Speaker: Mara Frascarelli (Roma Tre) Title: The interpretation of (c)overt Subjects in Romance Languages. An experimental comparative account Place: Trans 10, 0.19 / MS Teams Date/time: 17 March, 4-5pm Link If you’re not in the SIL MS Teams group and would like to follow the talk online please contact the organizers Abstract: The interpretation of (c)overt…

Speaker: Craig Tiersch (U Potsdam, UU) Title: Some Remarks on Head Movement Place: Kromme Nieuwegracht 80 – room 1.06 / MS Teams Date/time: 26 February 16:00-17:00 Abstract Over the last two decades there has been considerable discussion as to whether “head movement” is a part of narrow syntax or belongs partly or wholly in the phonological…

The first Syntactic Pathways to Morphology lecture of 2026, “Constructs in construction,” will be delivered by Ora Matushansky (CNRS) on March 11, at 11am (BRT)/3pm (CET). Everyone is more than welcome to join! Please register to receive the Zoom link for the lecture: https://forms.gle/UM3K3Jiepi6KRpSe7.

Speaker: Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) Title: No phases Place: Lipsius 1.29 and Zoom Date/time: 9 April 16:15-17:30 Abstract

Speaker: Benjamin Storme (LUCL) Title: “‘Au Liban’, but ‘en Iran’: external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface” Place: Lipsius 2.37 and Zoom Date/time: 12 February 16:15-17:30 Abstract In this presentation, I revisit two well-known external sandhi alternations in French prepositions—suppletive allomorphy (du Liban/d’Iran, au Liban/en Iran) and fusion-concatenation alternations (du Liban/de l’Iran, au Liban/à l’Iran)—and…

Humans are designed to detect symmetry. In fact, this notion may be defined in distinct domains: the physical world, art, mathematical structures and codes of communications. Certainly, there can be symmetries in the structure of human language in different modules of grammar, such as semantics and phonology. Can there be symmetry in syntax? By relying…

The 1st meeting of the Reading the classics reading group will take place on the 5th of February on MSTeams. We will be reading and discussing: On So-Called “Pronouns” in English, by  Paul Postal (1966). Reading the classics meets once a month, the 1st Thursday of the month, at 3pm CET, to read one of…