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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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BCGL 15: Argument structure, theta-roles, and their realization

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…

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