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REFLECTIONS: Hagit Borer

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: FOUNDATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR will continue with Reflecting on the Generative Word by Hagit Borer (QMUL) on Saturday, April 20th How to attend: You can register here to get a Zoom link Zoom Information will be sent out the day before the talk to those registered on the…

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The Pancheva Lectures

CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series: Lecturer: Roumyana Pancheva (UC Santa Cruz) Title: The syntax and semantics of comparison Date & time: March 26, 27, and 29 2024, 12.30–15.30 (Tue-Wed), 10.00–13.00 (Fri) Participation: free Location (in person): KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven Campus, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, room LETT 05.30 (Tue), LETT 00.18…

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Heritage Language Syntax

Heritage Language Syntax is a platform built around the Heritage Language Syntax (HLS) workshop series. It focuses on heritage and/or minority language syntax, with particular attention to language change in contact and its bearings on our knowledge and understanding of syntactic theory. We have several workshops planned, but we are also going to host methodology…

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RoLinC talk: Fabienne Martin

Talk: Tomorrow ​(19th March) at 12-1pm (UK time), Fabienne Martin (Utrecht University) will be giving a talk entitled,​The ‘no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined.  Abstract: Weak scalar expressions like English It is possible that P (defeasibly) implicate the negation of their stronger alternatives such as It is certain that P (Grice 1967,…

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REEDS talk: Frances Blanchette & Cynthia Lukyanenko

Speakers: Frances Blanchette (Penn State University) & Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason University) Title: What’s in a grammar? Microsyntactic variation in American English negative dependencies Date and time: Friday, 15 March at 17:00 CET (Click here to add to your Google calendar) Location: Zoom Abstract: pdf   All of the upcoming talks in the REEDStalks series are listed on the REEDS-website,…

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