On the 21st of December, Henriette de Swart and Bert Le Bruyn will present the results of their 5-year project Time in Translation ———————– Abstract In this talk, we report results from the Time in Translation project (https://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl/) carried out at Utrecht University between 2017 and 2022. Reference to time and events is part of human…

Priming scalar alternatives: The effects of negation and antonymy

Going Romance 37 is going to take place in Nijmegen on 30 November-1 December. The program and all info can be found here. Please don’t forget to register, if you wish to attend! You can find the registration form here. The conference will not be streamed.

Our next SRG, on December 1st, is approaching. We will read chapters 5 and 6 of this very recent book (it appeared 5 days ago): Chomsky et al, Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis. The book is available for free download until 4 December from the CUP site:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/merge-and-the-strong-minimalist-thesis/F44DB97F68BB3A5CDB58A4684A3E5E6B Please use the link below to…

The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies is an advanced live program focusing on underrepresented and interdisciplinary fields of study, including critical cultural studies, theoretical linguistics, and more. It will take place in January, entirely online. There will be the chance to attend advanced courses in theoretical linguistics online. The list of…

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.