On 16 and 18 March Mara Frascarelli (University of Roma Tre) will give a crash course entitled Superiority in Fronting: A syntax-semantics interface approach to optionality. The course is open to everyone. Timetable Monday 16, 11:00-13:00, KNG 80, 1.06 Wednesday 18, 11:00-13:00, Drift 23, 0.12 If you wish to join it online you can use…

The next meeting of the Reading the classics reading group will take place on the 5th of March on MSTeams. We will be reading and discussing: Chapter 2 of Kayne, Zanuttini & Leu: Joan W. Bresnan, On Complementizers: Toward a Syntactic Theory of Complement Types. In Foundations of Language 6 (1970): 297–321. Reading the classics meets once a month, the 1st…

Humans are designed to detect symmetry. In fact, this notion may be defined in distinct domains: the physical world, art, mathematical structures and codes of communications. Certainly, there can be symmetries in the structure of human language in different modules of grammar, such as semantics and phonology. Can there be symmetry in syntax? By relying…

The 1st meeting of the Reading the classics reading group will take place on the 5th of February on MSTeams. We will be reading and discussing: On So-Called “Pronouns” in English, by  Paul Postal (1966). Reading the classics meets once a month, the 1st Thursday of the month, at 3pm CET, to read one of…

Speaker: Luigi Rizzi Time/place: February 20, 2026 / 12:00 pm (EST) Title: Locality: History and Current Ideas abstract

Chomsky’s Minimalist Program turns 30 this year! Here, some key figures in the development of this research framework share their reflections. You can watch Željko Bošković, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, and Juan Uriagereka, moderated by Cilene Rodrigues and Marcelo Sibaldo, at this link.  

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Jim Wood (Yale University) Title: Noun-Adjective Compounds in English and Icelandic Date/time: November 25, 2025 / 5pm (CET) Place: Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/3iodZw9ZWcwEAB3m7.