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…

Speakers: Cristina Flores and Esther Rinke Title: Overspecification of subjects and underspecification of objects: subject-object asymmetries in heritage Portuguese as a window into divergent diachronic pathways Time: 2-3pm Place: Zoom If you wish to attend please send a message to the organizers

The 3rd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place on May 23 at 2:30 pm CET (time could change slightly). The meeting will take place on Zoom as usual (link below) and will be moderated by Liliana Sánchez (UIC). The issues we will discuss are: o    HLs show very clearly that there is a continuum between processing (and frequency effects)…

Gert-Jan Schoenmakers: The wonderful world of island experiments Date: Monday, 12 May 2025 Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Location: Trans 10, room 0.19 Abstract An important discussion in syntactic research revolves around the question whether the phenomena we observe are due to specific constraints on language structure or due to non-syntactic components of human cognition. A…

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​Sjef Barbiers on Monday 12 May 2025.   Lecturer:  Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) Title:  Attributing Dimensions to Noun Modification Date & time: Monday 12 May 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (in person): Meertens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, room 02.18 Location (online): Zoom​

ICSS 2025 will take place in Andong, South Korea, on August 11-13 2025. This conference brings together scholars investigating the cognitive, biological, and computational foundations of language within the biolinguistic framework that Noam Chomsky has pioneered. Under the theme “Towards K-Humanities: Thought, Structure, and Language Design,” we explore how language, as a thought-generating system, reflects…