Speaker: Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France) Title: Co-occurrence and ordering constraints on topics and foci in Romance and beyond Time/place: 2-3pm, Zoom Abstract One of the significant empirical contributions of the cartographic program has been the discovery of cross-linguistically stable ordering and co-occurrence constraints in functional structures (Cinque 1999 on the structure of IP, Rizzi…

Morphology as Syntax 4  When: Friday, April 17, 2026 Keynote speakers: Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani Christina Tortora Location: Queens College, City University of New York  Queens Hall 250, 65-21 Main Street Flushing, NY 11367 https://www.qc.cuny.edu/home1/ Attendance online is free but you’ll need to register. Please register here.

Speakers: Marijana Marelj (UU) and Ora Matushansky (CNRS/UU) Title: Slavic deajectival uncausatives and decausatives Time/place: 30 April, Trans 10 – room 0.19 / MS Team Link: if you’re not in the SIL teams, please contact the organizers Abstract  Deadjectival degree achievements in Slavic come in two varieties, distinguished both by their thematic suffix (-e– vs. –i-)…

On 16 and 18 March Mara Frascarelli (University of Roma Tre) will give a crash course entitled Superiority in Fronting: A syntax-semantics interface approach to optionality. The course is open to everyone. Timetable Monday 16, 11:00-13:00, KNG 80, 1.06 Wednesday 18, 11:00-13:00, Trans 10, 0.19 (room change!) If you wish to join it online you…

The next meeting of the Reading the classics reading group will take place on the 5th of March on MSTeams. We will be reading and discussing: Chapter 2 of Kayne, Zanuttini & Leu: Joan W. Bresnan, On Complementizers: Toward a Syntactic Theory of Complement Types. In Foundations of Language 6 (1970): 297–321. Reading the classics meets once a month, the 1st…

Speaker: Pierre Larrivée (Université de Caen Normandie) Title: Subject inversion in the history of Gascon Date/Time: 3 March, 2-3pm Location: Zoom (Please register here  for the link) Abstract Gascon is a distinct variety in the Occitan continuum which has largely been understudied, especially where its syntax is concerned (an opinion shared by Sibille and Bach 2024)….

Luana Sorgini will defend her dissertation on Differential Object Marking in Heritage Italo-Romance: A Microcontact Perspective on Friday 27 at 14:15. The defense can be followed online at this link This is the last PhD of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective.