Matilde Marcolli (Caltech) will be visiting our university on the 26th of June, and she will give a talk with the title: A mathematical model of syntactic Merge Abstract In this talk I will present a mathematical view of the Merge operation in the Minimalist Model of syntax, in the free symmetric form of Chomsky’s…

Cora Pots-Cavirani and Mike Putnam will give a talk with the title Prefixoids ≠ Prefixes: Not all inseparable verbal compounds are (underlyingly) the same Date/time: 1 May, 16:00 (Utrecht Time) Location: Zoom pwd: please ask Mike Putnam Abstract In this presentation, we take a closer look at two subtypes of inseparable verbal compounds in Dutch:…

The CHAMP (Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes) Workshop will take place at UCL in London on January 20-21. Invited speakers Rajesh Bhatt (UMass), Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht), Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) PROGRAM Day 1 20th January Venue: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, B07 (Basement) Zoom Link Meeting ID: 960 1844 7028, Passcode: 025676 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome…

On the 27th of January at 2:15 pm Silvia Terenghi will defend her dissertation entitled Missing Person: Structure and change in Romance demonstratives (downloadable here from the 27th). The PhD defense will take place in the Academiegebouw. It can be followed from remote at this link. In the morning of the 27th, there will be a…

On the 23rd of February, Lisa Cheng (Leiden) will give a talk for the SIL, with the title: The “lightness” of verbs and verbalisers More info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/lisa-cheng-leiden-university-3/

The Symposium Formal Approaches to Galician and Portuguese Grammar will take place on 1-2 December (so, starting tomorrow). Keynote speakers: Mary Kato Jairo Nunes Ana Maria Martins Juan Uriagereka The full program can be found here All invited! If interested in attending please contact Sandra Quarezemin  for the link.  

On the 10th of November (4pm CET), Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (Yale University) will give a SIL talk on Icelandic V3 orders with temporal adjuncts: does prosody play a role? If you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers Abstract Despite Icelandic being a verb second language (V2)…