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…

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)  

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

Speaker: Rishabh Suresh (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) Title: No index, no pro-blem Date: 2 June 2026 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: MS Teams/Utrecht, Trans 10, room 0.19 AbstractIt has long been proposed that languages with null pronominal arguments may be partitioned roughly in terms of how freely they allow pronouns to be covert, with ‘consistent’ languages allowing any and only…

Speakers: Natalia Jardón & Teresa Espinal ((Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Title: A second person clitic without an addressee: Galician che as the expression of the judge Date/time: 23 June, 2-3pm Link: please contact the organizers

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