LOCALITY ACROSS THE BOARD (Nice, 6-7 feb) Participants: Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France), Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena) & Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva), Elise Newman (MIT), Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) & Dominique Sportiche (UCLA), Hamida Demirdache (LLING, Nantes Université/CNRS) & Maia Duguine (IKER, CNRS), Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh), Vassilios Spyropoulos (University of…

We are delighted to announce BieLeiCoS 2025, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Bielefeld and Leiden. The two day workshop will take place at Bielefeld University, Germany, on Thursday 22 May and Friday 23 May 2025. Invited speaker:  Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University) There will be two panel sessions…

Speaker: Gianluca Porta (Ulster University) Title: Extraction from adjuncts: the role of Small Clauses When: Tuesday 26 November, 4-5pm Abstract A well-known distinction between arguments and adjuncts is that only the former allow extraction. A number of reasons for the island status of adjuncts have been proposed (e.g. Haung’s (1982) CED). Recent experimental studies challenged…

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: Foundations and Developments of Generative Grammar will continue with a talk by Adriana Belletti (University of Siena): Date: 8 February 2025, 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) Topic: Comparative Dimensions in Morphosyntax: Theoretical and Descriptive Insights from Acquisition Studies How to attend: Zoom Live stream on YouTube Zoom Information (a new link) will be sent…

Tomorrow ​(12th November) at 12-1pm (UK time), Kim A. Groothuis (Universiteit Gent) will be giving a talk entitled, Neapolitan chillo at the syntax-discourse-prosody interface.     Abstract: Neapolitan, like other Campanian varieties, features a construction in which the distal demonstrative (chillo, chella, chello ‘that.M/F/N.SG’ < Lat. ECCU + ILLU(M)) is used as an apparent expletive subject, occurring with impersonal predicates, as in (1). Moreover, chillo…

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)…