Going Romance 37 is going to take place in Nijmegen on 30 November-1 December. The program and all info can be found here. Please don’t forget to register, if you wish to attend! You can find the registration form here. The conference will not be streamed.

Our next SRG, on December 1st, is approaching. We will read chapters 5 and 6 of this very recent book (it appeared 5 days ago): Chomsky et al, Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis. The book is available for free download until 4 December from the CUP site:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/merge-and-the-strong-minimalist-thesis/F44DB97F68BB3A5CDB58A4684A3E5E6B Please use the link below to…

The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies is an advanced live program focusing on underrepresented and interdisciplinary fields of study, including critical cultural studies, theoretical linguistics, and more. It will take place in January, entirely online. There will be the chance to attend advanced courses in theoretical linguistics online. The list of…

On the 30th of November we will welcome Susi Wurmbrand, from the University of Vienna, who will give an EXTRA SIL talk. Please notice that the event won’t take place at the usual SIL time. Title: Does semantics determine syntax? Synthesis vs. Cartography Abstract: In this talk, I compare the cartographic model of structure building…

Syntactic ingredients for telicity: An aspectual projection, an aspectual operator, and scalar points Jonathan MacDonald (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), 29th of November.

The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) will take place online on 11-12 November. The program can be found here Attendance is free, but registration is required. All information can be found here.  

On Monday, October 30th at 3-4pm (Utrecht time)  Andrew McKenzie (University of Kansas) will be giving a talk  entitled Polysynthesis and the division of labor in grammar. Here’s the Zoom Link Password: Poly23! Abstract Polysynthesis and the division of labor in grammar    In this talk I argue that some aspects of polysynthesis result from…