Speaker: Tara Struik (University of Mannheim) Title: The results of contact: Tracing changes in resultativity encoding in the history of English in contact with French Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract:This talk will focus on the question to what extent the large influx of Old and Middle French verbs effected structural changes in the realisation of resultative…

Speaker:  Caterina Donati Title: Is there parsing evidence for Merge over Move? Two experiments on French and Hebrew (Joint work with Francesca Foppolo, Carlo Cecchetto, Lion Oks) Date: 24 October Place: Drift 23, room 0.13 / MS Teams Time: 4-5pm Abstract:  Much work stemming from the classical garden-path model of parsing has focused either on how…

Speaker: Zetao Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Title: On reduced structures in Chinese: A labeling approach Date: 9 October Place: Trans 10 UU, MsTeams Abstract: There is a general debate concerning “reduced” clauses. Regarding the question-answer pair in (1), the sentential approach (Morgan 1973; Merchant 2004) would argue that the answer involves a full…

Speaker: Nicholas Catasso (University of Wuppertal) Title: t.b.a. Place:  MS Teams Abstract: t.b.a. — If you are not already a member of the Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS teams and affiliated to the UU, to use this link to join the team: If you would like to join the talk and are not affiliated with UU,…

Speaker: Boban Asenijević, University of Graz Title: From intensification to reflexivization and back Date: 12 September Time: 16:00-17:00 Place: Ms Teams Abstract: It has been observed in the literature that a strong link exists cross-linguistically between intensified and reflexive pronouns (König & Siemund 2005, É. Kiss & Mus 2022, a.o.). Various patterns are attested: reflexive pronouns…

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…