The next SRG meeting will take place on Monday, April 9th, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11:00. We will continue discussing Chomsky (2008). On Phases. In Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, eds. R. Freidin, C. Peregrín Otero and M. L. Zubizarreta, 133-166. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, March 22nd, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11:00. We will discuss Chomsky (2008). On Phases. In Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, eds. R. Freidin, C. Peregrín Otero and M. L. Zubizarreta, 133-166. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

We cordially invite you to attend the third meeting on Friday 16 March, 9.30-12.00 (Drift 23, room 0.13, 3512BR Utrecht). The focus of the meeting will be on competition between past, present perfect and recent past. This is the program: 9.30 – 10.15 Olaf Hoenselaar, Helen de Hoop, Gijs Mulder, Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Radboud University Nijmegen): On…

  Dear students and colleagues, Next week, Jon Gajewski from UConn (Connecticut, USA) will visit UiL-OTS. He is an expert on negative polarity items and neg-raising. You can find more about his research on his webpage: https://jon-gajewski.uconn.edu/ He will give two crash courses and one seminar. You are all very much invited to join both the courses…

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)….

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…