On March 30, Caterina Donati (LLF, CNRS) will give a SIL talk with the title Reduced structures and invisible agreement.  Abstract  Reduced structures and invisible agreement (joint work with Carlo Cecchetto) Cecchetto & Donati 2022 (C&D) propose an analysis of a number of reduced structures in Italian which builds on Chomsky’s (2019) claim that sentences…

Wolfram Hinzen (U Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) will give a keynote talk within EMLAR 2023. The talk will be entitled Language function as a privileged window into cognitive change and decline. Registration is required. Attendance is free for ILS members. More information on the EMLAR webpage. Abstract Language function as a privileged window into cognitive change…

The next colloquium talk will be given by Roberta D’Alessandro (UIL). The talk will be entitled Microcontact: 5 years later Abstract This talk will start out from where we left, in a presentation I held in at UiL-OTS in 2018. On the 15th of March 2018, I presented there my ERC project Microcontact, that had…

EMLAR (Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research) XIX will take place in hybrid format (at Utrecht University; virtually) on Tuesday April 18th, Wednesday 19th, and Thursday 20th, 2023. The workshop will feature talks, tutorials, and a poster session, and a keynote talk by Wolfram Hinzen The program and all the info for registration can be found…

Yasu Sudo will give a talk entitled Implicature priming, inverse preference, and context adaptation on February 13 at 11:00 Abstract (based on joint work with Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli and Richard Breheny) Previous studies that use priming to investigate scalar implicatures (SIs) observe that SIs arise more often after strong primes—priming trials that force readings with…

Marijke de Belder (Utrecht University) will give a talk at the PSU Morpho-Syn Syndicate meeting next Monday, the 30th of January, at 4pm (Utrecht time). The title of the talk is Language-internal variation: Dutch primary compounding Abstract In this talk I discuss variation in Dutch primary compounding. I argue that Dutch has at least three…

The CHAMP (Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes) Workshop will take place at UCL in London on January 20-21. Invited speakers Rajesh Bhatt (UMass), Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht), Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) PROGRAM Day 1 20th January Venue: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, B07 (Basement) Zoom Link Meeting ID: 960 1844 7028, Passcode: 025676 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome…