Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS) will give a talk for the SIL on the 7th of December. Title: t.b.a. Venue: Teams meeting (if you wish to attend and you’re not an UU member please send an email to syntax.interface@uu.nl)

On November 2, Marloes Oomen (UvA) will give a talk for the Syntax Interface Lecture series. Title: t.b.a. Venue: Teams meeting (if you wish to join the meeting please send an email to syntax.interface@uu.nl)

On 5 October, Silvia Terenghi will open the Syntax Interface Lecture cycle for 2020-2021 with a talk entitled Asymmetries in person indexicals. 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 and you will be added…

On the 16th of October, an online round table will take place as a “closing ceremony” for the Heritage Language Syntax 1 workshop. The HLS invited speakers will discuss issues regarding heritage language syntax, based on the talks of the HLS1. Participants: Werner Abraham (University of Vienna)  Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and…

On November 19 there will be a special session of the UiL-OTS colloquium entitled Data collection outside the lab. Host: René Kager Speakers: Alberto Frasson, Bregje Holleman, Paola Monachesi, Jacomine Nortier, and Olupemi Oludare

On January 21, David Adger (QMUL) will give a talk for the UiL-OTS Colloquium series. title and venue: t.b.a.

On September 17, Denis Paperno will give a talk at the UiL-OTS Colloquium series on Learning compositional semantics with artificial neural network models. Abstract Humans can interpret complex utterances they never heard before, like “Call the brother of the president of France”. This becomes possible because natural language is characterized by recursive hierarchical syntactic structures,…