Speaker: Veronica Girolami (University of Verona) Title: Combining Unaccusativity Diagnostics in Romance: Preliminary Evidence from Italian and French Place/time: Zoom, 2-3pm More information

The workshop Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages will be held in Paris (Inalco) / Zoom on June 6 2025.  Invited speakers: Roberta D’Alessandro & Sivia Terenghi (University of Utrecht) Organizers: Elena Soare (Univ. Paris 8 & CNRS), Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS) and Larisa Avram (Univ. Bucharest) Program 9:30-9 :45 Welcome and…

Speakers: Lena Baunaz (Université Côte d’Azur) & Anne-Li Demonie (Masaryk University) Title: Is expletive negation a unitary phenomenon? A cross-linguistic investigation of fear vs until-clauses Time: 2-3pm Place: Zoom If you wish to attend this talk, please contact the organizers

REFLECTIONS Talk Series will continue with a talk by Rita Manzini (University of Florence): Date: 27 June 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) – Notice the change to Friday! Topic: Language Variation and Universals in Generative Models How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new link) will be sent out the day before the talk…

The eighth GLOWing lecture will take place on Friday, June 6 at 15:00 CEST. Sandra Villata (The Kore University Enna ) will talk about “The role of experimental syntax in linguistic theorizing”. The discussant will be Shota Momma (UMass Amherst). More information about the GLOWing lectures is available at https://glowlinguistics.org/lectures/.

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Lecture Series: Martina Wiltschko (ICREA / Pompeu Fabra University) Title: Three syntactic pathways to honorificity: Towards a typology of marking politeness Date: June 10th, 2025 Time: 4pm Syntactic Pathways to Morphology (SPTM) is a monthly online lecture series hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo, bringing…

Speakers: Cristina Flores and Esther Rinke Title: Overspecification of subjects and underspecification of objects: subject-object asymmetries in heritage Portuguese as a window into divergent diachronic pathways Time: 2-3pm Place: Zoom If you wish to attend please send a message to the organizers