The final workshop of the MIMA! project on Manner Adverbials is going to take place on 6-7 March in Utrecht. The aim of this workshop is two-fold: (i) to celebrate the culmination of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University and share its results, and (ii) to bring together (junior and senior) researchers to…

Speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS Berlin) Title: Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation Date/Time: 20th of February, 15:15-17:00 Location: Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, room 0.20 Leiden Abstract In this talk, I will discuss two issues within syntactic approaches to nominalization, focusing on Grimshaw’s (1990) complex event nominals (CENs), that are currently controversially…

The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes will be hosted at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on the 28th and 29th of March. INVITED SPEAKERS: Ruoan Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Dániel Kádár (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) The program and further info can be found here.

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​David Adger on Monday 10 February 2025.   Lecturer:  David Adger (Queen Mary University of London) ​Title: Mereological Syntax and Noun Phrase Islands Date & time: Monday 10 February 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (in person): Meertens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, room…

LOCALITY ACROSS THE BOARD (Nice, 6-7 feb) Participants: Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France), Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena) & Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva), Elise Newman (MIT), Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) & Dominique Sportiche (UCLA), Hamida Demirdache (LLING, Nantes Université/CNRS) & Maia Duguine (IKER, CNRS), Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh), Vassilios Spyropoulos (University of…

We are delighted to announce BieLeiCoS 2025, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Bielefeld and Leiden. The two day workshop will take place at Bielefeld University, Germany, on Thursday 22 May and Friday 23 May 2025. Invited speaker:  Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University) There will be two panel sessions…

Speaker: Gianluca Porta (Ulster University) Title: Extraction from adjuncts: the role of Small Clauses When: Tuesday 26 November, 4-5pm Abstract A well-known distinction between arguments and adjuncts is that only the former allow extraction. A number of reasons for the island status of adjuncts have been proposed (e.g. Haung’s (1982) CED). Recent experimental studies challenged…