Speaker: Tara Struik (University of Mannheim) Title: The results of contact: Tracing changes in resultativity encoding in the history of English in contact with French Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract:This talk will focus on the question to what extent the large influx of Old and Middle French verbs effected structural changes in the realisation of resultative…

The 5th HLS workshop will take place in Hamburg on 8 November 2024. Unlike the previous editions, this year’s HLS will consist of a one-day Symposium on the syntax of heritage Romance languages in contact, for which the IRom is delighted to have 5 distinguished international experts in the field as guest speakers: Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton)…

The workshop aims to make theoretical advances in research on the syntax-prosody interface, that is, the point of interaction between sentence structure (syntax) and sound (phonology). We want to give the floor to various (theoretical) approaches to the syntax-prosody interface, in order to discuss different ways of modeling the relationship, the matches and mismatches between…

Speaker: Andrew Nevins Discussant: Jonathan Bobalijk Title: Minoritized languages guiding linguistic theory Date/Time: 11 October, 15:00 CEST Place: Zoom If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.

Speaker:  Caterina Donati Title: Is there parsing evidence for Merge over Move? Two experiments on French and Hebrew (Joint work with Francesca Foppolo, Carlo Cecchetto, Lion Oks) Date: 24 October Place: Drift 23, room 0.13 / MS Teams Time: 4-5pm Abstract:  Much work stemming from the classical garden-path model of parsing has focused either on how…

Speaker: Zetao Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Title: On reduced structures in Chinese: A labeling approach Date: 9 October Place: Trans 10 UU, MsTeams Abstract: There is a general debate concerning “reduced” clauses. Regarding the question-answer pair in (1), the sentential approach (Morgan 1973; Merchant 2004) would argue that the answer involves a full…

Speaker: Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University) Title: An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies Time: 19 September, 16:15-17:30 Place: Lipsius 0.01, Leiden University and Zoom Abstract: Explanations for linguistic phenomena are often sought either in the syntax or in non-syntactic components of human cognition, e.g. through demands of discourse processing. The unacceptability…