Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Xuhui Hu (Peking University), joint work with Danfeng Wu (University of Geneva) Title: ‘Polar Question Particles: Cross-linguistic Variation and Formal Explanation’ Date/time: May 8, 2026 / 2pm (CET) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/aodbKGniTjHjnjZF7.

Speaker: Hilda Koopman (UCLA) Title: On Head Movement and Phrasal Movement Date/Time: 15 April, 6pm Please register to receive a Zoom link the day before the talk

Speaker: Madhusmitha Venkatesan (IIT Delhi) Title: Exploring Stability and Change in Heritage Grammars: Derived Adjectives in Heritage Tamil Time/Venue: 27 March, 4pm (CET), Ms Teams (if you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Team, please contact the organizers for the link) Abstract Heritage grammars tend to undergo change owing to their constrained…

Speaker: Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France) Title: Co-occurrence and ordering constraints on topics and foci in Romance and beyond Time/place: 2-3pm, Zoom Abstract One of the significant empirical contributions of the cartographic program has been the discovery of cross-linguistically stable ordering and co-occurrence constraints in functional structures (Cinque 1999 on the structure of IP, Rizzi…

Morphology as Syntax 4  When: Friday, April 17, 2026 Keynote speakers: Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani Christina Tortora Location: Queens College, City University of New York  Queens Hall 250, 65-21 Main Street Flushing, NY 11367 https://www.qc.cuny.edu/home1/ Attendance online is free but you’ll need to register. Please register here.

Speakers: Marijana Marelj (UU) and Ora Matushansky (CNRS/UU) Title: Slavic deajectival uncausatives and decausatives Time/place: 30 April, Trans 10 – room 0.19 / MS Team Link: if you’re not in the SIL teams, please contact the organizers Abstract  Deadjectival degree achievements in Slavic come in two varieties, distinguished both by their thematic suffix (-e– vs. –i-)…

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, Trans 10, 0.19 (room change!) If you wish to join it online you…