Speaker: Boban Asenijević, University of Graz Title: From intensification to reflexivization and back Date: 12 September Time: 16:00-17:00 Place: Ms Teams Abstract: It has been observed in the literature that a strong link exists cross-linguistically between intensified and reflexive pronouns (König & Siemund 2005, É. Kiss & Mus 2022, a.o.). Various patterns are attested: reflexive pronouns…

The first online Summer School On Iranian linguistics (SSOIL) will be held on August 5-8, 2024.  The program is below. Shahriar Hormozi is the principal organizer of this summer school. This event is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Iranian Linguistics research team at the University of Arizona. Please send your questions to…

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland) in just 2 weeks: Date: 29 June 2024, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Topic: Optionality in Generative Syntax: A Brief History and a Case Study How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new…

The 1st Heritage Language Syntax #HLS brainstorming meeting will take place virtually on the 20th of June. The “guiding” question will be What should always be present in a paper on heritage syntax? – so that all the people working on it from different perspectives can find the info they need. This will also be…

LeiBieCos, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Leiden and Bielefeld, will take place at Leiden University on Thursday 23 May and Friday 24 May 2024. The program can be found here. Registration In order to attend the conference, please register using this form. The registration fee is €50, which covers coffee/tea, snacks and…

Roberta D’Alessandro (ILS, UU) will be giving the next Romance Linguistics Circle talk, entitled Honorificity, phi-agreement and an inside-view on pronouns and referentiality. The case of Italian voi and lei. The talk will take place on the 14th of May at 1pm. Abstract Honorifics are not as widely present in Romance languages as they are in several Asian languages….

On May 7, Xavier Villalba (Autonomous University of Barcelona) will be giving a talk entitled, ​Mirative markers in Romance exclamative sentences.  Abstract: Exclamative sentences in Romance involve a rich set of markers whose syntactic position and semantic/pragmatic meaning is unclear. Consider the markers (mrk) in boldface in the exclamative sentences in (1): (1) a.  Si      (que)…