Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the ERC Microcontact, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be organised in Paris on October 20-21 within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator Elena Soare,…

Prudence de Pontbriand (University of Göttingen) will give a talk for the RoLinC on ‘Syntactic Optionality and null objects in Old French‘. If interested, please email the organizers

Ian Roberts (Downing College, Cambridge) and Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) will be giving a talk for the Romance Linguistics Circle with the title ‘The cross-linguistic realisation of non-active Voice: comparing Albanian with Romance‘. If interested, please send an email to the RoLinC organizers

The International workshop ‘Advancing code-switching research’ will take place on 6-7 October 2022 at the University of Vigo. It can be followed entirely online. Attendance is free but registration is compulsory. More information about the program can be found here.

The “Synners” speaker series and reading group takes place every other week on Monday afternoon at 4pm (Utrecht time) at Penn State (online), starting on 26 September. The program is as follows: Sept. 26 – Greetings / Reading & discussion of Ramchand (2022) Oct. 10 – Cora Cavirani-Pots (KU Leuven) Oct. 24 – Maria Arche (University of Greenwich)…

On the 27th of October Richard Kayne (NYU) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title and abstract: t.b.a. All welcome! If you are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers 

On the 15th of September our new director Norbert Corver will inaugurate the 22-23 UiL-OTS (Institute for Language Science) Colloquium with a talk entitled There is plenty of manner!  All invited! Abstract There is plenty of manner in human life. When we do things, we often do them in a particular way. You wake up happily,…