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

The workshop Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages will be held in Paris (Inalco) / Zoom on June 6 2025.  Invited speakers: Roberta D’Alessandro & Sivia Terenghi (University of Utrecht) Organizers: Elena Soare (Univ. Paris 8 & CNRS), Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS) and Larisa Avram (Univ. Bucharest) Program 9:30-9 :45 Welcome and…

Speakers: Lena Baunaz (Université Côte d’Azur) & Anne-Li Demonie (Masaryk University) Title: Is expletive negation a unitary phenomenon? A cross-linguistic investigation of fear vs until-clauses Time: 2-3pm Place: Zoom If you wish to attend this talk, please contact the organizers

REFLECTIONS Talk Series will continue with a talk by Rita Manzini (University of Florence): Date: 27 June 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) – Notice the change to Friday! Topic: Language Variation and Universals in Generative Models How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new link) will be sent out the day before the talk…