Speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS Berlin) Title: Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation Date/Time: 20th of February, 15:15-17:00 Location: Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, room 0.20 Leiden Abstract In this talk, I will discuss two issues within syntactic approaches to nominalization, focusing on Grimshaw’s (1990) complex event nominals (CENs), that are currently controversially…

The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes will be hosted at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on the 28th and 29th of March. INVITED SPEAKERS: Ruoan Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Dániel Kádár (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) The program and further info can be found here.

Speakers: Irina Morozova & Sjef Barbiers (LUCL) Title: Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of Properties When: Thu 17 April, 16:15 – 17:30 Where: Lipsius 2.23 Zoom: link / Meeting ID: 633 9946 0316 / Passcode: AgNKj$2d Abstract: There are at least three ways in Dutch to say that a car is green: (1)      a.         een       groen-e            auto           a          green-com       car…

The 2nd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place TODAY  (7th of February) at 2:30pm.  The broad topic that we will discuss is  Variability and how to deal with it, and when do all “externalization”-related effects become structural change? Those who are already on the platform will be sent a link some days before the meeting….

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​David Adger on Monday 10 February 2025.   Lecturer:  David Adger (Queen Mary University of London) ​Title: Mereological Syntax and Noun Phrase Islands Date & time: Monday 10 February 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (in person): Meertens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, room…

LOCALITY ACROSS THE BOARD (Nice, 6-7 feb) Participants: Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France), Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena) & Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva), Elise Newman (MIT), Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) & Dominique Sportiche (UCLA), Hamida Demirdache (LLING, Nantes Université/CNRS) & Maia Duguine (IKER, CNRS), Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh), Vassilios Spyropoulos (University of…

CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the  CRISSP TCC Seminar Series: Lecturer: Ora Matushansky (UMR 7023 (CNRS/Université Paris VIII)) Title: Down with the themes! For a classless declension in Russian morphology Date & time: Thursday 30 January 2025, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom