The 1st meeting of the Reading the classics reading group will take place on the 5th of February on MSTeams. We will be reading and discussing: On So-Called “Pronouns” in English, by  Paul Postal (1966). Reading the classics meets once a month, the 1st Thursday of the month, at 3pm CET, to read one of…

Speaker: Luigi Rizzi Time/place: February 20, 2026 / 12:00 pm (EST) Title: Locality: History and Current Ideas abstract

Chomsky’s Minimalist Program turns 30 this year! Here, some key figures in the development of this research framework share their reflections. You can watch Željko Bošković, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, and Juan Uriagereka, moderated by Cilene Rodrigues and Marcelo Sibaldo, at this link.  

Syntactic Pathways to Morphology Speaker: Jim Wood (Yale University) Title: Noun-Adjective Compounds in English and Icelandic Date/time: November 25, 2025 / 5pm (CET) Place: Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/3iodZw9ZWcwEAB3m7.

Speaker: Ivona Kučerová Title: Not all probes are equal, or are they? Date & time: Thursday 13 November 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET Zoom link: please contact the organizers

Speaker: Laura Domínguez (University of Southampton) Title: Losing your native language: the ‘dark’ side of bilingualism Time and place: Wed, 12th Nov. 2025, 7pm, Zoom. If you wish to attend, please register here [You can watch previous IC Bilingualism Series talks, including Sorace’s in-person talk from February 2025, on YouTube]

Speaker: Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) Title: Sloppy indexicals are not fake When: Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:15 – 17:30 Zoom: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63083409585?pwd=Oz5a0k884QOhRMxcgeEfDq8JWUvXPP.1 / Meeting ID: 630 8340 9585 / Passcode: S@&1f0vQ Indexical binding in constructions illustrated in (1)-(2) is one of the crucial empirical arguments questioning the Kaplanian hypothesis that indexicals rigidly depend on context. (1) Only I did my…