On the 15th of September our new director Norbert Corver will inaugurate the 22-23 UiL-OTS (Institute for Language Science) Colloquium with a talk entitled There is plenty of manner!  All invited! Abstract There is plenty of manner in human life. When we do things, we often do them in a particular way. You wake up happily,…

The fifteenth installment of the BCGL (Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics) will take place in Brussels on October 6-7, 2022. Invited speakers: Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) Chris Collins (New York University) Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) Yining Nie (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) The program is available online at this link For further information, please check the…

Isogloss has just published the 2nd “Inter-views”, i.e. a short interview to several linguists of different beliefs, on Cartography. The linguists who answered questions about syntactic cartography, its descriptive and predictive power, issues of selection and feature encoding, are Enoch Aboh, Guglielmo Cinque, Alice Corr, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Gillian Ramchand and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. A good pre-summer…

On Wednesday 15 at 10:15 Alberto Frasson will defend his dissertation with the title The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages The dissertation is part of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective You can follow the defense online at this link 

On Monday, April 25, Pritha Chandra (IIT Delhi) and Roberta D’Alessandro will be giving a talk at the Morpho-syn Syndicate (Penn State U) with the title Ergativity, phi-agreement and alignment. When things start going Accusative If you wish to attend please let Roberta know and she’ll send you the link. ABSTRACT Whether structural case is…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place tomorrow, 11th April at 12 noon. We will discuss Collins & Stabler (2016), A formalization of Minimalist Syntax  All invited! If you wish to attend and do not have the link please email Roberta and she’ll send it to you.

On April 11, Terje Lohndal (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) will give an online talk with the title The many features of grammatical gender: A case study of Norwegian If interested, please contact Mike Putnam for the zoom link. Abstract Grammatical gender is a formal…