the next edition of DETEC (Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Perspectives), a conference series dedicated to the study of expectation-driven discourse processing. Following successful previous instalments in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019, DETEC 2026 aims to bring the community back together to take stock of recent developments and explore new directions in the study of discourse expectations.  …

LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 2) will take place in Amsterdam on 15–16 October 2026. The program of LiCLA 2 is now available online: https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/licla-2/program/ Registration will be opened in September. All invited!

Going Romance 40 will take place at Utrecht University on 11-13 November. All invited! You can find all information here

On the 25th of September, we will host a workshop in honor of Rick Nouwen, on the occasion of his departure from Utrecht University, to thank him for his great contribution to UU Linguistics. PROGRAM 14.15-14.30 Opening 14.30-15.05 Lisa Bylinina: Augustinian BabyLM 15.05-15.40 Albert Gatt: Evaluating LLMs with LLMs: Whose judgements do we capture? 15.40-15.50…

Speaker: Chris Collins (NYU) Title: Morphology as Syntax Date/Time: 24 August, 4:00 pm Series: Syntactic Pathways To Morphology Online Lecture Series (organised by Vitor Nóbrega of the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo) If you wish to attend, please register here

CRISSP-workshop “Displaced Dialects” Displaced Dialects (DD) November 19–20, 2026 CRISSP is proud to host the REEDS-workshop Displaced Dialects, to be held on 19–20 November 2026 in Leuven. The workshop focuses on formal, (historical) sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic approaches to heritage dialect syntax. This two‐day workshop brings together scholars from formal, (historical) sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic backgrounds to discuss…

Speaker: Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Title: Expletive complementizers and epistemicity in exclamatives and beyond Date/time: Monday, June 22, 2026, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm  Introduced by: Andrea Moro & Matteo Greco (IUSS Pavia) In this talk, Prof. Villalba will argue that the presence of expletive que/che is not a case of free optionality. Drawing on…