Speaker: Zetao Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Title: On reduced structures in Chinese: A labeling approach Date: 9 October Place: Trans 10 UU, MsTeams Abstract: There is a general debate concerning “reduced” clauses. Regarding the question-answer pair in (1), the sentential approach (Morgan 1973; Merchant 2004) would argue that the answer involves a full…

The next REFLECTIONS talk will be given on the 28th of September by Robert Freidin Title: Conceptual Shifts in the Science of Grammar from Syntactic Structures to the Strong Minimalist Thesis Abstract If you wish to attend please register here

Speaker:Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota) Title: What information do verb roots encode?: the view from morpho-semantics Date and time: 23 September, 4pm (CET) Abstract: Through the lens of the reversative affix un- and the restitutive affix re-, I explore verb roots and make a new proposal about the lexical semantics of verbs. I argue that these affixes tell a…

Speaker: Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University) Title: An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies Time: 19 September, 16:15-17:30 Place: Lipsius 0.01, Leiden University and Zoom Abstract: Explanations for linguistic phenomena are often sought either in the syntax or in non-syntactic components of human cognition, e.g. through demands of discourse processing. The unacceptability…

The Van Riemsdijk Foundation is happy to announce that it has opened a new call for submissions for 2024. In the past two years, VRF has funded 12 workshops and 7 summer schools—see our website for details—and we are continuing with the same two funding schemes this year: one for workshops and one for summer schools. Please…

The reading group on Algonquian morpho-phonology will meet once a month (first Thursday of each month) to discuss a paper or book chapter(s). First meeting: October 3rd Time: 14:30 ET (New Haven), 16:00 (Newfoundland), 11:30 (Vancouver), 19:30 (London), 20:30 (Paris) Topic: Menominee vowel harmony revisited: A height-based underspecification account Author: Will Oxford Paper: https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~oxfordwr/papers/Oxford-TWPL-Menominee.pdf Zoom…

Speaker: Andrea Sims (Ohio State) Title: Modeling trees, theorizing forests: From local to system-level morphological organization Date and time: 18 November, 4pm (CET) Place: Zoom Abstract Morphological typologists theorize about the nature of language by comparing properties of languages and building explanatory models of identified patterns. Broadly speaking, explanation comes from the interaction of two types…