The next SRG meeting will take place on November 23 at 11, in Trans 10, 0.26. We will discuss Biberauer, T. & I. Roberts. 2015. Rethinking Formal Hierarchies: A Proposed Unification. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 7:1-31 Please, note that the day has changed from Monday to Thursday. This change of weekday will be most likely definitive, to allow…

The next meeting of the Syntax Reading Group will take place on November 13. We will discuss Yang, Crain, Berwick, Chomsky, Bolhuis (2017), The growth of Language: UG, experience and principles of computation. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.023. See you in Trans 10, 0.51 at 12.30. Bring your own lunch!

Program change! The third meeting of the Syntax Reading group will take place on October 30, between 12:30 and 14:00 in Trans 10. We will read Everaert, Huybregts, Chomsky, Berwick, Bolhuis (2015), Structures, Not Strings: Linguistics as Part of the Cognitive Sciences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 19: 729-743.  

The Time in Translation-project will organize several small-scale expert meetings during the project. The meetings will consist of two half-hour talks followed by discussion. We cordially invite you to attend the first meeting on Tuesday 7 November, 10.30-12.00 (Drift 23, room 0.12, 3512BR Utrecht). The focus of the meeting will be on aspect from a multilingual…

Hedde Zeijlstra, from the University of Göttingen, will give a talk for the Syntax Interface Lecture series on October 23. Check the SYL page for more info.

The next UiL OTS meeting will feature Yoad Winter, Frank Wijnen and Michael Moortgat presenting their recently-awarded projects. New projects starting at UiL OTS UiL OTS, Utrecht University Yoad Winter: ERC project The Formal Semantics of Collective Categorization (ROCKY) NWO project Senegalese drum language and linguistic theory Frank Wijnen: NWO project Language impairment in the 22q11.2 deletion…

TIME CHANGE! For our Microcontact team meeting on September 27 we will read a recent Nature paper on creolization, which is being largely debated these days in different venues: Blasi, Michaelis, and Haspelmath. 2017. Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of creole languages. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0192-4.  For background prep, please read Aboh & DeGraff. 2017. A…