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MiMA midway workshop on 10 November

We are excited to invite you to the official midway workshop of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University! The MiMA team is proud to host this workshop to share its first findings and gather feedback, but also give the floor to others to present current work in the domains of manner and/or comparative adverbial morpho-syntax. Please…

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SIL talk: Elisabeth Kerr

Dear all, We are pleased to announce you that the first Syntax Interface Lecture of the season will take place on Thursday September 14th from 16:00 until 17:00 both on site (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06) and on our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Elisabeth Kerr (Leiden…

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Norbert Corver – 60 – workshop – July 10 2023

Slight change in the program (see below) Dear friends and colleagues of Norbert, For Norbert’s 60th birthday we, his colleagues from Dutch linguistics and his current PhD-students, organize an afternoon with lectures and we invite you all to join us for some linguistic merriment. The workshop will take place on Monday July 10th from 1400-1700…

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LOT Schultink Memorial lecture: Alec Marantz

During this years LOT Summer School, we will have the pleasure of hosting the Schultink Lecture to be delivered by Alec Marantz (NYU). The school will last for the two first weeks of July, the lecture taking place during the second week.   Date:    July 13 Time:    4:30 PM Place:   Drift 21,…

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ROCKY Project Final Workshop

On 10-11 July 2023, the ERC ROCKY project will hold its final workshop. Attenders who would like to join for lunch, please write Yoad Winter by 1 July. Program Monday, 10 July 2023 09:00-09:15 Reception and opening Session 1 – experimental semantics 09:15-10:00 James Hampton: Long blue coats and Large dark glasses: Conjunctions of unidimensional vague adjectives…

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CANCELED: SIL talk: Elisabeth Kerr

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this talk is CANCELED. It will be rescheduled to September. Elisabeth Kerr (Leiden University) will give a SIL talk on the 29th of June. The talk is entitled When object movement splits the noun phrase Abstract Discontinuous noun phrases are familiar from languages where a difference in information structural (IS) status…

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