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New Syntax Interface season

The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting soon! This is the calendar for the fall season: October 8: Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies / University of Iceland), Violating V2 with two heads (or more): evidence from a polycephalous variety of insular Scandinavian October 17: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch…

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AThEME workshop on Heritage languages in Leiden

On Friday August 31st, there will be a mini-workshop of the AThEME-project in Leiden, with the title Perspectives on heritage languages and minority languages: Language contact, maintenance and change. The program is here: Workshop 31 August 2018 Everybody is welcome!

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Parallels between Phonology and Syntax – Meertens Instituut Amsterdam

On June 9, the Meertens Instituut will host a workshop with the title “Parallels between Phonology and Syntax”. Although syntax and phonology at first sight seem to study very similar objects – modules of human cognition involved with the form of language – the two disciplines seem to have grown apart, employing formal tools that…

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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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