The next meeting of the reading group on Presuppositions will take place on March 11 at 15.15. During the meeting, Lisa Bylinina will present two classical papers on presupposition by Irene Heim: Heim, Irene. 1983. On the projection problem for presuppositions (http://newstar.rinet.ru/~goga/biblio/essential-readings/10-Heim-On.the.Projection.Problem.for.Presuppositions.djvu)   Heim, Irene. 1990. Presupposition Projection (https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/GFiMGNjN/Presupp%20projection%2090.pdf) You are all welcome!

The first UiL-OTS INTERFRAMEWORK COLLOQUIUM will take place on February 28. It will be on AGREEMENT. This colloquium brings together scholars working within different frameworks to discuss a specific topic . The aim is to start an interaction between frameworks, to gain from each other’s insights and to identify where the approaches complement each other…

Have you ever wondered what presuppositions in linguistics are about? Now there is a chance to study the topic in a group of other interested researchers at the UiL OTS. The idea is to have an informal forum where interested UiL OTSers could carry out a free discussion on topics that are relevant to all…

The next Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, co-organised by AVT, LOT and Anéla, will be held on Saturday 2 February 2019. The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day combines the AVT TIN-dag (Linguistics-in-the-Netherlands day) and the Anéla TTiN-dag (Applied-Linguistics-in-the-Netherlands day). The Grote Taaldag will take place in Utrecht, at Drift 21 and 25. The Grote Taaldag also hosts…

The UiL-OTS LSD, with the title Quo vadis, linguistics? will take place on January 31 at 12. This is the program: ‘Quo vadis linguistics?’   12.00         Welcome and Lunch 12:30                 Posters, demo’s and clinics: Topics include: artificial grammar learning in animals; linguistic corpus annotation; developmental language disorder in bilingual children; diagnosing psychiatric disorders through language analysis;…

The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture is going to take place on Thursday (June 6th). Laura Migliori (Leiden University) will give a talk entitled “Romance Purpose Prepositional Infinitives (PPIs). A comparative and diachronic study”. The lecture will take place from 16.00 until 17.00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A.W. de Grootkamer). All relevant information about the…

The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture is going to take place next Tuesday (May 21st). Ans van Kemenade (Radboud Universiteit) will give a talk entitled “Discourse particle then in English: clause structure and discourse organisation“. The lecture will take place from 16.00 until 17.00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A.W. de Grootkamer). All relevant information about…