The first online Summer School On Iranian linguistics (SSOIL) will be held on August 5-8, 2024.  The program is below. Shahriar Hormozi is the principal organizer of this summer school. This event is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Iranian Linguistics research team at the University of Arizona. Please send your questions to…

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland) in just 2 weeks: Date: 29 June 2024, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Topic: Optionality in Generative Syntax: A Brief History and a Case Study How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new…

The next SIL lecture will be given by Lieke Hendrix (Georg-August University Göttingen). Title: Split Topicalization in Southern Dutch: accounting for Microvariation Abstract Split Topicalization (ST) as in (1) refers to the phenomenon in which one constituent seems to have been broken up into two parts: a topicalized part and a remnant. Generally, the topicalized…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Friday 7 June at 12 noon. We will read Van Hoof (1997), Left dislocation and split topics in Brabant Dutch (in the Teams folder), in preparation to the SIL talk by Lieke Hendrix (who will actually speak the day BEFORE the SRG meeting, which means…

Mena B. Lafkioui (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris & CNRS, Paris) is going to give the next talk in the Lectures on Information Structure series. The talk will be entitled Revisiting clefts and presentationals and their connection. If you wish to attend, you can join the Teams meeting Meeting ID: 342 909…

The next Syntax Interface Lecture will be given by Jairo Nunes, University of São Paulo, on the 30th of May at 4pm (CET). It will be entitled Phase Defectivity and Inherent Case in Brazilian Portuguese Abstract Brazilian Portuguese has undergone a series of apparently independent diachronic changes that set it aside within Romance. On the…

The 1st Heritage Language Syntax #HLS brainstorming meeting will take place virtually on the 20th of June. The “guiding” question will be What should always be present in a paper on heritage syntax? – so that all the people working on it from different perspectives can find the info they need. This will also be…