Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

SIL

CANCELED: SIL talk: Elisabeth Kerr

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…

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SIL talk Lisa Cheng

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/

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SIL talk by Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir

On the 10th of November (4pm CET), Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (Yale University) will give a SIL talk on Icelandic V3 orders with temporal adjuncts: does prosody play a role? If you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers Abstract Despite Icelandic being a verb second language (V2)…

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Syntax Interface Lecture: Richard Kayne

On the 27th of October Richard Kayne (NYU) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title and abstract: t.b.a. All welcome! If you are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers 

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SIL talk: Edgar David Martínez García (University of Cyprus)

On the 9th of June, Edgar David Martínez García (University of Cyprus) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture with the title Towards a Grammar of English and Spanish Minimizers If you wish to attend and you are not enrolled in the SIL group on Teams please contact the organizers Abstract The main objective of this…

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