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…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, June 20th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Preminger (2018). Back to the Future: Non-generation, filtration, and the heartbreak of interface-driven Minimalism. In Hornstein et al. (eds) Syntactic structures after 60 years : the impact of the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics. De…

The Linguist’s Workshop: Data, Theory, Experimental Testing will take place in Donostia / San Sebastián on 8-9 July 2019. The program and all relevant information about the registration can be found on the workshop page.

On May 16th, Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University) will give a talk for the UiL-OTS Colloquium. The title of the talk is Pragmatics in grammar: the case of polarity. All the relevant information about the talk can be foundon the UiL-OTS Colloquium page.

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, May 16th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Zeijlstra (in press). Labeling, selection, and feature checking. To appear in Agreement in Minimalism. Language Science Press. The paper is available at this link: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/533bc0_924f6db3b29b4107853f902fd49d0cd9.pdf

Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals On the 7th and 8th of October, the workshop “Cross-linguistic semantics of reciprocals” will take place at Utrecht University. We are glad to announce that the final program is now available. The workshop will bring together formal semanticists and experts of reciprocity phenomena, with the goal of addressing some…

On our next meeting, Matthew Mandelkern (Oxford) and Jacopo Romoli (Ulster U.) will present their recent paper: “We’ve discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!)” – joint work with Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz, to appear in Linguistics & Philosophy. Link to paper: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfop0776/Discovered.pdf Abstract: Is the mechanism behind presupposition projection and filtering fundamentally asymmetric or symmetric?…