On the 30th of November we will welcome Susi Wurmbrand, from the University of Vienna, who will give an EXTRA SIL talk. Please notice that the event won’t take place at the usual SIL time. Title: Does semantics determine syntax? Synthesis vs. Cartography Abstract: In this talk, I compare the cartographic model of structure building…

Syntactic ingredients for telicity: An aspectual projection, an aspectual operator, and scalar points Jonathan MacDonald (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), 29th of November.

The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) will take place online on 11-12 November. The program can be found here Attendance is free, but registration is required. All information can be found here.  

On Monday, October 30th at 3-4pm (Utrecht time)  Andrew McKenzie (University of Kansas) will be giving a talk  entitled Polysynthesis and the division of labor in grammar. Here’s the Zoom Link Password: Poly23! Abstract Polysynthesis and the division of labor in grammar    In this talk I argue that some aspects of polysynthesis result from…

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…