The online talk series, REFLECTIONS: FOUNDATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR, will continue with “Generative syntax over the years: on some changes and some non-changes” by Richard Kayne (NYU) on Saturday, February 10th.  Date: 10 February 2024, 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) Topic: Generative Syntax over the Years: on Some Changes and Some Non-changes How to attend   Zoom…

CRISSP is happy to announce a new CRISSP Seminar, with Adam Ledgeway Lecturer: Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) Title: Parameters of Microvariation in the Clausal Domain: A Pan-Romance View Date & time: Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16.00-17.30 Location:  Zoom Abstract: pdf

CRISSP is happy to announce a new CRISSP Seminar, with Marko Simonović: Lecturer: Marko Simonović (University of Graz) Title: The burden of Self-Realisation: Phi-Feature Exponence in Fiuman Verbs Date & time: Monday 22 January 2024, 15.30-17.00 Location:  Zoom or Warmoesberg 26, 1000 Brussels, room A07-03 Abstract: pdf

TODAY (10 January) ay 5:30 pm Markus Pöchtrager will give an NYI Distinguished Linguist talk with the title “Phonology Goes Syntax”. Attendance is free but registration is required. You can register here. Abstract To what extent do the individual modules of grammar share a similar architecture? In this talk we will ask that question about…

The REEDS-network is very happy to announce a new installment in the REEDStalks lecture series. Speakers: Hannah Gibson (University of Essex), Lutz Marten (SOAS) & Teresa Poeta (University of Essex) Title: Researching morphosyntactic variation in Swahili Date and time: Friday, 19 January at 15:00 CET Location: Zoom Abstract: pdf   All of the upcoming talks…

Roberta D’Alessandro (UU), The many natures of DOM

Matilde Marcolli, who visited our university in October, gave a series of five lectures at the MIT Linguistics Department on her joint work with Noam Chomsky and Bob Berwick on the mathematical structure of Syntactic Merge. The videos of all the lectures are available here The slides of all the talks are available here The…