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Why study heritage languages? A lecture by Maria Polinsky

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…

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Heritage Language Syntax 3

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,…

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Ian Roberts & Dalina Kallulli

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

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Syntax Interface Lecture: Richard Kayne

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 

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UiL-OTS Colloquium: Norbert Corver

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,…

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