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Argument structure in minimalism. Workshop in honor of Marjolein Talsma

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…

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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Neil Myler

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

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CRISSP Concord&Agreement: Teresa Espinal

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.

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The Bárány lectures at CRISSP

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)

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ComSyn: Johannes Mursell

Speaker: Johannes Mursell (Goether University, Frankfurt) Title:Syntactic effects of negation — A’-interactions and more Date/time: 16 October, 16:15-17:30 Place: Lipsius 2.07 and Zoom  

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SIL talk: Jenneke van der Wal

Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal Title: Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity Date/Time: 25 September, 4pm Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract It is a well-observed crosslinguistic fact that markers of evidentiality overlap with other concepts of speaker and hearer knowledge, such as mirativity or epistemic modality. To illustrate, the particle kamaŋ (1) indicates that the speaker has witnessed…

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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Hagit Borer

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Hagit Borer (Queen Mary University of London) Title: The Paradox of Hebrew Complex Prepositions: On the Interface between Morphology, Phonology, and Content Date/time: October 1st, 2025 / 4pm (CET) Place: Google Meet Registration: https://tinyurl.com/4w8vz4ua

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