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…

Speaker: Mark de Vries (U Groningen) Title: t.b.a. Place: t.b.a. Date and time: 8 May, 4pm

Speaker: Fenna Bergsma (Fryske Akademy) Title: Different infinitives in Frisian Place: Utrecht, Muntstraat 2A, room 1.11/MS Teams Date and time: 24 April, 16:00 Abstract Frisian has two morphologically distinct infinitives: one ending in -e (pronounced as [ə]) and one ending in -en (pronounced as [n]). It has been argued (cf. Visser 1989, Hoekstra 1997, Bergstra 2020) that they follow…