On December 11, the ERC Microcontact group will host the workshop Romance varieties in (micro-)contact and linguistic theory. All information can be find on the Microcontact website. The program will be announced soon.

Going Romance 2018 will take place in Utrecht. The program is coming soon. You can find all info on the conference at the Going Romance website.  

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, September 27th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Lohndal (2013), Generative Grammar and Language Mixing. Theoretical Linguistics 39: 215-224. The paper is available at this link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274324203_Generative_grammar_and_language_mixing

The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting soon! This is the calendar for the fall season: October 8: Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies / University of Iceland), Violating V2 with two heads (or more): evidence from a polycephalous variety of insular Scandinavian October 17: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch…

On Friday August 31st, there will be a mini-workshop of the AThEME-project in Leiden, with the title Perspectives on heritage languages and minority languages: Language contact, maintenance and change. The program is here: Workshop 31 August 2018 Everybody is welcome!

On June 21, Norbert Corver will give the last UiL-OTS Colloquium lecture for this academic year. The title of the talk is Grammar Lore. All invited!

On June 9, the Meertens Instituut will host a workshop with the title “Parallels between Phonology and Syntax”. Although syntax and phonology at first sight seem to study very similar objects – modules of human cognition involved with the form of language – the two disciplines seem to have grown apart, employing formal tools that…