The fifteenth installment of the BCGL (Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics) will take place in Brussels on October 6-7, 2022. Invited speakers: Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) Chris Collins (New York University) Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) Yining Nie (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) The program is available online at this link For further information, please check the…

On 23 September 2022, the TinT final project workshop will take place in Utrecht. You can find the program here. We hope to see you there, but don’t forget to register!

Isogloss has just published the 2nd “Inter-views”, i.e. a short interview to several linguists of different beliefs, on Cartography. The linguists who answered questions about syntactic cartography, its descriptive and predictive power, issues of selection and feature encoding, are Enoch Aboh, Guglielmo Cinque, Alice Corr, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Gillian Ramchand and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. A good pre-summer…

On Wednesday 15 at 10:15 Alberto Frasson will defend his dissertation with the title The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages The dissertation is part of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective You can follow the defense online at this link 

On the 9th of June, Edgar David Martínez García (University of Cyprus) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture with the title Towards a Grammar of English and Spanish Minimizers If you wish to attend and you are not enrolled in the SIL group on Teams please contact the organizers Abstract The main objective of this…

Gertjan Postma retired in December 2021. On May 20th 2022 the Meertens Instituut will organize a farewell day. For this occasion the Meertens Instituut invited a number of colleagues and friends who’ve had the pleasure to work with Gertjan Postma over the years. The symposium will be held in the Max Nettlau room at International…

CRISSP is happy to announce a new CRISSP Seminar with Elly van Gelderen on Wednesday 27 April 2022. Lecturer: Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University) Title: Labeling and determinacy: Third factors and language variation/change Date & time: Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16.30-18.00 Location:  Zoom Abstract: pdf If you wish to attend please contact Jeroen van Craenenbroeck