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…

The final research talk of the Spring 2024 semester, on Monday 15 April, will be given by Yvonne van Baal, Terje Lohndal, David Natvig, and Mike Putnam. The title of their talk is Comparing models of the syntax-morphology interface with heritage language data. Abstract The conceptualization of features remains a central theme in generative approaches…

The next PSU Morpho-Syn Syndicate Research Group talk will be given by Dr. Florian Schäfer (HU-Berlin). The title will be Anticausatives as weak scalar expressions: evidence from French, German and English. If you wish to attend and you’re not in the mailing list, please email Mike Putnam and ask to be sent the link. Abstract…