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The Syntax Circle

We are happy to announce the establishment of the Syntax Circle! The Syntax Circle brings together all (morpho)syntacticians working on formal linguistics in the Netherlands. Formal linguistics is the kind of research that is aimed specifically at contributing to knowledge about the formal, structural and conceptual properties of the faculty of language in general, as is…

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Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure

Full Title: Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure Date: 21-Nov-2025 – 23-Nov-2025 Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Meeting Email: seams2025@ucy.ac.cy Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium….

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RoLinC: Mazzola, Sheehan, Raffy & Garside

Speakers: Giulia Mazzola, Michelle Sheehan, Clementine Raffy, and Liam Garside (Newcastle University) Title: The syntax and semantics of visual and auditory perception in Romance languages Date/time: 14th October, 2-3 pm Abstract Abstract: Wurmbrand and Lohninger (2023), building on Givón (2001),propose a principle of Minimally Required Domains, whereby in order for a syntactic structure to map to a given semantic object, it must be of…

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Argument structure in minimalism. Workshop in honor of Marjolein Talsma

Workshop Argument structure in minimalism, in honor of Marjolein Talsma on the day of her defense Date: October 30, 2025, University of Groningen Program 14:00-17:00 room 1312.0018 14:00 Marjolein Talsma (University of Groningen) The automatic linking of arguments and theta-roles in nonfinite contexts 14:30 Nobert Corver (Utrecht University) On R-adjectives and unification 15:00 Angeliek van…

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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Neil Myler

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Neil Myler (Boston University) Title: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation Date/time: October 24, 2025 / 3pm (CET) Place: Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/8Ldi14vpZWzEvBKj8

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CRISSP Concord&Agreement: Teresa Espinal

The CRISSP C&A Seminar Series is a series of one-hour online talks around a central topic. The next talk in the series is by Teresa Espinal, on 2 October 2025 at 15.00–16.30 CET on Zoom (title & abstract will follow). The full speaker line-up can be consulted on the C&A homepage.

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