András Bárány (Leiden University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on 12 December at 16:00. Title: Universals and typological gaps in subject and object agreement The talk will be streamed on the StreamGram YouTube channel at this url Abstract Like (in)transitive constructions, ditransitive constructions can be characterised in terms of their case-marking and agreement alignment. In English, for…

 On 12 September, Brechje van Osch (Utrecht University) will give a syntax Interface Lecture with the title Interface vulnerability in heritage Spanish Abstract: This talk will be about interface phenomena in Spanish as a heritage language. The Interface Hypothesis (e.g. Sorace, 2000) predicts phenomena located at the interfaces between syntax and other domains to be…

On 10 October, Marijke De Belder (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title: Category-specific syllable structures In this talk I present an experiment that shows that speakers of Dutch have intuitions on the category of a pseudoword. They ‘feel’ that the pseudoword ‘pardijf’ is fine as a noun -but not as…

On 14 November, Jos Tellings (UU) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title: Bare superlatives and relative clauses in Dutch

The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture is going to take place on Thursday (June 6th). Laura Migliori (Leiden University) will give a talk entitled “Romance Purpose Prepositional Infinitives (PPIs). A comparative and diachronic study”. The lecture will take place from 16.00 until 17.00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A.W. de Grootkamer). All relevant information about the…

The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture is going to take place next Tuesday (May 21st). Ans van Kemenade (Radboud Universiteit) will give a talk entitled “Discourse particle then in English: clause structure and discourse organisation“. The lecture will take place from 16.00 until 17.00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A.W. de Grootkamer). All relevant information about…

The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting next week. The speaker will be Riny Huijbregts (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Special and General Theory of Merge with special and general thanks to Noam” . The lecture will take place on Thursday, February 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06….