On our next meeting, Matthew Mandelkern (Oxford) and Jacopo Romoli (Ulster U.) will present their recent paper: “We’ve discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!)” – joint work with Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz, to appear in Linguistics & Philosophy. Link to paper: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfop0776/Discovered.pdf Abstract: Is the mechanism behind presupposition projection and filtering fundamentally asymmetric or symmetric?…

Have you ever wondered what presuppositions in linguistics are about? Now there is a chance to study the topic in a group of other interested researchers at the UiL OTS. The idea is to have an informal forum where interested UiL OTSers could carry out a free discussion on topics that are relevant to all…

The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting next week. The speaker will be Riny Huijbregts (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Special and General Theory of Merge with special and general thanks to Noam” . The lecture will take place on Thursday, February 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06….

The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A. W. De Grootkamer). The speaker will be Myrthe Bergstra (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Micro-variation, contact and change: the absentive in Frisian and Dutch”. The abstract can be found on…

The 2018 Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series will be closed magnificently by Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires), who will give a crash course entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.   The course handout is now available here: CRASH COURSE Andrés Saab. If you are attending the course, please bring it (we won’t be distributing…

Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires) will give the next set of Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures. His crash course will be entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.    The course will take place on Monday 17, Tuesday 18, and Wednesday 19 at 11:00-13:00 in  Janskerkhof 13 0.06 (Stijlkamer) Attendance is free, but we…

On 17 October, Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) will give a SIL talk entitled On the core significance of the periphery: an Afrikaans case study. This talk is part of the Syntax Interface Lecture Series, and will complement the UTL lecture series on Three factors, variation, contact  that Theresa will give on 16-18 October. You can…