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Workshop on Heritage Language Development

The Workshop on Heritage Language Development will take place on November 10–12, 2025, at Bar-Ilan University and will also be streamed live via Zoom. Here is the link to the program. This three-day workshop brings together leading scholars to explore bilingualism, grammatical structure, language change, and identity in heritage speakers. Keynote speakers: ·  Maria Polinsky – University of Maryland, USA…

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ComSyn: Isabelle Charnavel

Speaker: Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) Title: Sloppy indexicals are not fake When: Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:15 – 17:30 Zoom: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63083409585?pwd=Oz5a0k884QOhRMxcgeEfDq8JWUvXPP.1 / Meeting ID: 630 8340 9585 / Passcode: S@&1f0vQ Indexical binding in constructions illustrated in (1)-(2) is one of the crucial empirical arguments questioning the Kaplanian hypothesis that indexicals rigidly depend on context. (1) Only I did my…

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Heritage Language Syntax 6

Heritage Language Syntax 6 (HLS6) will take place at Bogazici University in Istanbul on 6-7 November. The program can be found here. HLS6 will be streamed. Please contact the organizers if you wish to attend online

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RoLinC: Laura Stigliano

Speaker: Laura Stigliano (Ohio State University) Title: ​The landscape of verbal ellipsis in Galician (joint work with María Morado Vázquez) Date/Time: 28/10/2025 2pm Abstract: This talk discusses the landscape of verbal ellipsis in Galician, focusing on Aux-Stranding VP-Ellipsis (1B), Verb-Echo Answers (2B), and Modal Ellipsis. Galician is unique among Romance languages (along with Portuguese) in allowing the first two phenomena: (1)…

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CRISSP C&A: Giuliana Giusti

Lecturer: Giuliana Giusti Title: Feature Merger and Feature Realization. A unifying approach to nominal structure Date & time: Thursday 23 October 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET Location: Zoom

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The Syntax Circle

We are happy to announce the establishment of the Syntax Circle! The Syntax Circle brings together all (morpho)syntacticians working on formal linguistics in the Netherlands. Formal linguistics is the kind of research that is aimed specifically at contributing to knowledge about the formal, structural and conceptual properties of the faculty of language in general, as is…

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Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure

Full Title: Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure Date: 21-Nov-2025 – 23-Nov-2025 Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Meeting Email: seams2025@ucy.ac.cy Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium….

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