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…

On the morning of Jolien Scholten’s defence, there will be workshop celebrating her dissertation. Program 9.45-9.50 Marjo van Koppen & Norbert Corver: Welcome 9.50-10.30 Johan Rooryck: There is no inalienable possession in French 10.30-10.40 Break 10.40-11.20: Eva Dekany: DP structure and (in)alienability in Hungarian Sign Language 11.20-12.00: Marcel den Dikken: Objective external possessor constructions: Contrasting…

  Dear students and colleagues, Next week, Jon Gajewski from UConn (Connecticut, USA) will visit UiL-OTS. He is an expert on negative polarity items and neg-raising. You can find more about his research on his webpage: https://jon-gajewski.uconn.edu/ He will give two crash courses and one seminar. You are all very much invited to join both the courses…

Dear all, Artemis Alexiadou’s UTL lectures are partly based on this article: Alexiadou (2018) Language variation and change: a case study of the loss of genitive Case in (Heritage) Greek Her Syntax Interface lecture ppt is here: Utrecht_ 19.2 (Those who attended the course can drop me an email if they wish to have the class notes)….