The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, November 6th, from 16:00 until 17:00 in our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Joanna Wall (Saarland University) with the title ‘Plurality in the Label-Less Grammar Model’. Plurality in the Label-Less Grammar Model In generative syntax, a core role…

Speaker: Nermina Čordalija  (University of Sarajevo) Title: Grammatical aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English: Insights from experimental studies Date/Time: 27 October, 11am Place: Janskerkhof 13, room 0.06 / MS Teams Abstract This talk addresses important theoretical issues concerning grammatical aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English. Three experimental studies on L1 and L2 processing of grammatical aspect are then presented. L1…

Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal Title: Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity Date/Time: 25 September, 4pm Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract It is a well-observed crosslinguistic fact that markers of evidentiality overlap with other concepts of speaker and hearer knowledge, such as mirativity or epistemic modality. To illustrate, the particle kamaŋ (1) indicates that the speaker has witnessed…

Speaker: Pritha Chandra (IIT Delhi) Title: The syntax of politeness in Eastern Indo-Aryan Time/place: 4pm, Muntstraat 2A, room 1.11/MS Teams Abstract Recent years have seen considerable research around the representation of discourse-related constructs such as Speech Act Participants, politeness/honorificity etc in the syntactic tree (cf. Speas and Tenny 2003; Miyagawa 2012; Portner et al 2019;…

Speaker: Imke Driemel (University of York) Title: Anaphoric definites and where they put the index Date: 5 June 2025 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: Janskerkhof 15A, room 1.03 / MS Teams Abstract Since Schwarz’ (2009) dissertation, cross-linguistic evidence from a number of languages has emerged that points towards a morpho-syntactic distinction between uniqueness based definites like ‘the moon’…

Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) Title: Beyond categorisers? DATE: 28 March Time: 4-5 pm Abstract Marantz (1996; 1997; et seq.) introduced a view of lexical categories according to which so-called lexical nouns, verbs, and adjectives result  from acategorial roots being categorised in grammar by categorising heads n, v, and a. Since then, research has only turned up modest…

Speaker: Gianluca Porta (Ulster University) Title: Extraction from adjuncts: the role of Small Clauses When: Tuesday 26 November, 4-5pm Abstract A well-known distinction between arguments and adjuncts is that only the former allow extraction. A number of reasons for the island status of adjuncts have been proposed (e.g. Haung’s (1982) CED). Recent experimental studies challenged…