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LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 1)

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.

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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Mike Putnam

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…

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RoLinC talk: Veronica Girolami

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

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Third factors in Language Design: the view from heritage languages

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…

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SIL talk: Imke Driemel

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’…

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REFLECTIONS talk: Rita Manzini

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…

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GLOWing talk: Sandra Villata

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/.

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