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SIL lecture: Fenna Bergsma

Speaker: Fenna Bergsma (Fryske Akademy) Title: Different infinitives in Frisian Place: Utrecht, Muntstraat 2A, room 1.11/MS Teams Date and time: 24 April, 16:00 Abstract Frisian has two morphologically distinct infinitives: one ending in -e (pronounced as [ə]) and one ending in -en (pronounced as [n]). It has been argued (cf. Visser 1989, Hoekstra 1997, Bergstra 2020) that they follow…

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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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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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