Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Éva Dékány (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Eötvös University) Title: ‘Numeral Classifiers: Lessons from Languages of the Americas’ Date/time: June 19th, 2026 / 3pm (CEST) Place: Zoom Platform Registration: https://forms.gle/Bv4PKoKihm4GkY2x9.

CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the  CRISSP C&A Seminar Series: Lecturer: Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Title: Concord, Compensatory Concord, and optional feature realization in Italian and Central Italo-Romance varieties Date & time: Friday 22 May 2026, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom (contact us to get the link)  

Speaker: Rishabh Suresh (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) Title: No index, no pro-blem Date: 2 June 2026 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Location: MS Teams/Utrecht, Trans 10, room 0.19 AbstractIt has long been proposed that languages with null pronominal arguments may be partitioned roughly in terms of how freely they allow pronouns to be covert, with ‘consistent’ languages allowing any and only…

Speaker: Nerea Madariaga (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Title: Exploring the relation between person features and null subjects in generative typology Time: 4.30-6.30pm Place: English Faculty, G-R05 and online (here) Abstract: This study investigates the loci and ways of realization of those features linked to the pro-drop phenomenon, that is, the ability of languages to…

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.