Speaker: Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) Title: Variation, optionality, and bilectalism in Italo-Romance Date/Time: 16 June, 2-3pm Link: please contact the organizers

Speaker: Paulo Ângelo Araújo-Adriano (FFLCH/USP) Title: On Variation in Phasehood: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese and English Date/time: 19 May, 2-3pm Link: Please contact the organizers

The 5th Heritage Language Syntax Brainstorming meeting will take place on the 18th of May, 4-5:30 pm CEST. This will be a special edition of our HLS brainstorming meetings, as it will feature a round table of “keynote” speakers discussing: Who can be categorized as a heritage speaker? Do we need a separate label for HS…

Speaker: Nerea Madariaga (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Title: Exploring the relation between person features and null subjects in generative typology Time: 4.30-6.30pm Place: English Faculty, G-R05 and online (here) Abstract: This study investigates the loci and ways of realization of those features linked to the pro-drop phenomenon, that is, the ability of languages to…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Xuhui Hu (Peking University), joint work with Danfeng Wu (University of Geneva) Title: ‘Polar Question Particles: Cross-linguistic Variation and Formal Explanation’ Date/time: May 8, 2026 / 2pm (CET) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/aodbKGniTjHjnjZF7.

Speaker: Hilda Koopman (UCLA) Title: On Head Movement and Phrasal Movement Date/Time: 15 April, 6pm Please register to receive a Zoom link the day before the talk

Speaker: Madhusmitha Venkatesan (IIT Delhi) Title: Exploring Stability and Change in Heritage Grammars: Derived Adjectives in Heritage Tamil Time/Venue: 27 March, 4pm (CET), Ms Teams (if you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Team, please contact the organizers for the link) Abstract Heritage grammars tend to undergo change owing to their constrained…