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…

On the 27th of January at 2:15 pm Silvia Terenghi will defend her dissertation entitled Missing Person: Structure and change in Romance demonstratives (downloadable here from the 27th). The PhD defense will take place in the Academiegebouw. It can be followed from remote at this link. In the morning of the 27th, there will be a…

On Thursday 3 December, Silvia Terenghi will give a talk entitled Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles: Some markedness considerations for the ARU-Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar. The seminar will take place on Zoom (Zoom ID: 928 5479 4852). If you wish to attend please email Silvia Terenghi for the passcode. Abstract Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles typically…

UTRECHT THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS LECTURES Topics in Heritage Language Syntax On March 9-11, Masha Polinsky (UMD) will be our guest at UiL-OTS; she will  teach a crash course on Topics in Heritage Language Syntax, within the ERC project Microcontact . Schedule Monday 9, 15:00 – 17:00 (KNG 80, 1.06 – Ravensteynzaal)  – Agreement, agreement restructuring, clitics vs agreement…

 On 12 September, Brechje van Osch (Utrecht University) will give a syntax Interface Lecture with the title Interface vulnerability in heritage Spanish Abstract: This talk will be about interface phenomena in Spanish as a heritage language. The Interface Hypothesis (e.g. Sorace, 2000) predicts phenomena located at the interfaces between syntax and other domains to be…

The 2018 Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series will be closed magnificently by Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires), who will give a crash course entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.   The course handout is now available here: CRASH COURSE Andrés Saab. If you are attending the course, please bring it (we won’t be distributing…

On December 11, the ERC Microcontact group will host the workshop Romance varieties in (micro-)contact and linguistic theory. All information can be find on the Microcontact website. The program will be announced soon.