Theresa Biberauer, from the University of Cambridge and the Stellenbosch University, will inaugurate the second season of the Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures with a crash course on Three factors, variation, contact on October 16-18, 2018. Dates, times and locations: Tuesday, October 16, 11:00-13:00; Drift 23, Vergaderkamer 0.12 Wednesday, October 17, 11:00-13:00; Janskerkhof 13, Stijlkamer 0.06 Thursday, October 18, 11:00-13:00; Drift 23,…

Reciprocal predicates in Italian, Dutch and Hebrew This mini-workshop will report recent findings of the ROCKY team (https://rocky.sites.uu.nl) on reciprocal predicates in three typologically different languages: Italian, Dutch and Hebrew. The two talks will discuss the semantics of reciprocal predicates and the SI construction in Italian, the reciprocal middle template in Hebrew, and the interpretation…

On December 14, the Time in Translation project will host the workshop GREAT 2018: Going Romance (Re-)Explores Aspect and Tense. The program will be announced soon. More information can be found on the TinT website.

On December 11, the ERC Microcontact group will host the workshop Romance varieties in (micro-)contact and linguistic theory. All information can be find on the Microcontact website. The program will be announced soon.

Going Romance 2018 will take place in Utrecht. The program is coming soon. You can find all info on the conference at the Going Romance website.  

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, September 27th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Lohndal (2013), Generative Grammar and Language Mixing. Theoretical Linguistics 39: 215-224. The paper is available at this link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274324203_Generative_grammar_and_language_mixing

The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting soon! This is the calendar for the fall season: October 8: Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies / University of Iceland), Violating V2 with two heads (or more): evidence from a polycephalous variety of insular Scandinavian October 17: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch…