Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal Title: Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity Date/Time: 25 September, 4pm Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract It is a well-observed crosslinguistic fact that markers of evidentiality overlap with other concepts of speaker and hearer knowledge, such as mirativity or epistemic modality. To illustrate, the particle kamaŋ (1) indicates that the speaker has witnessed…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Hagit Borer (Queen Mary University of London) Title: The Paradox of Hebrew Complex Prepositions: On the Interface between Morphology, Phonology, and Content Date/time: October 1st, 2025 / 4pm (CET) Place: Google Meet Registration: https://tinyurl.com/4w8vz4ua

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Lisa Travis (McGill University):   Date: Friday, 19 September 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Topic: Reflections on the Place of Head Movement in Generative Grammar (abstract)   How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information will be sent out the day…

Speaker: Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) Title: On the structure of verbalization Date/time: August 15th, 2025 / 4pm (CET) Place: Google Meet Registration: https://tinyurl.com/mv9wh82e  

The first  installment of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 1) will take place in Amsterdam on 17–18 September 2025. The program of LiCLA 1 is now online: https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/licla-1/program/ Registration will be opened in the second half of August.

Speaker: Michael T Putnam Title: Distributed Morphology in Diachrony: The trajectory of umlaut in German Date/time: 24 July, 3pm Place: Google Meet Abstract: Although the application of Distributed Morphology (DM), and related neo-constructionist, late-insertion frameworks, to bi/multilingual data has opened the door to collaborations between formal linguists and language scientists (López 2020, to appear; Lohndal…

Speaker: Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena) Title: Verb second in main and embedded clauses in Ladin Date and Time: 24th June, 2-3pm Venue: Zoom If you wish to participate please contact the RoLinC organizers here