The seventh GLOWing lecture “How syntax grows: limits of learning and learning the limits” will be given by Athulya Aravind (MIT), with Adriana Belletti (Università di Siena) as the discussant. Date: May 16, 09:00 EDT / 15:00 CEST Topic: Language Acquisition The lecture will be open for anyone! Feel free to share this with your…

ICSS 2025 will take place in Andong, South Korea, on August 11-13 2025. This conference brings together scholars investigating the cognitive, biological, and computational foundations of language within the biolinguistic framework that Noam Chomsky has pioneered. Under the theme “Towards K-Humanities: Thought, Structure, and Language Design,” we explore how language, as a thought-generating system, reflects…

EMLaR/ILS Colloquium: Sonja Kotz 17 April 2025   Date:                  17 April 2025 Time:                  15:30-17:00 (Note: there will be coffee/tea and cake before the talk, and drinks afterwards.) Location:            Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Room 0.06 Title:                   Time and rhythm matter in music and speech Speaker:            Sonja Kotz (EMLaR 2025 keynote speaker)   Abstract…

Asya Achimova: A neo-Gricean account of indirect communication Date: Monday, 14 April 2025 Time: 11:00-12:00 Location: Muntstraat 2A, room 111   More details about the talks, including abstracts, can be found on the ELITU website. If you would like to present in the ELITU series, please get in touch with one of the organizers. The…

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will organize an online summer school, ‘The Syntax of Discourse’, from the 2nd of July to the 4th of July 2025. The three-day-long event will feature lectures by eminent scholars on wide-ranging discourse-related topics. The school aims to train students on the current state of research on the…

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​Astrid van Alem on Monday 28 April 2025. Lecturer:  Astrid van Alem (Leiden University and Utrecht University) ​Title: Is quantitative er a head? Insights from ellipsis interactions Date & time: Monday 28 April 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (in person): Meertens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK…

Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) Title: Beyond categorisers? DATE: 28 March Time: 4-5 pm Abstract Marantz (1996; 1997; et seq.) introduced a view of lexical categories according to which so-called lexical nouns, verbs, and adjectives result  from acategorial roots being categorised in grammar by categorising heads n, v, and a. Since then, research has only turned up modest…