The 1st Heritage Language Syntax #HLS brainstorming meeting will take place virtually on the 20th of June. The “guiding” question will be What should always be present in a paper on heritage syntax? – so that all the people working on it from different perspectives can find the info they need. This will also be…

Roberta D’Alessandro (ILS, UU) will be giving the next Romance Linguistics Circle talk, entitled Honorificity, phi-agreement and an inside-view on pronouns and referentiality. The case of Italian voi and lei. The talk will take place on the 14th of May at 1pm. Abstract Honorifics are not as widely present in Romance languages as they are in several Asian languages….

Masha Polinsky will give a lecture on heritage languages during her stay in Paris next week on Wednesday, in the Structures Formelles du Langage lab. The seminar will be on Wednesday 26 from 4pm Paris time, and it will be hybrid. If interested in attending, please contact Elena Soare to ask for the link. More…

On Wednesday 15 at 10:15 Alberto Frasson will defend his dissertation with the title The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages The dissertation is part of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective You can follow the defense online at this link 

On April 11, Terje Lohndal (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) will give an online talk with the title The many features of grammatical gender: A case study of Norwegian If interested, please contact Mike Putnam for the zoom link. Abstract Grammatical gender is a formal…

The 2nd Heritage Language Syntax conference will take place ONLINE, hosted by Utrecht University, on 15-17 December 2021. Invited Speakers: Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam) Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University) Oksana Laleko (State University of New York – New Paltz) Brechje van Osch (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Michael Putnam (Pennsylvania State University) Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois…

We are happy to announce the 1st Microcontact Workshop on HERITAGE LANGUAGE SYNTAX to be held at Utrecht University on 12-13 March 2020 Invited speakers – Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) – Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University) – Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) – Jason Rothman (UiT The Arctic University…