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’…

REFLECTIONS Talk Series will continue with a talk by Rita Manzini (University of Florence): Date: 27 June 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) – Notice the change to Friday! Topic: Language Variation and Universals in Generative Models How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new link) will be sent out the day before the talk…

The eighth GLOWing lecture will take place on Friday, June 6 at 15:00 CEST. Sandra Villata (The Kore University Enna ) will talk about “The role of experimental syntax in linguistic theorizing”. The discussant will be Shota Momma (UMass Amherst). More information about the GLOWing lectures is available at https://glowlinguistics.org/lectures/.

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Lecture Series: Martina Wiltschko (ICREA / Pompeu Fabra University) Title: Three syntactic pathways to honorificity: Towards a typology of marking politeness Date: June 10th, 2025 Time: 4pm Syntactic Pathways to Morphology (SPTM) is a monthly online lecture series hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo, bringing…