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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Antonio Fábregas
Syntactic Pathways To Morphology Online Lecture Series | Prof. Antonio Fábregas, April 22nd 2025 Syntactic Pathways to Morphology (SPTM) is a monthly online lecture series hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo, bringing together researchers working on the morphology-syntax interface, with a particular focus on syntactic approaches to morphology. Conceived…
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WILA 16 – announcement and CFP
The 16th annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will be held at the University of Stavanger, October 2–4, 2025. Abstract submission is between March 1, 2025 and June 15, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted here. More information can be found here
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PhD defence and workshop in honor of Joanna Wall
On Friday the 28th February at 10:00am, Joanna Wall will defend her dissertation entitled Towards a label-less grammar. The PhD defence will take place in the Senaatszaal, Academiegebouw, Domplein 29 Utrecht. In the afternoon of the 28th, there will be a short workshop to celebrate Joanna’s defence, with theoretical syntax talks and discussion related to…
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Heritage languages and syntactic theory has just been published
Just published! The volume Heritage languages and syntactic theory, edited by Roberta D’Alessandro, Michael T Putnam and Silvia Terenghi, OUP 2025, is now available in full Open Access at this url. Enjoy the read!
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MIMA! workshop on The Grammar of Manner Adverbials
The final workshop of the MIMA! project on Manner Adverbials is going to take place on 6-7 March in Utrecht. The aim of this workshop is two-fold: (i) to celebrate the culmination of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University and share its results, and (ii) to bring together (junior and senior) researchers to…
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CRISSP TCC Seminar series: Neil Myler
Lecturer: Neil Myler (Boston University) Title: Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be) Date & time: Thursday 20 February 2025, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom
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LUCL colloquium: Artemis Alexiadou
Speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS Berlin) Title: Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation Date/Time: 20th of February, 15:15-17:00 Location: Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, room 0.20 Leiden Abstract In this talk, I will discuss two issues within syntactic approaches to nominalization, focusing on Grimshaw’s (1990) complex event nominals (CENs), that are currently controversially…
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