Mike Putnam (Penn State University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on the 28th of March. Title: The syntax of umlaut – a cursory overview of the diachronic (& synchronic) development of plural in German(ic) If you are not in the Teams SIL group, please contact the organizers so they can add you. If you…

A Split-Merge approach to argument structure Abstract In this talk, I discuss a novel way of associating arguments with their predicate, based on the concept of Split-Merge (Zwart 2009). Where traditional Merge is binary and combines two elements into one, Zwart’s Split-Merge is unary and only targets one element at a time. The main view presented…

Roberta D’Alessandro (UU), The many natures of DOM

Syntactic ingredients for telicity: An aspectual projection, an aspectual operator, and scalar points Jonathan MacDonald (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), 29th of November.

The talk by Steven Foley on 12 October is CANCELED!   Steven Foley (University of Southern California) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on 12 October, with the title Inverted agents and demoted goals in Georgian Abstract Case marking in Georgian transitive clauses differs across tense categories. Most strikingly, external arguments in perfect tenses “invert”:…

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this talk is CANCELED. It will be rescheduled to September. Elisabeth Kerr (Leiden University) will give a SIL talk on the 29th of June. The talk is entitled When object movement splits the noun phrase Abstract Discontinuous noun phrases are familiar from languages where a difference in information structural (IS) status…

On the 23rd of February, Lisa Cheng (Leiden) will give a talk for the SIL, with the title: The “lightness” of verbs and verbalisers More info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/lisa-cheng-leiden-university-3/