The next Syntax Reading Group will take place on November 2 at 12 noon on Teams (link below) We will be reading Larson (2021), Rethinking Cartography. You can find the file in the Teams Files folder. Should you wish to attend but not yet part of the group, please email me (Roberta) so I can add…

ONLINE ONLY – notice that, because of Ciarán approaching, the event will be held only online Enoch Aboh and Meg Smith (UvA) will give the next SIL talk, on 2 November TITLE: There should be no room for Modern English to exist: A view from the past Abstract In the first part of the talk,…

REFLECTIONS: FOUNDATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR is an online lecture series organized by CSU, where long-standing scholars who continue to contribute to the development of syntactic theory will reflect on their early work from a current perspective, tracing the development of the theory over time. We invite you to participate with us in this…

Jakub Dotlacil will give the next ILS Colloquium talk. The talk is entitled Language, Linguistics and Memory All welcome! Abstract One challenge that linguistics faces is how to connect linguistic theories, which are often developed as rich symbolic and discrete systems that abstract away from cognitive capacities, to experimental behavioral data, which are continuous and…

The talk by Steven Foley on 12 October is CANCELED!   Steven Foley (University of Southern California) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on 12 October, with the title Inverted agents and demoted goals in Georgian Abstract Case marking in Georgian transitive clauses differs across tense categories. Most strikingly, external arguments in perfect tenses “invert”:…

We are restarting our glorious syntax reading group! The SRG will meet monthly at alternate days (first Friday and first Thursday); we will read papers in preparation for the SIL talks, so that we can engage better with the speakers and enjoy and understand the talks much better. We will meet on our old Teams…

(Please note that the times are all in EST/Montreal!) The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions.  Can morphology and syntax be unified under purely Merge…