On the 25th of September, we will host a workshop in honor of Rick Nouwen, on the occasion of his departure from Utrecht University, to thank him for his great contribution to UU Linguistics. PROGRAM 14.15-14.30 Opening 14.30-15.05 Lisa Bylinina: Augustinian BabyLM 15.05-15.40 Albert Gatt: Evaluating LLMs with LLMs: Whose judgements do we capture? 15.40-15.50…

Speaker: Chris Collins (NYU) Title: Morphology as Syntax Date/Time: 24 August, 4:00 pm Series: Syntactic Pathways To Morphology Online Lecture Series (organised by Vitor Nóbrega of the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo) If you wish to attend, please register here

CRISSP-workshop “Displaced Dialects” Displaced Dialects (DD) November 19–20, 2026 CRISSP is proud to host the REEDS-workshop Displaced Dialects, to be held on 19–20 November 2026 in Leuven. The workshop focuses on formal, (historical) sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic approaches to heritage dialect syntax. This two‐day workshop brings together scholars from formal, (historical) sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic backgrounds to discuss…

Speaker: Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Title: Expletive complementizers and epistemicity in exclamatives and beyond Date/time: Monday, June 22, 2026, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm  Introduced by: Andrea Moro & Matteo Greco (IUSS Pavia) In this talk, Prof. Villalba will argue that the presence of expletive que/che is not a case of free optionality. Drawing on…

Speaker: Aoju Chen (UU) Title: The categoricality of intonational events Date/time: Thursday 18 June, 15:00-16:00 Place: Drift 6, room 0.07 Abstract When listening to speech, we readily distinguish sounds such as /b/ and /p/, and speakers of tone languages categorise lexical tones. But what about intonation in non-tone languages, e.g., the rises and falls in…

On Wednesday 17 June, Jan Winkowski will defend their dissertation ‘Memory retrieval in presupposition processing: An experimental and computational approach’. Location: Hybrid: online (click here) and at the Utrecht University Hall Workshop following the defense of Jan Winkowski Yoad Winter “Non-Maximal Reciprocity” Leendert van Maanen “Towards validating ACT-R models using neural time-series analyses” Bruno Nicenboim “The CoFI…

Lecturer: Sonia Cyrino (State University of Campinas) Title: On 3rd person singular null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: the role of (non)-agreement Date & time: Friday 12 June 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom