Mike Putnam (Penn State University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on the 28th of March. Title: The syntax of umlaut – a cursory overview of the diachronic (& synchronic) development of plural in German(ic) If you are not in the Teams SIL group, please contact the organizers so they can add you. If you…

EMLAR XX (Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research) 2024 will take place at Utrecht University and online on 16-18 April. This conference, hosted at the Institute for Language Sciences of Utrecht University, provides talks and hands-on experience with various methods of experimental research in language acquisition. Experts in various domains of language acquisition research will…

A Split-Merge approach to argument structure Abstract In this talk, I discuss a novel way of associating arguments with their predicate, based on the concept of Split-Merge (Zwart 2009). Where traditional Merge is binary and combines two elements into one, Zwart’s Split-Merge is unary and only targets one element at a time. The main view presented…

This talk was canceled! RoLinC talk: Cristina Tortora (CUNY) Title: Vernacular orthography and syntactic structure Zoom: please contact the organizers

The next RoLinC talk will be given by Antonio Fábregas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), who will present a talk with the title Person features and non-specific readings of speech participants Attendance is free, but registration is needed. Please contact the organizers for a link.

The next Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Linguistics Department of Tel Aviv University will be held by Jim Wood (Yale), presenting joint work with  Einar Freyr Sigurðsson. The talk will be entitled Coordination of Verbs in Icelandic Attendance is free. Abstract Zoom link

The next Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Linguistics Department of Tel Aviv University will be held by Elise Newman (MIT). The talk will be entitled When wh-phrases are their own interveners. Attendance is free. Abstract Much work on syntactic locality has shown that processes like wh-movement are subject to several kinds of locality restrictions. In…