On 16 and 18 March Mara Frascarelli (University of Roma Tre) will give a crash course entitled Superiority in Fronting: A syntax-semantics interface approach to optionality. The course is open to everyone. Timetable Monday 16, 11:00-13:00, KNG 80, 1.06 Wednesday 18, 11:00-13:00, Drift 23, 0.12 If you wish to join it online you can use…

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 once a month, the 1st…

Speaker: Pierre Larrivée (Université de Caen Normandie) Title: Subject inversion in the history of Gascon Date/Time: 3 March, 2-3pm Location: Zoom (Please register here  for the link) Abstract Gascon is a distinct variety in the Occitan continuum which has largely been understudied, especially where its syntax is concerned (an opinion shared by Sibille and Bach 2024)….

Luana Sorgini will defend her dissertation on Differential Object Marking in Heritage Italo-Romance: A Microcontact Perspective on Friday 27 at 14:15. The defense can be followed online at this link This is the last PhD of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective.

The 4th Heritage Language Syntax Brainstorming meeting will take place on the 30th of March at 2pm. Heritage languages are minority languages by definition. However, not all heritage languages have the same status: some emigrant heritage languages have a majority language as their baseline in another country, while others have a dialect or a minority language as…

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…