On Monday 10 December Renato Miguel Basso and Giada Palmieri will give a ROCKY lecture with the title When “se” is not needed: lexical reciprocity and reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese.  Abstract Many Romance languages use items like “se” (French) or “si” (Italian) to express reflexivity or reciprocity. Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is another Romance language where the…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, November 29th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Adger & Smith (2010). Variation in agreement: A lexical feature-based approach. Lingua 120 (5), 1109-1134. The paper is available at this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384109001107.

Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires) will give the next set of Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures. His crash course will be entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.    The course will take place on Monday 17, Tuesday 18, and Wednesday 19 at 11:00-13:00 in  Janskerkhof 13 0.06 (Stijlkamer) Attendance is free, but we…

e are happy to announce that on Friday, December 7, Renato Miguel Basso (Universidade Federal de São Carlos / Utrecht University) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. LUSH is short for Leiden-Utrecht Semantic Happenings, and these talks are aimed at everyone (so including RMA students) with a keen interest in semantics. We hope for…

On Wednesday, November 21, Miguel Santin (University of Groningen) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. LUSH is short for Leiden-Utrecht Semantic Happenings, and these talks are aimed at everyone (so including RMA students) with a keen interest in semantics. We hope for a full house! Date: Wednesday, November 21, 11:00 – 12:30 Location: Utrecht,…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, November 25th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Tortora (2014). Addressing the problem of intra-speaker variation for parametric theory. In Zanuttini & Horn (eds.), Micro-syntactic variation in North-American English, pp. 294-323. OUP.

On Monday, October 22, the MicroContact team and the Indo-Aryan Microvariation team of the Indian Institute of Technology Dehli (IITD) will present their works on linguistic microvariation. The Symposium will take place from 12:00 to 14:45 (CET). You can follow the event via Skype Meeting. You can find more information on the Microcontact website, at this page.