The 5th Heritage Language Syntax Brainstorming meeting will take place on the 18th of May, 4-5:30 pm CEST. This will be a special edition of our HLS brainstorming meetings, as it will feature a round table of “keynote” speakers discussing: Who can be categorized as a heritage speaker? Do we need a separate label for HS…

Speaker: Nerea Madariaga (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Title: Exploring the relation between person features and null subjects in generative typology Time: 4.30-6.30pm Place: English Faculty, G-R05 and online (here) Abstract: This study investigates the loci and ways of realization of those features linked to the pro-drop phenomenon, that is, the ability of languages to…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Xuhui Hu (Peking University), joint work with Danfeng Wu (University of Geneva) Title: ‘Polar Question Particles: Cross-linguistic Variation and Formal Explanation’ Date/time: May 8, 2026 / 2pm (CET) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/aodbKGniTjHjnjZF7.

Speaker: Hilda Koopman (UCLA) Title: On Head Movement and Phrasal Movement Date/Time: 15 April, 6pm Please register to receive a Zoom link the day before the talk

Speaker: Madhusmitha Venkatesan (IIT Delhi) Title: Exploring Stability and Change in Heritage Grammars: Derived Adjectives in Heritage Tamil Time/Venue: 27 March, 4pm (CET), Ms Teams (if you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Team, please contact the organizers for the link) Abstract Heritage grammars tend to undergo change owing to their constrained…

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.