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…

IUSS Linguistics Seminars for PhD students Lecturer: Roberta D’Alessandro (ILS) Title: Agreement and feature bundles: The view from heritage languages Date/time: 29 June, 11:00-13:00 Venue: The seminar can be attended online via Zoom

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…