Matilde Marcolli, who visited our university in October, gave a series of five lectures at the MIT Linguistics Department on her joint work with Noam Chomsky and Bob Berwick on the mathematical structure of Syntactic Merge. The videos of all the lectures are available here The slides of all the talks are available here The…

On the 21st of December, Henriette de Swart and Bert Le Bruyn will present the results of their 5-year project Time in Translation ———————– Abstract In this talk, we report results from the Time in Translation project (https://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl/) carried out at Utrecht University between 2017 and 2022. Reference to time and events is part of human…

Priming scalar alternatives: The effects of negation and antonymy

Going Romance 37 is going to take place in Nijmegen on 30 November-1 December. The program and all info can be found here. Please don’t forget to register, if you wish to attend! You can find the registration form here. The conference will not be streamed.

Our next SRG, on December 1st, is approaching. We will read chapters 5 and 6 of this very recent book (it appeared 5 days ago): Chomsky et al, Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis. The book is available for free download until 4 December from the CUP site:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/merge-and-the-strong-minimalist-thesis/F44DB97F68BB3A5CDB58A4684A3E5E6B Please use the link below to…