The 3rd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place on May 23 at 2:30 pm CET. The meeting will take place on Zoom as usual (link below) and will be moderated by Liliana Sánchez (UIC). The issues we will discuss are: o    HLs show very clearly that there is a continuum between processing (and frequency effects) and syntactic structural…

Gert-Jan Schoenmakers: The wonderful world of island experiments Date: Monday, 12 May 2025 Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Location: Trans 10, room 0.19 Abstract An important discussion in syntactic research revolves around the question whether the phenomena we observe are due to specific constraints on language structure or due to non-syntactic components of human cognition. A…

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​Sjef Barbiers on Monday 12 May 2025.   Lecturer:  Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) Title:  Attributing Dimensions to Noun Modification Date & time: Monday 12 May 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (in person): Meertens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, room 02.18 Location (online): Zoom​

The seventh GLOWing lecture “How syntax grows: limits of learning and learning the limits” will be given by Athulya Aravind (MIT), with Adriana Belletti (Università di Siena) as the discussant. Date: May 16, 09:00 EDT / 15:00 CEST Topic: Language Acquisition The lecture will be open for anyone! Feel free to share this with your…

ICSS 2025 will take place in Andong, South Korea, on August 11-13 2025. This conference brings together scholars investigating the cognitive, biological, and computational foundations of language within the biolinguistic framework that Noam Chomsky has pioneered. Under the theme “Towards K-Humanities: Thought, Structure, and Language Design,” we explore how language, as a thought-generating system, reflects…

EMLaR/ILS Colloquium: Sonja Kotz 17 April 2025   Date:                  17 April 2025 Time:                  15:30-17:00 (Note: there will be coffee/tea and cake before the talk, and drinks afterwards.) Location:            Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Room 0.06 Title:                   Time and rhythm matter in music and speech Speaker:            Sonja Kotz (EMLaR 2025 keynote speaker)   Abstract…

Asya Achimova: A neo-Gricean account of indirect communication Date: Monday, 14 April 2025 Time: 11:00-12:00 Location: Muntstraat 2A, room 111   More details about the talks, including abstracts, can be found on the ELITU website. If you would like to present in the ELITU series, please get in touch with one of the organizers. The…