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!

On June 21, Norbert Corver will give the last UiL-OTS Colloquium lecture for this academic year. The title of the talk is Grammar Lore. All invited!

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…

The program of the Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation is out! You can find it here. Please, remember to send an email to microcontact AT uu.nl if you are planning to attend. Thanks!

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

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…