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CRISSP C&A seminar: Sonia Cyrino
Lecturer: Sonia Cyrino (State University of Campinas) Title: On 3rd person singular null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: the role of (non)-agreement Date & time: Friday 12 June 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom
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REFLECTIONS: Mamoru Saito
Speaker: Mamoru Saito (Notre Dame Seishin University and University of Connecticut) Topic: Move-α, Free Merge, and Scrambling (abstract) Date: Friday, 3 July 2026, 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC) – note the earlier time than usual! How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information will be sent out the day before the talk to those registered on the REFLECTIONS website. Registration is free to…
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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Éva Dékány
Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Éva Dékány (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Eötvös University) Title: ‘Numeral Classifiers: Lessons from Languages of the Americas’ Date/time: June 19th, 2026 / 3pm (CEST) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/Bv4PKoKihm4GkY2x9.
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CRISSP C&A Seminar: Emily Clem
Speaker: Emily Clem (UC San Diego) Title: Shared hierarchy effects in agreement and case Date & time: Friday 5 June 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom
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CSSN talk: Idan Caspi
Idan Caspi will give a talk entitled “Hebrew N+N Toponyms and Animacy” at the Canadian Society for the Study of Names Annual Meeting on 8 June at 4pm. Abstract I argue that many Hebrew toponyms are structurally decomposable, patterning with independently attested grammatical constructions and correlating with animacy. Specifically, Hebrew toponyms often occur as N1+N2…
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CRISSP C&A seminar: Anna Cardinaletti
CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the CRISSP C&A Seminar Series: Lecturer: Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Title: Concord, Compensatory Concord, and optional feature realization in Italian and Central Italo-Romance varieties Date & time: Friday 22 May 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom (contact us to get the link)
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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Laura Kalin
Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Laura Kalin (Princeton University) Title: Decomposing Vowel Melodies: The Morphology and Syntax of Root-and-Pattern Systems Date/time: May 29th, 2026 / 3:30pm (CET) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/c8uPu2p9SnCvozxcA
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