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…

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…