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…

On Friday the 28th February at 10:00am, Joanna Wall will defend her dissertation entitled Towards a label-less grammar. The PhD defence will take place in the Senaatszaal, Academiegebouw, Domplein 29 Utrecht. In the afternoon of the 28th, there will be a short workshop to celebrate Joanna’s defence, with theoretical syntax talks and discussion related to…

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.