Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

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Syntax Interface Lecture: Marijke De Belder

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…

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Sintax Interface Lecture by Laura Migliori (Leiden University)

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…

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Syntax Interface Lecture by Ans van Kemenade (Radboud Universiteit)

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…

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Syntax Interface Lecture: Riny Huijbregts

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….

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Syntax Interface Lecture: Myrthe Bergstra

The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A. W. De Grootkamer). The speaker will be Myrthe Bergstra (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Micro-variation, contact and change: the absentive in Frisian and Dutch”. The abstract can be found on…

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