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

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…

  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…

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

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…

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…

Big news for Romance linguistics in the Netherlands! Utrecht University will host Going Romance 32, in December 2018. Together with GoRo32, two workshops will be also organized: one on language variation in contact (Microcontact project) and one on the semantics of perfect (Time in Translation project). Going Romance is the European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of…