Speaker: Pierre Larrivée (Université de Caen Normandie) Title: Subject inversion in the history of Gascon Date/Time: 3 March, 2-3pm Location: Zoom (Please register here  for the link) Abstract Gascon is a distinct variety in the Occitan continuum which has largely been understudied, especially where its syntax is concerned (an opinion shared by Sibille and Bach 2024)….

Luana Sorgini will defend her dissertation on Differential Object Marking in Heritage Italo-Romance: A Microcontact Perspective on Friday 27 at 14:15. The defense can be followed online at this link This is the last PhD of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective.

The 4th Heritage Language Syntax Brainstorming meeting will take place on the 30th of March at 2pm. Heritage languages are minority languages by definition. However, not all heritage languages have the same status: some emigrant heritage languages have a majority language as their baseline in another country, while others have a dialect or a minority language as…

Lecturer: Anna Grabovac (University of Pennsylvania) Title: Disagreement in concord Date & time: Friday 13 February 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom Abstract Concord (agreement within the nominal domain) has often been analyzed using the same machinery as argument– predicate agreement. In minimalist work, analyses typically center around the Agree operation. At the same time, it has been recognized…

Speakers: Mihaela Pîrvulescu, Alexandru Mardale & Elena Soare (University of Paris 8 & CNRS Structures Formelles du Langage) Title: The acquisition of generic plural nouns in Heritage Romanian in a trilingual setting Date/time: February 23, 4-6 PM Abstract This presentation investigates the use of plural nouns in the generic context among two groups of heritage…

Speakers: Kohei Haneda (International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain, University of Groningen, Macquarie University, and University of Potsdam), Anja Schüppert (University of Groningen), Roel Jonkers (University of Groningen), and Anita Szakay (Macquarie University) Title: Syntax-Vision Interface: The Impact of Visual Cues in Real-time Ellipsis Resolution Place: Trans 10, 0.19 and MS teams Date/time:…

Speakers:Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) & Isabelle Charnavel (Université de Genève) Title: ϕ-features and Presupposition: Sylleptic agreement in English and French Place: Zoom Date/time: 10 February 14:00-15:00 How to join: email the organizers for the link