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…

Our next SRG, on December 1st, is approaching. We will read chapters 5 and 6 of this very recent book (it appeared 5 days ago): Chomsky et al, Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis. The book is available for free download until 4 December from the CUP site:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/merge-and-the-strong-minimalist-thesis/F44DB97F68BB3A5CDB58A4684A3E5E6B Please use the link below to…

The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies is an advanced live program focusing on underrepresented and interdisciplinary fields of study, including critical cultural studies, theoretical linguistics, and more. It will take place in January, entirely online. There will be the chance to attend advanced courses in theoretical linguistics online. The list of…

Syntactic ingredients for telicity: An aspectual projection, an aspectual operator, and scalar points Jonathan MacDonald (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), 29th of November.

The next Syntax Reading Group will take place on November 2 at 12 noon on Teams (link below) We will be reading Larson (2021), Rethinking Cartography. You can find the file in the Teams Files folder. Should you wish to attend but not yet part of the group, please email me (Roberta) so I can add…