On 7 June Karen Lahousse (KU Leuven) will give a talk for the Syntax Interface Lecture series. More info on the SIL website. All invited!

On the 3rd of May Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) will give a SIL talk. More information on the SIL website. All invited!

On the 1st of March Bernard Bardagil-Mas from the University of Ghent will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. More information will be available soon on the SIL website. All invited!

On 1 February, Alberto Frasson will give a Syntax Interface Lecture with a talk entitled The role of interfaces in the antecedent selection of subject clitics. The talk will take place at 4pm on MS Teams. If you are not a UU member and wish to follow the talk, please email the organisers at syntax.interface@uu.nl…

On Thursday 3 December, Silvia Terenghi will give a talk entitled Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles: Some markedness considerations for the ARU-Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar. The seminar will take place on Zoom (Zoom ID: 928 5479 4852). If you wish to attend please email Silvia Terenghi for the passcode. Abstract Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles typically…

On November 4, Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk for the Abralin ao Vivo series. The title of the talk is Microcontact: Language Change in Contact from a Microvariational Perspective. More info and abstract can be found here.

The Time in Translation group is hosting a workshop with the title Conditionals, Corpora, and Translation on the 30th of October. The workshop will address some methodological extensions of Translation Mining, a methodology that was developed in the Time in Translation project to study cross-linguistic variation in the domain of tense. Translation Mining uses parallel corpora (corpora…