Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

syntax

ComSyn talk: Martina Wiltschko

Speaker: Martina Wiltschko (ICREA, U Pompeu Fabra) Title:  Anchoring conditions for the mind. The syntax of egophoricity in Kathmandu Newā Location/time : Lipsius 1.31 Leiden/Zoom upon request, 16:15-17:30 Zoom: upon request (All talks this semester will be held in-person, and we will no longer automatically stream them via Zoom. If you want to join online,…

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IUSS Linguistics Seminars – Xavier Villalba

Speaker: Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Title: Expletive complementizers and epistemicity in exclamatives and beyond Date/time: Monday, June 22, 2026, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm  Introduced by: Andrea Moro & Matteo Greco (IUSS Pavia) In this talk, Prof. Villalba will argue that the presence of expletive que/che is not a case of free optionality. Drawing on…

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Syntactic Pathways to Morphology: Éva Dékány

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.

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CRISSP C&A seminar: Anna Cardinaletti

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)  

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SIL talk: Rishabh Suresh

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…

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Syntax Lab: Nerea Madariaga

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…

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