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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Éva Dékány

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Éva Dékány (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Eötvös University) Title: ‘Numeral Classifiers: Lessons from Languages of the Americas’ Date/time: June 19th, 2026 / 3pm (CEST) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/Bv4PKoKihm4GkY2x9.

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CRISSP C&A Seminar: Emily Clem

Speaker: Emily Clem (UC San Diego) Title: Shared hierarchy effects in agreement and case Date & time: Friday 5 June 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom

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CSSN talk: Idan Caspi

Idan Caspi will give a talk entitled “Hebrew N+N Toponyms and Animacy” at the Canadian Society for the Study of Names Annual Meeting on 8 June at 4pm. Abstract I argue that many Hebrew toponyms are structurally decomposable, patterning with independently attested grammatical constructions and correlating with animacy. Specifically, Hebrew toponyms often occur as N1+N2…

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CRISSP C&A seminar: Anna Cardinaletti

CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the  CRISSP C&A Seminar Series: Lecturer: Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Title: Concord, Compensatory Concord, and optional feature realization in Italian and Central Italo-Romance varieties Date & time: Friday 22 May 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom (contact us to get the link)  

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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Laura Kalin

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Laura Kalin (Princeton University) Title: Decomposing Vowel Melodies: The Morphology and Syntax of Root-and-Pattern Systems Date/time: May 29th, 2026 / 3:30pm (CET) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/c8uPu2p9SnCvozxcA

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SIL talk: Rishabh Suresh

Speaker: Rishabh Suresh (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) Title: No index, no pro-blem Date: 2 June 2026 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: MS Teams/Utrecht, Trans 10, room 0.19 AbstractIt has long been proposed that languages with null pronominal arguments may be partitioned roughly in terms of how freely they allow pronouns to be covert, with ‘consistent’ languages allowing any and only…

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RoLinC: Natalia Jardón & Teresa Espinal

Speakers: Natalia Jardón & Teresa Espinal ((Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Title: A second person clitic without an addressee: Galician che as the expression of the judge Date/time: 23 June, 2-3pm Link: please contact the organizers

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