On May 7, Xavier Villalba (Autonomous University of Barcelona) will be giving a talk entitled, ​Mirative markers in Romance exclamative sentences.  Abstract: Exclamative sentences in Romance involve a rich set of markers whose syntactic position and semantic/pragmatic meaning is unclear. Consider the markers (mrk) in boldface in the exclamative sentences in (1): (1) a.  Si      (que)…

For more than sixty years, developments in linguistic theory (particularly in the generative tradition) have significantly influenced philosophers’ thinking about language and the mind. Likewise, philosophers’ discussions on the nature of language, the mind, and the world have influenced how linguists understand and model language. This conference brings together philosophers and linguists to discuss topics in…

The REEDS-network is very happy to announce a new installment in the REEDStalks lecture series. Speaker: Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Title: The Emergence of Politeness: Evidence from Dialects Date and time: Friday, 10 May at 15:00 CET (Click here to add to your Google calendar) Location: Zoom Abstract: pdf  

Speaker: George Walkden (University of Konstanz) Title: Adult language acquisition and syntactic change Date: Thu 2 May Location: Lipsius 1.33 Zoom: Meeting ID: 617 3017 2255 – Passcode: 1qx8Vm4? (link) Time: 16:15 – 17:30 Abstract This talk will assess the place of adult language acquisition as an explanatory factor in syntactic change, making the case that certain changes can only be…

Our next Syntax reading group meeting is scheduled for May 2, at 12 noon. We will read a “provocative” paper by our next SIL talk Jairo Nuñes, entitled Linearizing chains at LF, in Gallego and Martins (2018), Language, Syntax and Natural Sciences, CUP. The paper is available at the UB as ebook. I’ll also put…

The next Lectures on Iranian Linguistics in Arizona (LILA) talk will be given by Pritha Chandra (IIT Delhi) and Roberta D’Alessandro (ILS Utrecht University). Title: The role of object marking in alignment shift Time: 5pm (CET) Abstract This talk presents some findings on an ongoing shift from ergative alignment to accusative alignment, with an empirical…

The next ComSyn talk, by Karen De Clercq, is titled The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion. Speaker: Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité) Title: The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion Date: Thu 18 April Location: Lipsius 1.33 and Zoom Time: 16.15 – 17.30 If you wish to follow the talk via Zoom…