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

We are happy to announce the 1st Microcontact Workshop on HERITAGE LANGUAGE SYNTAX to be held at Utrecht University on 12-13 March 2020 Invited speakers – Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) – Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University) – Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) – Jason Rothman (UiT The Arctic University…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Wednesday, June 26th in Trans 10, 0.26, at 15.30. We will discuss Reuland (2011). Syntax and Interpretation Systems: How is Their Labour Divided? In Boeckx (ed.) The Oxford handbook of linguistic minimalism. Oxford University Press. The paper is available at this link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297425818_Syntax_and_Interpretation_Systems_How_is_Their_Labour_Divided 

We are very pleased to welcome Aurelie Herbelot  from the University of Trento who is visiting UiL-OTS to give a series of 2 lectures plus a seminar, from June 3-5.   Crash course in Computational Semantics, June 3-5 Aurelie Herbelot , Univ. of Trento   * Lecture 1 – Distributional semantics as lexical representation June 3 (Mon) : 11:00-12:45 : JK…