Tomorrow ​(22nd October) at 12-1pm (UK time), Ștefania Costea and Oana Uță-Bărbulescu (University of Oxford) will be giving a talk entitled Notes on the Istro-Romanian nominal domain.     Abstract: Istro-Romanian, one of the four subdivisions of the Daco-Romance branch of the Romance languages, is a severely endangered language spoken in Istria, Croatia. The available grammars (e.g., Pușcariu 1926, Kovačec 1971) and studies of…

CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the CRISSP TCC Seminar Series: Lecturer: Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal) Title: English Theme Vowels are Syntactic Heads Date & time: Tuesday 22 October 2024, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom (contact us to get the link)

The 5th HLS workshop will take place in Hamburg on 8 November 2024. Unlike the previous editions, this year’s HLS will consist of a one-day Symposium on the syntax of heritage Romance languages in contact, for which the IRom is delighted to have 5 distinguished international experts in the field as guest speakers: Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton)…

The workshop aims to make theoretical advances in research on the syntax-prosody interface, that is, the point of interaction between sentence structure (syntax) and sound (phonology). We want to give the floor to various (theoretical) approaches to the syntax-prosody interface, in order to discuss different ways of modeling the relationship, the matches and mismatches between…

Speaker: Andrew Nevins Discussant: Jonathan Bobalijk Title: Minoritized languages guiding linguistic theory Date/Time: 11 October, 15:00 CEST Place: Zoom If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.

Speaker:  Caterina Donati Title: Is there parsing evidence for Merge over Move? Two experiments on French and Hebrew (Joint work with Francesca Foppolo, Carlo Cecchetto, Lion Oks) Date: 24 October Place: Drift 23, room 0.13 / MS Teams Time: 4-5pm Abstract:  Much work stemming from the classical garden-path model of parsing has focused either on how…

Speaker: Zetao Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Title: On reduced structures in Chinese: A labeling approach Date: 9 October Place: Trans 10 UU, MsTeams Abstract: There is a general debate concerning “reduced” clauses. Regarding the question-answer pair in (1), the sentential approach (Morgan 1973; Merchant 2004) would argue that the answer involves a full…