The program of the Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation is out! You can find it here. Please, remember to send an email to microcontact AT uu.nl if you are planning to attend. Thanks!

On June 7-13 Utrecht University will host the Syntax and Variation Week, on the occasion of Roberta D’Alessandro and Marjo Van Koppen’s inaugural lectures. The program features two lectures and a workshop. You are all cordially invited, but please let us know if/which event you are planning to attend (see below). PROGRAM June 7, 4:15…

The Workshop The peculiarities of Binding in Russian will take place in honor of Petya Zubkov, on the occasion of his doctoral degree. If you want to dive deeper into contemplating binding in Russian, we gladly invite you to the join the workshop. Please see the program below. Time Speaker Title 15.00-15.05 Eric Reuland Welcome 15.05-15.45…

NEW TIME AND PLACE! On April 17, Matilde Marcolli, professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, will give a talk on The Geometry of Syntax. Abstract Chomsky’s “Principles and Parameters” model proposes that syntactic structures can be encoded into a set of binary syntactic parameters. A main problem in this approach is identifying…

Peter (Petya) Zubkov wll defend his dissertation The Grammar of Binding: A study with reference to Russian on Tuesday April 24 at 12.45. This dissertation takes a minimalist perspective on the architecture of the language system and assumes no features or principles specific to reflexives. Reflexives are taken to realize bundles of derivationally valued interpretable…