Speaker: Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) Title: Sloppy indexicals are not fake When: Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:15 – 17:30 Zoom: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63083409585?pwd=Oz5a0k884QOhRMxcgeEfDq8JWUvXPP.1 / Meeting ID: 630 8340 9585 / Passcode: S@&1f0vQ Indexical binding in constructions illustrated in (1)-(2) is one of the crucial empirical arguments questioning the Kaplanian hypothesis that indexicals rigidly depend on context. (1) Only I did my…

Lecturer: Giuliana Giusti Title: Feature Merger and Feature Realization. A unifying approach to nominal structure Date & time: Thursday 23 October 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET Location: Zoom

We are happy to announce the establishment of the Syntax Circle! The Syntax Circle brings together all (morpho)syntacticians working on formal linguistics in the Netherlands. Formal linguistics is the kind of research that is aimed specifically at contributing to knowledge about the formal, structural and conceptual properties of the faculty of language in general, as is…

Workshop Argument structure in minimalism, in honor of Marjolein Talsma on the day of her defense Date: October 30, 2025, University of Groningen Program 14:00-17:00 room 1312.0018 14:00 Marjolein Talsma (University of Groningen) The automatic linking of arguments and theta-roles in nonfinite contexts 14:30 Nobert Corver (Utrecht University) On R-adjectives and unification 15:00 Angeliek van…

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Neil Myler (Boston University) Title: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation Date/time: October 24, 2025 / 3pm (CET) Place: Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/8Ldi14vpZWzEvBKj8

The CRISSP C&A Seminar Series is a series of one-hour online talks around a central topic. The next talk in the series is by Teresa Espinal, on 2 October 2025 at 15.00–16.30 CET on Zoom (title & abstract will follow). The full speaker line-up can be consulted on the C&A homepage.

Lecturer: András Bárány (University of Edinburgh) Title: Exploring morphosyntactic variation across languages Abstract: pdf Date and time: 4–6 November 2025, 9.00–12.00 Participation: free Location (in person): KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Brussels Campus, Warmoesberg 26, 1000 Brussels, room A07-04 on Tuesday and A04-04 on Wednesday & Thursday Location (online): Zoom (contact us to get the link)