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)….