Ian Roberts will be giving a number of lectures at the University of Florence. The lectures will be accessible via streaming. If you’re interested, you can join through the links below 13 April, 11am, ‘The structure of the Romance Verb and the Theory of a Head-Movement’ (Webex link,  ID: 27438508050, Password: Hen2g9jnZh3) 6 May, 11:00-13…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place tomorrow, 11th April at 12 noon. We will discuss Collins & Stabler (2016), A formalization of Minimalist Syntax  All invited! If you wish to attend and do not have the link please email Roberta and she’ll send it to you.

On April 11, Terje Lohndal (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) will give an online talk with the title The many features of grammatical gender: A case study of Norwegian If interested, please contact Mike Putnam for the zoom link. Abstract Grammatical gender is a formal…

Susi Wurmbrand (Universität Wien/Harvard University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on the 7th of April. Title: t.b.a. More info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/susi-wurmbrand-universitat-wien-harvard-university/

The latest issue of Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory is now online, at this url, in full Open Access. The RLLT series was originally born as a series of Selected proceedings of Going Romance, a conference that has its headquarters at UU. More recently, the two other major conferences in Romance theoretical linguistics, the LSRL…

Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg-August-University of Göttingen) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on the 12th of May. Title and abstract: TBA. For more info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/hedde-zeijlstra-georg-august-university-of-gottingen/

On the 16th of February, Sterre Leufkens will give a talk on the use of articles vs possessive pronouns with kinship terms in Dutch, organized by the student association Babel. All invited! The talk will take place at the Drift Abstract In Dutch, kinship terms are usually preceded by a possessive pronoun (e.g. mijn vader  ‘my…