Dear all, Artemis Alexiadou’s UTL lectures are partly based on this article: Alexiadou (2018) Language variation and change: a case study of the loss of genitive Case in (Heritage) Greek Her Syntax Interface lecture ppt is here: Utrecht_ 19.2 (Those who attended the course can drop me an email if they wish to have the class notes)….

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, 1 March, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11:00. We will discuss Poletto (2009). Double auxiliaries, anteriority and terminativity.  The article is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10828-009-9024-x.pdf

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, 15 February, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11.30. We will discuss Alexiadou & Carvalho (2017). The role of locatives in (partial) pro-drop languages. The article is available at this link: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/115

ROCKY seminar on reciprocity, collectivity and typicality  When people say that a certain debate is “semantic”, they often mean that it concerns unimportant terminological issues. In this seminar we address some semantic debates that are hopefully more substantial. Imke Kruitwagen will review a debate between Godehard Link and Remko Scha on the origins of our…

  The first two volumes of the Open Generative Syntax series, co-edited by Roberta D’Alessandro for Language Science Press, have appeared last December: – Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure (edited by Laura Bailey, Michelle Sheehan) – Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure (edited by Michelle Sheehan, Laura Bailey) The…

We are happy to announce that on Thursday, February 8th, Lelia Glass (Stanford University) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. LUSH is short for Leiden-Utrecht Semantic Happenings, and these talks are aimed at everyone (so including RMA students) with a keen interest in semantics. We hope for a full house! Date: Thursday, February 8th,…

Artemis Alexiadou will also give a Syntax Interface Lecture, on February 19, 2018. Title: TBA.