Lecturer: Anna Grabovac (University of Pennsylvania) Title: Disagreement in concord Date & time: Friday 13 February 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom Abstract Concord (agreement within the nominal domain) has often been analyzed using the same machinery as argument– predicate agreement. In minimalist work, analyses typically center around the Agree operation. At the same time, it has been recognized…

Speakers: Mihaela Pîrvulescu, Alexandru Mardale & Elena Soare (University of Paris 8 & CNRS Structures Formelles du Langage) Title: The acquisition of generic plural nouns in Heritage Romanian in a trilingual setting Date/time: February 23, 4-6 PM Abstract This presentation investigates the use of plural nouns in the generic context among two groups of heritage…

Speakers: Kohei Haneda (International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain, University of Groningen, Macquarie University, and University of Potsdam), Anja Schüppert (University of Groningen), Roel Jonkers (University of Groningen), and Anita Szakay (Macquarie University) Title: Syntax-Vision Interface: The Impact of Visual Cues in Real-time Ellipsis Resolution Place: Trans 10, 0.19 and MS teams Date/time:…

Speakers:Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) & Isabelle Charnavel (Université de Genève) Title: ϕ-features and Presupposition: Sylleptic agreement in English and French Place: Zoom Date/time: 10 February 14:00-15:00 How to join: email the organizers for the link

Speaker: Mara Frascarelli (Roma Tre) Title: The interpretation of (c)overt Subjects in Romance Languages. An experimental comparative account Place: t.b.a. / MS Teams Date/time: 17 March, 4-5pm    

Speaker: Craig Tiersch (U Potsdam, UU) Title: t.b.a. Place: t.b.a. Date/time: 26 February 16:00-17:00

The next meeting of the Reading the classics reading group will take place on the 5th of March on MSTeams. We will be reading and discussing: Chapter 2 of Kayne, Zanuttini & Leu: Joan W. Bresnan, On Complementizers: Toward a Syntactic Theory of Complement Types. In Foundations of Language 6 (1970): 297–321. Reading the classics meets…