The 5th HLS workshop will take place in Hamburg on 8 November 2024. Unlike the previous editions, this year’s HLS will consist of a one-day Symposium on the syntax of heritage Romance languages in contact, for which the IRom is delighted to have 5 distinguished international experts in the field as guest speakers: Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton)…

THE MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON. The 2nd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place on the 25th of November at 2 pm.  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…

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…

Heritage Language Syntax is a platform built around the Heritage Language Syntax (HLS) workshop series. It focuses on heritage and/or minority language syntax, with particular attention to language change in contact and its bearings on our knowledge and understanding of syntactic theory. We have several workshops planned, but we are also going to host methodology…

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…

Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the ERC Microcontact, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be organised in Paris on October 20-21 within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator Elena Soare,…

Dear UTL-ers, the HLS2 program is online here. HLS2 will take place entirely online, and you’ll need to register if you wish to attend. Please drop an email to microcontact@uu.nl if you wish to attend! HLS2 will take in the afternoons of the 15, 16, and 17 of December.