On 5 October, Silvia Terenghi will open the Syntax Interface Lecture cycle for 2020-2021 with a talk entitled Asymmetries in person indexicals. The talk will take place at 4pm on MS Teams. If you are not a UU member and wish to follow the talk please email the organisers at syntax.interface@uu.nl and you will be added…

On the 16th of October, an online round table will take place as a “closing ceremony” for the Heritage Language Syntax 1 workshop. The HLS invited speakers will discuss issues regarding heritage language syntax, based on the talks of the HLS1. Participants: Werner Abraham (University of Vienna)  Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and…

On November 19 there will be a special session of the UiL-OTS colloquium entitled Data collection outside the lab. Host: René Kager Speakers: Alberto Frasson, Bregje Holleman, Paola Monachesi, Jacomine Nortier, and Olupemi Oludare

On January 21, David Adger (QMUL) will give a talk for the UiL-OTS Colloquium series. title and venue: t.b.a.

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,…

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.

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….