The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Friday, October 18th, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 14:00. We will discuss Gallego (2018). Projection without agreement. The Linguistic Review 35(4): 601–623. The paper is available at this link: https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/tlir.2018.35.issue-4/tlr-2018-2002/tlr-2018-2002.pdf.

András Bárány (Leiden University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on 12 December at 16:00. Title: Universals and typological gaps in subject and object agreement The talk will be streamed on the StreamGram YouTube channel at this url Abstract Like (in)transitive constructions, ditransitive constructions can be characterised in terms of their case-marking and agreement alignment. In English, for…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 25th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:30 (bring your lunch!). We will discuss Bobaljik (2008). Where’s Phi? Agreement as a Post-Syntactic Operation. In Harbour et al. (eds), Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules, pp. 295-328. Oxford: OUP. The paper is available at…

 On 9 October,  David Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, EHESS, PSL, CNRS) will give a ROCKY talk with the title Mereological choices for count nouns and mass nouns. Abstract: Many semantic theories about count nouns and mass nouns use mereological notions like part and sum. At the lexical level, count nouns are often deemed to…

 On 12 September, Brechje van Osch (Utrecht University) will give a syntax Interface Lecture with the title Interface vulnerability in heritage Spanish Abstract: This talk will be about interface phenomena in Spanish as a heritage language. The Interface Hypothesis (e.g. Sorace, 2000) predicts phenomena located at the interfaces between syntax and other domains to be…

On 10 October, Marijke De Belder (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title: Category-specific syllable structures In this talk I present an experiment that shows that speakers of Dutch have intuitions on the category of a pseudoword. They ‘feel’ that the pseudoword ‘pardijf’ is fine as a noun -but not as…

On 14 November, Jos Tellings (UU) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title: Bare superlatives and relative clauses in Dutch