The Morpho-Syn Syndicate Speaker Series & Reading group meets online every other Monday at 3:30PM (CET) to discuss recent papers and proposals on morpho-syntax. You can find the program and the list of talks (and info on how to attend) here: https://morphosynpennstate.weebly.com/speaker-series.html The Syndicate is organized by Mike Putnam. If you wish to join, please…

On the 27th of January Norbert Cover will give a Syntax Interface Lecture with the title I did it mind’s way. Attendance is free but registration is required. More info can be found here. Abstract Manner is ubiquitous in human life. When we do things, we often do them in a particular way. This way of doing…

The next meeting of our Syntax Reading Group will take place on Monday 13th at 12 noon. We will finish discussing Chomsky’s UCLA lecture #3. All welcome! If you wish to join and are not in the mailing list, please drop an email to Roberta.  

Going Romance 2021 will take place online from 1 to 3 December 2021, and will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU Amsterdam. Besides the main session, there will a workshop on Syntactic theory and Language acquisition: the Romance perspective and a workshop on Partitivity in Romance languages. Program and info can…

Dear UTL-ers, the HLS2 program is online here. HLS2 will take place entirely online, and you’ll need to register if you wish to attend. Please drop an email to microcontact@uu.nl if you wish to attend! HLS2 will take in the afternoons of the 15, 16, and 17 of December.    

In October this year Cambridge University Press will publish The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect, written by Henk Verkuyl (UiLOTS, Utrecht). The title of this book clearly alludes to the PhD defended in Utrecht on Friday 15 October 1971, called On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects. It was published in 1972 without substantial corrections….

The 2nd Heritage Language Syntax conference will take place ONLINE, hosted by Utrecht University, on 15-17 December 2021. Invited Speakers: Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam) Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University) Oksana Laleko (State University of New York – New Paltz) Brechje van Osch (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Michael Putnam (Pennsylvania State University) Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois…