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UTL Lectures / Artemis Alexiadou’s ppts

Dear all, Artemis Alexiadou’s UTL lectures are partly based on this article: Alexiadou (2018) Language variation and change: a case study of the loss of genitive Case in (Heritage) Greek Her Syntax Interface lecture ppt is here: Utrecht_ 19.2 (Those who attended the course can drop me an email if they wish to have the class notes)….

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Syntax Reading Group

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, 1 March, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11:00. We will discuss Poletto (2009). Double auxiliaries, anteriority and terminativity.  The article is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10828-009-9024-x.pdf

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Semantic Debates

ROCKY seminar on reciprocity, collectivity and typicality  When people say that a certain debate is “semantic”, they often mean that it concerns unimportant terminological issues. In this seminar we address some semantic debates that are hopefully more substantial. Imke Kruitwagen will review a debate between Godehard Link and Remko Scha on the origins of our…

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First two volumes of Open Generative Syntax are out!

  The first two volumes of the Open Generative Syntax series, co-edited by Roberta D’Alessandro for Language Science Press, have appeared last December: – Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure (edited by Laura Bailey, Michelle Sheehan) – Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure (edited by Michelle Sheehan, Laura Bailey) The…

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UTL Lectures: ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU

We are proud to announce that Artemis Alexiadou, from the Humboldt University in Berlin, will inaugurate the Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series with a crash course on Heritage Languages and Linguistic Theory on February 19-21, 2018.   Class 1 is based on this article. This is the handout of Artemis’s talk for the Syntax Interface lecture: Utrecht_ 19.2

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New paper on the role of theoretical linguistics in linguistic inquiry

Dear all, the paper Diversity of linguistic data and the integration of the language sciences that I wrote with Marc van Oostendorp has just been published on Frontiers in Psychology. The article is in Open Access. Comments and questions very welcome! If you publish a paper or you have a draft that you would like to…

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Time in Translation – Expert Meeting 2

The second expert meeting of TinT will be on tense and aspect in second-language acquisition. The meetings will consist of two to three 40-minute talks followed by discussion. We cordially invite you to attend the second meeting on Thursday 30 November, 10.00-13.00 (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06 (Ravesteijnzaal), 3512HM Utrecht). The focus of the meeting…

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