This Tuesday 1st November at 14-15.15 (Utrecht time) Sonia Cyrino (University of Campinas) will be presenting a talk entitled ‘More on Negation in Brazilian Portuguese’. If interested in attending, please contact the RoLinc organizers for the Zoom link.   Abstract: It has been shown in several works (Schwenter 2005, Cavalcante 2007, 2012, Biberauer & Cyrino 2009, Cyrino & Biberauer 2009, Teixeira…

Masha Polinsky will give a lecture on heritage languages during her stay in Paris next week on Wednesday, in the Structures Formelles du Langage lab. The seminar will be on Wednesday 26 from 4pm Paris time, and it will be hybrid. If interested in attending, please contact Elena Soare to ask for the link. More…

Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the ERC Microcontact, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be organised in Paris on October 20-21 within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator Elena Soare,…

Prudence de Pontbriand (University of Göttingen) will give a talk for the RoLinC on ‘Syntactic Optionality and null objects in Old French‘. If interested, please email the organizers

Ian Roberts (Downing College, Cambridge) and Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) will be giving a talk for the Romance Linguistics Circle with the title ‘The cross-linguistic realisation of non-active Voice: comparing Albanian with Romance‘. If interested, please send an email to the RoLinC organizers

The International workshop ‘Advancing code-switching research’ will take place on 6-7 October 2022 at the University of Vigo. It can be followed entirely online. Attendance is free but registration is compulsory. More information about the program can be found here.

On the 27th of October Richard Kayne (NYU) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title and abstract: t.b.a. All welcome! If you are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers