TODAY (10 January) ay 5:30 pm Markus Pöchtrager will give an NYI Distinguished Linguist talk with the title “Phonology Goes Syntax”. Attendance is free but registration is required. You can register here. Abstract To what extent do the individual modules of grammar share a similar architecture? In this talk we will ask that question about…

The REEDS-network is very happy to announce a new installment in the REEDStalks lecture series. Speakers: Hannah Gibson (University of Essex), Lutz Marten (SOAS) & Teresa Poeta (University of Essex) Title: Researching morphosyntactic variation in Swahili Date and time: Friday, 19 January at 15:00 CET Location: Zoom Abstract: pdf   All of the upcoming talks…

Roberta D’Alessandro (UU), The many natures of DOM

Matilde Marcolli, who visited our university in October, gave a series of five lectures at the MIT Linguistics Department on her joint work with Noam Chomsky and Bob Berwick on the mathematical structure of Syntactic Merge. The videos of all the lectures are available here The slides of all the talks are available here The…

On the 21st of December, Henriette de Swart and Bert Le Bruyn will present the results of their 5-year project Time in Translation ———————– Abstract In this talk, we report results from the Time in Translation project (https://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl/) carried out at Utrecht University between 2017 and 2022. Reference to time and events is part of human…

Priming scalar alternatives: The effects of negation and antonymy

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.