On Friday the 28th February at 10:00am, Joanna Wall will defend her dissertation entitled Towards a label-less grammar. The PhD defence will take place in the Senaatszaal, Academiegebouw, Domplein 29 Utrecht. In the afternoon of the 28th, there will be a short workshop to celebrate Joanna’s defence, with theoretical syntax talks and discussion related to…

Just published! The volume Heritage languages and syntactic theory, edited by Roberta D’Alessandro, Michael T Putnam and Silvia Terenghi, OUP 2025, is now available in full Open Access at this url. Enjoy the read!  

The final workshop of the MIMA! project on Manner Adverbials is going to take place on 6-7 March in Utrecht. The aim of this workshop is two-fold: (i) to celebrate the culmination of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University and share its results, and (ii) to bring together (junior and senior) researchers to…

Lecturer: Neil Myler (Boston University) Title: Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be) Date & time: Thursday 20 February 2025, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom

Speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS Berlin) Title: Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation Date/Time: 20th of February, 15:15-17:00 Location: Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, room 0.20 Leiden Abstract In this talk, I will discuss two issues within syntactic approaches to nominalization, focusing on Grimshaw’s (1990) complex event nominals (CENs), that are currently controversially…

The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes will be hosted at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on the 28th and 29th of March. INVITED SPEAKERS: Ruoan Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Dániel Kádár (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) The program and further info can be found here.

The 2nd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place TODAY  (7th of February) at 2:30pm.  The broad topic that we will discuss is  Variability and how to deal with it, and when do all “externalization”-related effects become structural change? Those who are already on the platform will be sent a link some days before the meeting….