On the 14th of December there will be a workshop on Substance-free phonology in Nice. Program 9:00 am Elan Dresher Some issues raised by Paolo Danesi’s thesis: Trade-offs between representation, computation, and transduction 9:40 Charles Reiss The unnaturalness of natural classes suggests that they come from nature not nurture 10:20 coffee break 10:40 Tobias Scheer…

The Symposium Formal Approaches to Galician and Portuguese Grammar will take place on 1-2 December (so, starting tomorrow). Keynote speakers: Mary Kato Jairo Nunes Ana Maria Martins Juan Uriagereka The full program can be found here All invited! If interested in attending please contact Sandra Quarezemin  for the link.  

Imke Kruitwagen (Utrecht) will give a talk on December 12, with the title Alternate categorization: a formal-conceptual semantics of reciprocal alternations All invited! Abstract In this talk, we present an experimental study that investigates how the different forms of a reciprocal verbs are connected to each other. Reciprocal verbs as hug, fight and collide alternate between a unary collective form…

The next SIL talk will be given by Martin Everaert on December 8, 4-5pm (on Teams). The title of the talk is Idioms in morphology: the role of the Encyclopedia in linguistic theorizing If you wish to participate but you’re not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the SIL organizers .

CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series Lecturer: Andrés Saab (IIF-SADAF-CONICET and University of Buenos Aires) Title: Lectures on non-representational grammar Date & time: November 15–17 2022, 9.00-12.00 (Tue) and 10.00-13.00 (Wed–Thu) Participation: free Location: KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Brussels Campus, Warmoesberg 26, 1000 Brussels, room A04-04 and Zoom Abstract If you wish…

On the 10th of November (4pm CET), Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (Yale University) will give a SIL talk on Icelandic V3 orders with temporal adjuncts: does prosody play a role? If you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers Abstract Despite Icelandic being a verb second language (V2)…

On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 10.15 Chou Mo will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled “The Compositionality of Mandarin Aspect: A Parallel Corpus Study”. We would like to invite you to attend her defence. The defence will be in English. The defence will take place fully virtually. You can attend the defence via this link:  https://video.uu.nl/lives/senate_hall_phd_defense/…