On 1 February, Alberto Frasson will give a Syntax Interface Lecture with a talk entitled The role of interfaces in the antecedent selection of subject clitics. The talk will take place at 4pm on MS Teams. If you are not a UU member and wish to follow the talk, please email the organisers at syntax.interface@uu.nl…

On Thursday 3 December, Silvia Terenghi will give a talk entitled Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles: Some markedness considerations for the ARU-Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar. The seminar will take place on Zoom (Zoom ID: 928 5479 4852). If you wish to attend please email Silvia Terenghi for the passcode. Abstract Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles typically…

On November 4, Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk for the Abralin ao Vivo series. The title of the talk is Microcontact: Language Change in Contact from a Microvariational Perspective. More info and abstract can be found here.

The Time in Translation group is hosting a workshop with the title Conditionals, Corpora, and Translation on the 30th of October. The workshop will address some methodological extensions of Translation Mining, a methodology that was developed in the Time in Translation project to study cross-linguistic variation in the domain of tense. Translation Mining uses parallel corpora (corpora…

The Heritage Language Syntax workshop starts today! All the talks will be held *offline*. You can find pre-recorded videos on the OSF conference page here. You can leave your comments/questions on each of the talk pages so that the speakers can reply to you. On Friday at 3PM there will be the only online event…

Eric Reuland will give a talk on Exploring Anaphoric Dependencies for the Linguistics Seminar at CUHK, on October 13 at 10:30 am (Utrecht Time) 4:30 pm (Hong Kong Time). Attendance is free but registration to participate in the zoom meeting is required. You can register at this link .

Syntax Interface Lectures, new season The Syntax Interface Lectures are resuming their meetings for this autumn. The first meeting of the new season will take place today, October 5th, on a dedicated MS Teams group (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a1467f4d244484fe09c1c318fb591c71d%40thread.tacv2/General?groupId=765ad275-d5ac-41e2-a99b-d24f72e229c7&tenantId=d72758a0-a446-4e0f-a0aa-4bf95a4a10e7) Silvia Terenghi will give a talk on Asymmetries in person indexicals. The next meetings will take place on the…