Chomsky’s Minimalist Program turns 30 this year! Here, some key figures in the development of this research framework share their reflections. You can watch Željko Bošković, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, and Juan Uriagereka, moderated by Cilene Rodrigues and Marcelo Sibaldo, at this link.  

Speaker: Tamara Dobler (VU Amsterdam) Date and time: Thursday November 20 from 15:30-17:00 Location: Janskerkhof 13, room 0.06 Title: Polysemy and the semantics-pragmatics distinction Abstract: Polysemy has long been at the centre of debates about the interface between lexical semantics and pragmatics. A persistent question is whether the multiple aspects of meaning associated with words…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Jim Wood (Yale University) Title: Noun-Adjective Compounds in English and Icelandic Date/time: November 25, 2025 / 5pm (CET) Place: Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/3iodZw9ZWcwEAB3m7.

Speaker: Emanuela Pinna (UPF Barcelona) Title: Past Participle Agreement in Romance: Between Syntax and Morpho-Phonology Date: 19 November 2025 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06 / MS Teams Abstract:Past Participle Agreement (PPA) in the Romance Perfect has been widely studied since G&B (Kayne 1989; Belletti 2011 ao), but it has also received renewed attention in…

Speaker: Michelle Suijkerbuijk (CLS, Radboud University Nijmegen) Title: The success of Neural Language Models on syntactic island effects is not universal: strong wh-island sensitivity in English but not in Dutch Date: 24 November 2025 Time: 11:15 – 12:15 Location: Trans 10, room 0.19 /MS Teams Abstract A much-debated question in linguistics is whether learning language requires a language-specific…

Speaker: Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) Title: Finiteness and suppletion: evidence from Romance Time: 2-3 pm Place: Register here (online) Abstract: In this talk I will continue the line of argument developed in Micali et al (2025) and explore the way suppletive patterns split across sub-domains of the verbal paradigm and according to the different functions (main verb vs…

Speaker: Ivona Kučerová Title: Not all probes are equal, or are they? Date & time: Thursday 13 November 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET Zoom link: please contact the organizers