The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, November 6th, from 16:00 until 17:00 in our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Joanna Wall (Saarland University) with the title ‘Plurality in the Label-Less Grammar Model’. Plurality in the Label-Less Grammar Model In generative syntax, a core role…

TODAY! (4 November) Speaker: Oddur Snorrason (QMUL) and Squid Tamar-Mattis (Yale) Title: Germanic pseudo-coordination and bare verb constructions as distinctness repairs Time: 4-6pm Place: English Faculty, G-R05 and here (hybrid)

The Workshop on Heritage Language Development will take place on November 10–12, 2025, at Bar-Ilan University and will also be streamed live via Zoom. Here is the link to the program. This three-day workshop brings together leading scholars to explore bilingualism, grammatical structure, language change, and identity in heritage speakers. Keynote speakers: ·  Maria Polinsky – University of Maryland, USA…

Speaker: Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) Title: Sloppy indexicals are not fake When: Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:15 – 17:30 Zoom: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63083409585?pwd=Oz5a0k884QOhRMxcgeEfDq8JWUvXPP.1 / Meeting ID: 630 8340 9585 / Passcode: S@&1f0vQ Indexical binding in constructions illustrated in (1)-(2) is one of the crucial empirical arguments questioning the Kaplanian hypothesis that indexicals rigidly depend on context. (1) Only I did my…

Heritage Language Syntax 6 (HLS6) will take place at Bogazici University in Istanbul on 6-7 November. The program can be found here. HLS6 will be streamed. Please contact the organizers if you wish to attend online

Speaker: Laura Stigliano (Ohio State University) Title: ​The landscape of verbal ellipsis in Galician (joint work with María Morado Vázquez) Date/Time: 28/10/2025 2pm Abstract: This talk discusses the landscape of verbal ellipsis in Galician, focusing on Aux-Stranding VP-Ellipsis (1B), Verb-Echo Answers (2B), and Modal Ellipsis. Galician is unique among Romance languages (along with Portuguese) in allowing the first two phenomena: (1)…

Lecturer: Giuliana Giusti Title: Feature Merger and Feature Realization. A unifying approach to nominal structure Date & time: Thursday 23 October 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET Location: Zoom