Speaker:  Caterina Donati Title: Is there parsing evidence for Merge over Move? Two experiments on French and Hebrew (Joint work with Francesca Foppolo, Carlo Cecchetto, Lion Oks) Date: 24 October Place: Drift 23, room 0.13 / MS Teams Time: 4-5pm Abstract:  Much work stemming from the classical garden-path model of parsing has focused either on how…

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…