The 3rd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place on May 23 at 2:30 pm CET. The meeting will take place on Zoom as usual (link below) and will be moderated by Liliana Sánchez (UIC). The issues we will discuss are: o    HLs show very clearly that there is a continuum between processing (and frequency effects) and syntactic structural…

Gert-Jan Schoenmakers: The wonderful world of island experiments Date: Monday, 12 May 2025 Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Location: Trans 10, room 0.19 Abstract An important discussion in syntactic research revolves around the question whether the phenomena we observe are due to specific constraints on language structure or due to non-syntactic components of human cognition. A…

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​Sjef Barbiers on Monday 12 May 2025.   Lecturer:  Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) Title:  Attributing Dimensions to Noun Modification Date & time: Monday 12 May 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET Location (in person): Meertens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, room 02.18 Location (online): Zoom​

ICSS 2025 will take place in Andong, South Korea, on August 11-13 2025. This conference brings together scholars investigating the cognitive, biological, and computational foundations of language within the biolinguistic framework that Noam Chomsky has pioneered. Under the theme “Towards K-Humanities: Thought, Structure, and Language Design,” we explore how language, as a thought-generating system, reflects…

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will organize an online summer school, ‘The Syntax of Discourse’, from the 2nd of July to the 4th of July 2025. The three-day-long event will feature lectures by eminent scholars on wide-ranging discourse-related topics. The school aims to train students on the current state of research on the…

Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) Title: Beyond categorisers? DATE: 28 March Time: 4-5 pm Abstract Marantz (1996; 1997; et seq.) introduced a view of lexical categories according to which so-called lexical nouns, verbs, and adjectives result  from acategorial roots being categorised in grammar by categorising heads n, v, and a. Since then, research has only turned up modest…

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge): Date: 5 April 2025, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Topic: Against Input Generalisation: Evaluation Metrics in Generative Grammar   How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new link) will be sent out…