The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, October 25th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Gallego (2017). Remark on the EPP in Labeling Theory: Evidence from Romance. Syntax, 20(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12139 The paper is available at this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/synt.12139 

On 17 October, Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) will give a SIL talk entitled On the core significance of the periphery: an Afrikaans case study. This talk is part of the Syntax Interface Lecture Series, and will complement the UTL lecture series on Three factors, variation, contact  that Theresa will give on 16-18 October. You can…

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, October 11th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Alexiadou & Lohndal (2018), Units of Language Mixing: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Front. Psychol. 9:1719. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01719. The paper is available at this link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01719/full.

We are happy to announce that on Monday, October 22, Jos Tellings (UiL OTS, 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 a full house! Date: Monday,…

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.