RoLinC
RoLinC talk: Fabienne Martin
Talk: Tomorrow (19th March) at 12-1pm (UK time), Fabienne Martin (Utrecht University) will be giving a talk entitled,The ‘no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined. Abstract: Weak scalar expressions like English It is possible that P (defeasibly) implicate the negation of their stronger alternatives such as It is certain that P (Grice 1967,…
Read moreRomance Linguistics Circle: spring talks
The spring talk calendar for the Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC) organized by the universities of Cambridge and Newcastle is now out. All talks are open for attendance, but you’ll need to contact the organizers to get a Zoom link. The talks take place every Tuesday at 1-2 pm (Utrecht time) 25th April Alice Corr (University…
Read moreRoLinC talk: Wyn Shaw
Speaker: Wyn Shaw (University of Oxford) Title: The History of Subject Verb Inversions in French Date: 6th June Time: 1-2 pm Utrecht time Zoom link: please contact the organizers
Read moreRoLinC talk by Alice Corr & Onkar Singh
On April 25, Alice Corr (Birmingham) and Onkar Singh (Cambridge) will give a talk with the title Adjective-Noun orders in Turkish Judeo-Spanish: a case of conservatism or innovation in the nominal domain? To receive the Zoom link, please contact the organizers
Read moreRoLinC talk: Christina Tortora
On the 29th of March, Christina Tortora (City University of New York) will give a RoLinC talk entitled Vernacular orthography and syntactic structure. More info: https://rolinc.org/present-talks/
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