final Conference, October 29, Leiden University (with F. Scholz, G. Fiorin and N. Kula)

Mandarin NPs and durational/iterative modifiers: exploring the syntax-semantics interface. Bare Nouns and Genericity Noms Nus et Généricité, October 7-8, Université Paris Diderot (with Marta Donazzan)

Surprise and non-surprise exclamatives. Seminari del Laboratorio di Ricerca in Linguistica, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Cognitivi sul Linguaggio, June 15, Universita` degli Studi di Siena. (with Lisa Cheng)

Towards a structural analysis on focus in Ewe. June 23, Department Afrique INALCO, Paris

2009 Examining notion of Information Structure in Chinese. China seminar, April 22, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen Talen en Culturen van China, Leiden University

2008 Can we keep only the lowest copy? The case of Mandarin sentence initial dou construction. Research Seminar City University of Hong Kong

2007 Le Periferie: cinese e italiano a confronto. Seminari del Laboratorio di Ricerca in Linguistica, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Cognitivi sul Linguaggio, Universita` degli Studi di Siena.

2006 Focus and Topic: Français, Italien, Chinois, (Japonais). Universite' Paris 7, UFR de Linguistique, Paris.

Key publications

2010 On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese. In P. Benincà and N. Munaro (eds.) Mapping the Left Periphery. Oxford University Press. (with Francesca Del Gobbo, University of California, Irvine)

2008b The even-construction in Mandarin Chinese. In R. Djamouri and R. Sybesma (eds.) Chinese Linguistics in Leipzig. Paris: EHESS-CRLAO

2008a Preposed Object and Low Periphery in Mandarin Chinese. StiL Working CISCL Working Papers on Language and Cognition (ed. V. Moscati) http://mitwpl.mit.edu/

2006 Osservazioni sul Sardo. Funzione e morfologia degli ausiliari. In A. Padovan and N. Penello (eds.) Quaderni di Lavoro dell�€™ASIt 6: 18-36. Atti della Giornata di Lavoro dell' ASIt sui dialetti Sardi, 31 Maggio, 2005, Università di Padova. http://asit.maldura.unipd.it/papers.html

2005 Forme grammaticali in alcune varietà cinesi urbane. In G. Marcato (ed.) Dialetti in città, Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada/Plodn. Padova: Unipress, 365-370. (with Francesca Del Gobbo, University of California, Irvine)