Heritage Language Syntax 6 (HLS6) will take place at Bogazici University in Istanbul on 6-7 November. The program can be found here. HLS6 will be streamed. Please contact the organizers if you wish to attend online

Speaker: Laura Stigliano (Ohio State University) Title: ​The landscape of verbal ellipsis in Galician (joint work with María Morado Vázquez) Date/Time: 28/10/2025 2pm Abstract: This talk discusses the landscape of verbal ellipsis in Galician, focusing on Aux-Stranding VP-Ellipsis (1B), Verb-Echo Answers (2B), and Modal Ellipsis. Galician is unique among Romance languages (along with Portuguese) in allowing the first two phenomena: (1)…

Lecturer: Giuliana Giusti Title: Feature Merger and Feature Realization. A unifying approach to nominal structure Date & time: Thursday 23 October 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET Location: Zoom

We are happy to announce the establishment of the Syntax Circle! The Syntax Circle brings together all (morpho)syntacticians working on formal linguistics in the Netherlands. Formal linguistics is the kind of research that is aimed specifically at contributing to knowledge about the formal, structural and conceptual properties of the faculty of language in general, as is…

Full Title: Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure Date: 21-Nov-2025 – 23-Nov-2025 Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Meeting Email: seams2025@ucy.ac.cy Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology Call Deadline: 26-Oct-2025 Call for Papers: As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are…

Speakers: Giulia Mazzola, Michelle Sheehan, Clementine Raffy, and Liam Garside (Newcastle University) Title: The syntax and semantics of visual and auditory perception in Romance languages Date/time: 14th October, 2-3 pm Abstract Abstract: Wurmbrand and Lohninger (2023), building on Givón (2001),propose a principle of Minimally Required Domains, whereby in order for a syntactic structure to map to a given semantic object, it must be of…

Workshop Argument structure in minimalism, in honor of Marjolein Talsma on the day of her defense Date: October 30, 2025, University of Groningen Program 14:00-17:00 room 1312.0018 14:00 Marjolein Talsma (University of Groningen) The automatic linking of arguments and theta-roles in nonfinite contexts 14:30 Nobert Corver (Utrecht University) On R-adjectives and unification 15:00 Angeliek van…