UTRECHT THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS LECTURES Topics in Heritage Language Syntax On March 9-11, Masha Polinsky (UMD) will be our guest at UiL-OTS; she will  teach a crash course on Topics in Heritage Language Syntax, within the ERC project Microcontact . Schedule Monday 9, 15:00 – 17:00 (KNG 80, 1.06 – Ravensteynzaal)  – Agreement, agreement restructuring, clitics vs agreement…

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Crash course in Formal Linguistics for PhDs  Registration deadline: 25 November We’re happy to announce a crash course in formal linguistics for all PhD students at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, as well as potential participants from other departments and universities. This course will give young researchers who do not have previous training in Formal…

We are happy to announce the 1st Microcontact Workshop on HERITAGE LANGUAGE SYNTAX to be held at Utrecht University on 12-13 March 2020 Invited speakers – Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) – Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University) – Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) – Jason Rothman (UiT The Arctic University…

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….