The 4th GLOWing Lecture will take place tomorrow, on May 16, from 14:00 CET. David Adger (Queen Mary University of London) will speak about Why is syntax local where it is, and not where it isn’t. Discussant: Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal). If you don’t have the Zoom link you can follow the…

Reciprocal expressions: Lexicon, Grammar, Semantics Workshop in honor of Imke Kruitwagen and Giada Palmieri Thursday, 6 June, 9.00-13.30 Janskerkhof 2-3, room 109, Utrecht   PROGRAM 09.00-09.15     opening 09.15-10.15     Jacopo Romoli (Düsseldorf): On the source of ignorance and distributive inferences 10.15-10.45     Break 10.45-11.45     John Beavers (Austin, Texas): TBA 11.45-12.00     Break 12.00-12.40…

CRISSP is extremely pleased and proud to present the GuidoFest, a one-day workshop in honor of Guido Vanden Wyngaerd’s 60th birthday: Date: Tuesday 4 June 2024 Location: KU Leuven, Brussels campus, Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels, room 6303 Program Tuesday 4 June 2024 10.00 10.30 Arrival & coffee 10.30 11.00 CRISSP Intro 11.00 11.30 Marcel den Dikken…

LeiBieCos, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Leiden and Bielefeld, will take place at Leiden University on Thursday 23 May and Friday 24 May 2024. The program can be found here. Registration In order to attend the conference, please register using this form. The registration fee is €50, which covers coffee/tea, snacks and…

Tom Roberts (UU/ILS) and Kelsey Sasaki (University of Oxford) will be giving the next ELITU talk, with the title Oh, what predicates embed exclamatives! The talk will take place on the 13th of May at 11:00, at Janskerkhof 13, 006. Abstract The semantic status of wh-exclamative clauses (What a furry wombat that is!) is highly debated. Though they…

Roberta D’Alessandro (ILS, UU) will be giving the next Romance Linguistics Circle talk, entitled Honorificity, phi-agreement and an inside-view on pronouns and referentiality. The case of Italian voi and lei. The talk will take place on the 14th of May at 1pm. Abstract Honorifics are not as widely present in Romance languages as they are in several Asian languages….

ILS Colloquium: M.Carmen Parafita Couto 16 May 2024 Speaker:             Maria del Carmen  Parafita Couto Title: What if …? Imagining linguistic theory rooted in multilingual data   Abstract In this presentation we will explore a hypothetical scenario: What if linguistic theory had been grounded on bi-/multilingual practices and data, i.e. what if multilingualism had always…