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UiL-OTS Colloquium: Denis Paperno

On September 17, Denis Paperno will give a talk at the UiL-OTS Colloquium series on Learning compositional semantics with artificial neural network models. Abstract Humans can interpret complex utterances they never heard before, like “Call the brother of the president of France”. This becomes possible because natural language is characterized by recursive hierarchical syntactic structures,…

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Silvia Terenghi at CamCos

Silvia Terenghi is going to give a talk on Structural differences in the syntax of person indexicals (abstract) at the Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS) 9 TOMORROW, on Friday 11 at 12:45 UK time (13:45 Utrecht time). If interested to participate please contact the conference organizers to get the Zoom url.

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HLS goes virtual!

The Heritage Language Syntax workshop will take place ONLINE on October 12-16 (DATE CHANGE!). HLS1 will take place online. The talks will be hosted on the OSF from the 12th to the 16th of October. On the 16th of October at 15:00 CEST there will be a round table with the invited speakers who will discuss issues around heritage language syntax….

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CANCELED: UTL talks: Terje Lohndal (NTNU & UiT)

Terje Lohndal (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) will give a talk with the title Verb movement in American Norwegian: V2, non-V2, and cross-linguistic influence (joint work with Björn Lundquist & Marit Westergaard). WHEN: 12 March 2020, 11:30-12:30 WHERE: Drift 23, room 0.12   *** Abstract…

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CANCELED: HLS workshop and Polinsky crash course

We regret to let you know that the upcoming HLS workshop  and the UTL Lectures/crash course on Heritage language syntax by Maria Polinsky  have been canceled for safety reasons, due to the coronavirus outbreak. The workshop is rescheduled for 24-26 August; the lectures will take place shortly before that. Save the date and stay tuned…

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