Speaker: Aoju Chen (UU) Title: The categoricality of intonational events Date/time: Thursday 18 June, 15:00-16:00 Place: Drift 6, room 0.07 Abstract When listening to speech, we readily distinguish sounds such as /b/ and /p/, and speakers of tone languages categorise lexical tones. But what about intonation in non-tone languages, e.g., the rises and falls in…

On Wednesday 17 June, Jan Winkowski will defend their dissertation ‘Memory retrieval in presupposition processing: An experimental and computational approach’. Location: Hybrid: online (click here) and at the Utrecht University Hall Workshop following the defense of Jan Winkowski Yoad Winter “Non-Maximal Reciprocity” Leendert van Maanen “Towards validating ACT-R models using neural time-series analyses” Bruno Nicenboim “The CoFI…

Lecturer: Sonia Cyrino (State University of Campinas) Title: On 3rd person singular null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: the role of (non)-agreement Date & time: Friday 12 June 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom

Speaker: Mamoru Saito (Notre Dame Seishin University and University of Connecticut) Topic:  Move-α, Free Merge, and Scrambling (abstract) Date: Friday, 3 July 2026, 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC) – note the earlier time than usual! How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information will be sent out the day before the talk to those registered on the REFLECTIONS website. Registration is free to…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Éva Dékány (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Eötvös University) Title: ‘Numeral Classifiers: Lessons from Languages of the Americas’ Date/time: June 19th, 2026 / 3pm (CEST) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/Bv4PKoKihm4GkY2x9.

Speaker: Emily Clem (UC San Diego) Title: Shared hierarchy effects in agreement and case Date & time: Friday 5 June 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom

Idan Caspi will give a talk entitled “Hebrew N+N Toponyms and Animacy” at the Canadian Society for the Study of Names Annual Meeting on 8 June at 4pm. Abstract I argue that many Hebrew toponyms are structurally decomposable, patterning with independently attested grammatical constructions and correlating with animacy. Specifically, Hebrew toponyms often occur as N1+N2…