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Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation
The program of the Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation is out! You can find it here. Please, remember to send an email to microcontact AT uu.nl if you are planning to attend. Thanks!
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Syntax Reading Group
The next SRG meeting will take place on Monday, June 11th, in Trans 10, 1.14, at 11:00. We will discuss D’Alessandro & Scheer (2015). Modular PIC. Linguistic Inquiry, 46, 593–624 A draft of the article is available at this link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001993
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Syntax Interface Lecture by Marika Lekakou on May 22nd
Next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 22nd. We will host a talk by Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina), with the title “Unifying personal and impersonal middles“. For further information: http://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/marika-lekakou-university-of-ioannina/
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Talk by Alon Fishman: Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal
On 25 May, Alon Fishman from Tel Aviv University will give a talk on Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal This talk is concerned with a particular sentence-internal reading of predicates like “different”, here called the *plural-dependent* reading. I argue for an analysis of this reading in terms of lexical reciprocity (Siloni 2012, Winter 2018). The plural-dependent reading…
Read moreSyntax and Language Variation Week
On June 7-13 Utrecht University will host the Syntax and Variation Week, on the occasion of Roberta D’Alessandro and Marjo Van Koppen’s inaugural lectures. The program features two lectures and a workshop. You are all cordially invited, but please let us know if/which event you are planning to attend (see below). PROGRAM June 7, 4:15…
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LUSH talk: Nadine Theiler
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 22, Nadine Theiler (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht, with the title ‘Choosing additive particles in wh-questions’. 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….
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Syntax Interface Lecture by Anna Volkova on May 7th
Next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Monday, May 7th. We will host a talk by Anna Volkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), with the title “Subject encoding in participial relative clauses”. For further information: http://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/anna-volkova-national-research-university-higher-school-of-economics-moscow/
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