The new season of the Syntax Interface Lectures will start on February 5 with Jan Casalicchio. Title: t.b.a.

We are proud to announce that Artemis Alexiadou, from the Humboldt University in Berlin, will inaugurate the Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series with a crash course on Heritage Languages and Linguistic Theory on February 19-21, 2018.   Class 1 is based on this article. This is the handout of Artemis’s talk for the Syntax Interface lecture: Utrecht_ 19.2

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, 7 December, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11.00. We will discuss Pesetsky & Torrego (2004). The Syntax of Valuation and the Interpretability of Features.   

Alessandro De Angelis (University of Messina) will be visiting Utrecht University tomorrow (Friday 1 December). He will give a short talk on DOM and definite articles in Romance, with the title Articolo definito e accusativo preposizionale – una distribuzione complementare nelle lingue romanze?  The talk will take place at 11 in Trans 10, 0.51. It will be…

Dear all, the paper Diversity of linguistic data and the integration of the language sciences that I wrote with Marc van Oostendorp has just been published on Frontiers in Psychology. The article is in Open Access. Comments and questions very welcome! If you publish a paper or you have a draft that you would like to…

The second expert meeting of TinT will be on tense and aspect in second-language acquisition. The meetings will consist of two to three 40-minute talks followed by discussion. We cordially invite you to attend the second meeting on Thursday 30 November, 10.00-13.00 (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06 (Ravesteijnzaal), 3512HM Utrecht). The focus of the meeting…

Big news for Romance linguistics in the Netherlands! Utrecht University will host Going Romance 32, in December 2018. Together with GoRo32, two workshops will be also organized: one on language variation in contact (Microcontact project) and one on the semantics of perfect (Time in Translation project). Going Romance is the European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of…