Speaker: Madhusmitha Venkatesan (IIT Delhi) Title: Exploring Stability and Change in Heritage Grammars: Derived Adjectives in Heritage Tamil Time/Venue: 27 March, 4pm (CET), Ms Teams (if you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Team, please contact the organizers for the link) Abstract Heritage grammars tend to undergo change owing to their constrained…

Speaker: Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France) Title: Co-occurrence and ordering constraints on topics and foci in Romance and beyond Time/place: 2-3pm, Zoom Abstract One of the significant empirical contributions of the cartographic program has been the discovery of cross-linguistically stable ordering and co-occurrence constraints in functional structures (Cinque 1999 on the structure of IP, Rizzi…

Morphology as Syntax 4  When: Friday, April 17, 2026 Keynote speakers: Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani Christina Tortora Location: Queens College, City University of New York  Queens Hall 250, 65-21 Main Street Flushing, NY 11367 https://www.qc.cuny.edu/home1/ Attendance online is free but you’ll need to register. Please register here.

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, Trans 10, 0.19 (room change!) If you wish to join it online you…

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…