Speakers: Frances Blanchette (Penn State University) & Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason University) Title: What’s in a grammar? Microsyntactic variation in American English negative dependencies Date and time: Friday, 15 March at 17:00 CET (Click here to add to your Google calendar) Location: Zoom Abstract: pdf   All of the upcoming talks in the REEDStalks series are listed on the REEDS-website,…

Our next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on the 5th of April, at 12 noon as usual. As agreed, we will discuss again Merge and the SMT, this time with one of its authors: Riny Huijbregts. We will discuss chapters 4-6. For those of you who were there also last time: please refresh your…

Mike Putnam (Penn State University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on the 28th of March. Title: The syntax of umlaut – a cursory overview of the diachronic (& synchronic) development of plural in German(ic) If you are not in the Teams SIL group, please contact the organizers so they can add you. If you…

A Split-Merge approach to argument structure Abstract In this talk, I discuss a novel way of associating arguments with their predicate, based on the concept of Split-Merge (Zwart 2009). Where traditional Merge is binary and combines two elements into one, Zwart’s Split-Merge is unary and only targets one element at a time. The main view presented…

The next Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Linguistics Department of Tel Aviv University will be held by Jim Wood (Yale), presenting joint work with  Einar Freyr Sigurðsson. The talk will be entitled Coordination of Verbs in Icelandic Attendance is free. Abstract Zoom link