On 10-11 July 2023, the ERC ROCKY project will hold its final workshop. Attenders who would like to join for lunch, please write Yoad Winter by 1 July. Program Monday, 10 July 2023 09:00-09:15 Reception and opening Session 1 – experimental semantics 09:15-10:00 James Hampton: Long blue coats and Large dark glasses: Conjunctions of unidimensional vague adjectives…

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this talk is CANCELED. It will be rescheduled to September. Elisabeth Kerr (Leiden University) will give a SIL talk on the 29th of June. The talk is entitled When object movement splits the noun phrase Abstract Discontinuous noun phrases are familiar from languages where a difference in information structural (IS) status…

Matilde Marcolli (Caltech) will be visiting our university on the 26th of June, and she will give a talk with the title: A mathematical model of syntactic Merge Abstract In this talk I will present a mathematical view of the Merge operation in the Minimalist Model of syntax, in the free symmetric form of Chomsky’s…

CRISSP is happy to announce a new CRISSP Seminar, with Paolo Acquaviva: Lecturer: Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin) Title: Semantic and morphosyntactic definiteness: a case study in crosslinguistic variation Date & time: Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15.30-17.00 Location:  Zoom Abstract: pdf

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​​Rob Truswell on Monday 15 May 2023.   Lecturer:  ​Rob Truswell (University of Edinburgh) ​Title: Superset grammars and failed changes Date & time: Monday 15 May 2023, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (online): Zoom​ Abstract: ​pdf  

Cora Pots-Cavirani and Mike Putnam will give a talk with the title Prefixoids ≠ Prefixes: Not all inseparable verbal compounds are (underlyingly) the same Date/time: 1 May, 16:00 (Utrecht Time) Location: Zoom pwd: please ask Mike Putnam Abstract In this presentation, we take a closer look at two subtypes of inseparable verbal compounds in Dutch:…

  The spring talk calendar for the Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC) organized by the universities of Cambridge and Newcastle is now out. All talks are open for attendance, but you’ll need to contact the organizers to get a Zoom link. The talks take place every Tuesday at 1-2 pm (Utrecht time)   25th April Alice Corr (University…