The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Lisa Travis (McGill University):   Date: Friday, 19 September 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Topic: Reflections on the Place of Head Movement in Generative Grammar (abstract)   How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information will be sent out the day…

Speaker: Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) Title: On the structure of verbalization Date/time: August 15th, 2025 / 4pm (CET) Place: Google Meet Registration: https://tinyurl.com/mv9wh82e  

The first  installment of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 1) will take place in Amsterdam on 17–18 September 2025. The program of LiCLA 1 is now online: https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/licla-1/program/ Registration will be opened in the second half of August.

Speaker: Michael T Putnam Title: Distributed Morphology in Diachrony: The trajectory of umlaut in German Date/time: 24 July, 3pm Place: Google Meet Abstract: Although the application of Distributed Morphology (DM), and related neo-constructionist, late-insertion frameworks, to bi/multilingual data has opened the door to collaborations between formal linguists and language scientists (López 2020, to appear; Lohndal…

Speaker: Veronica Girolami (University of Verona) Title: Combining Unaccusativity Diagnostics in Romance: Preliminary Evidence from Italian and French Place/time: Zoom, 2-3pm More information

The workshop Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages will be held in Paris (Inalco) / Zoom on June 6 2025.  Invited speakers: Roberta D’Alessandro & Sivia Terenghi (University of Utrecht) Organizers: Elena Soare (Univ. Paris 8 & CNRS), Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS) and Larisa Avram (Univ. Bucharest) Program 9:30-9 :45 Welcome and…

Speaker: Imke Driemel (University of York) Title: Anaphoric definites and where they put the index Date: 5 June 2025 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: Janskerkhof 15A, room 1.03 / MS Teams Abstract Since Schwarz’ (2009) dissertation, cross-linguistic evidence from a number of languages has emerged that points towards a morpho-syntactic distinction between uniqueness based definites like ‘the moon’…