The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Lisa Travis (McGill University):   Date: Friday, 19 September 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Topic: Reflections on the Place of Head Movement in Generative Grammar (abstract)   How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information will be sent out the day…

Speaker: Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) Title: On the structure of verbalization Date/time: August 15th, 2025 / 4pm (CET) Place: Google Meet Registration: https://tinyurl.com/mv9wh82e  

The first  installment of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 1) will take place in Amsterdam on 17–18 September 2025. The program of LiCLA 1 is now online: https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/licla-1/program/ Registration will be opened in the second half of August.

Speaker: Michael T Putnam Title: Distributed Morphology in Diachrony: The trajectory of umlaut in German Date/time: 24 July, 3pm Place: Google Meet Abstract: Although the application of Distributed Morphology (DM), and related neo-constructionist, late-insertion frameworks, to bi/multilingual data has opened the door to collaborations between formal linguists and language scientists (López 2020, to appear; Lohndal…

Speaker: Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena) Title: Verb second in main and embedded clauses in Ladin Date and Time: 24th June, 2-3pm Venue: Zoom If you wish to participate please contact the RoLinC organizers here

Speaker: Pritha Chandra (IIT Delhi) Title: The syntax of politeness in Eastern Indo-Aryan Time/place: 4pm, Muntstraat 2A, room 1.11/MS Teams Abstract Recent years have seen considerable research around the representation of discourse-related constructs such as Speech Act Participants, politeness/honorificity etc in the syntactic tree (cf. Speas and Tenny 2003; Miyagawa 2012; Portner et al 2019;…

Speaker: Veronica Girolami (University of Verona) Title: Combining Unaccusativity Diagnostics in Romance: Preliminary Evidence from Italian and French Place/time: Zoom, 2-3pm More information