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/

On 25 May, Alon Fishman from Tel Aviv University will give a talk on Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal This talk is concerned with a particular sentence-internal reading of  predicates like “different”, here called the *plural-dependent* reading. I argue for an analysis of this reading in terms of lexical reciprocity (Siloni 2012, Winter 2018). The plural-dependent reading…

On June 7-13 Utrecht University will host the Syntax and Variation Week, on the occasion of Roberta D’Alessandro and Marjo Van Koppen’s inaugural lectures. The program features two lectures and a workshop. You are all cordially invited, but please let us know if/which event you are planning to attend (see below). PROGRAM June 7, 4:15…

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 22, Nadine Theiler (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht, with the title ‘Choosing additive particles in wh-questions’. LUSH is short for Leiden-Utrecht Semantic Happenings, and these talks are aimed at everyone (so including RMA students) with a keen interest in semantics….

Next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Monday, May 7th. We will host a talk by Anna Volkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), with the title “Subject encoding in participial relative clauses”. For further information: http://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/anna-volkova-national-research-university-higher-school-of-economics-moscow/

Update: As opposed to what previously announced, the next SRG meeting will take place on Monday, May 14th, in Trans 10, 1.14, 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:…

The Workshop The peculiarities of Binding in Russian will take place in honor of Petya Zubkov, on the occasion of his doctoral degree. If you want to dive deeper into contemplating binding in Russian, we gladly invite you to the join the workshop. Please see the program below. Time Speaker Title 15.00-15.05 Eric Reuland Welcome 15.05-15.45…