The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Friday 7 June at 12 noon. We will read Van Hoof (1997), Left dislocation and split topics in Brabant Dutch (in the Teams folder), in preparation to the SIL talk by Lieke Hendrix (who will actually speak the day BEFORE the SRG meeting, which means…

Our next Syntax reading group meeting is scheduled for May 2, at 12 noon. We will read a “provocative” paper by our next SIL talk Jairo Nuñes, entitled Linearizing chains at LF, in Gallego and Martins (2018), Language, Syntax and Natural Sciences, CUP. The paper is available at the UB as ebook. I’ll also put…

Our next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on the 5th of April, at 12 noon as usual. As agreed, we will discuss again Merge and the SMT, this time with one of its authors: Riny Huijbregts. We will discuss chapters 4-6. For those of you who were there also last time: please refresh your…

Our next SRG, on December 1st, is approaching. We will read chapters 5 and 6 of this very recent book (it appeared 5 days ago): Chomsky et al, Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis. The book is available for free download until 4 December from the CUP site:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/merge-and-the-strong-minimalist-thesis/F44DB97F68BB3A5CDB58A4684A3E5E6B Please use the link below to…

The next Syntax Reading Group will take place on November 2 at 12 noon on Teams (link below) We will be reading Larson (2021), Rethinking Cartography. You can find the file in the Teams Files folder. Should you wish to attend but not yet part of the group, please email me (Roberta) so I can add…

In this SRG meeting Norbert and Peter will lecture on Chomsky’s Japan paper “Minimalism: where are we now, and where can we hope to go”. If you wish to join and you’re not registered yet please send an email to Roberta

On the 24th of January we will round up the discussion on the UCLA lectures #2 and #3 If you wish to join the group please send an email to Roberta.