Syntax Lab: TODAY Speakers: Kari Kinn (Bergen) & Mike Putnam (Penn State) Title: Free and light-headed relative clauses in North American Norwegian Time: 5-7 pm Place: English Faculty, G-R05 Cambridge, UK and here (hybrid)

Tomorrow ​(25th November)! at 2-3pm, Alberto Frasson (University of Wroclaw) will be giving a talk entitled, The diachrony of progressives in Venetan: a syntactic analysis Abstract: This talk investigates the historical development of the progressive construction in Venetan, focusing on the syntax and grammaticalization of the prepositional construction drio (“behind”) + infinitive. The study traces the evolution of this construction…

Chomsky’s Minimalist Program turns 30 this year! Here, some key figures in the development of this research framework share their reflections. You can watch Željko Bošković, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, and Juan Uriagereka, moderated by Cilene Rodrigues and Marcelo Sibaldo, at this link.  

Speaker: Tamara Dobler (VU Amsterdam) Date and time: Thursday November 20 from 15:30-17:00 Location: Janskerkhof 13, room 0.06 Title: Polysemy and the semantics-pragmatics distinction Abstract: Polysemy has long been at the centre of debates about the interface between lexical semantics and pragmatics. A persistent question is whether the multiple aspects of meaning associated with words…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Jim Wood (Yale University) Title: Noun-Adjective Compounds in English and Icelandic Date/time: November 25, 2025 / 5pm (CET) Place: Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/3iodZw9ZWcwEAB3m7.

Speaker: Emanuela Pinna (UPF Barcelona) Title: Past Participle Agreement in Romance: Between Syntax and Morpho-Phonology Date: 19 November 2025 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06 / MS Teams Abstract:Past Participle Agreement (PPA) in the Romance Perfect has been widely studied since G&B (Kayne 1989; Belletti 2011 ao), but it has also received renewed attention in…

Speaker: Michelle Suijkerbuijk (CLS, Radboud University Nijmegen) Title: The success of Neural Language Models on syntactic island effects is not universal: strong wh-island sensitivity in English but not in Dutch Date: 24 November 2025 Time: 11:15 – 12:15 Location: Trans 10, room 0.19 /MS Teams Abstract A much-debated question in linguistics is whether learning language requires a language-specific…