(Please note that the times are all in EST/Montreal!) The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions.  Can morphology and syntax be unified under purely Merge…

We are excited to invite you to the official midway workshop of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University! The MiMA team is proud to host this workshop to share its first findings and gather feedback, but also give the floor to others to present current work in the domains of manner and/or comparative adverbial morpho-syntax. Please…

Slight change in the program (see below) Dear friends and colleagues of Norbert, For Norbert’s 60th birthday we, his colleagues from Dutch linguistics and his current PhD-students, organize an afternoon with lectures and we invite you all to join us for some linguistic merriment. The workshop will take place on Monday July 10th from 1400-1700…

Matilde Marcolli (Caltech) will be visiting our university on the 26th of June, and she will give a talk with the title: A mathematical model of syntactic Merge Abstract In this talk I will present a mathematical view of the Merge operation in the Minimalist Model of syntax, in the free symmetric form of Chomsky’s…

Cora Pots-Cavirani and Mike Putnam will give a talk with the title Prefixoids ≠ Prefixes: Not all inseparable verbal compounds are (underlyingly) the same Date/time: 1 May, 16:00 (Utrecht Time) Location: Zoom pwd: please ask Mike Putnam Abstract In this presentation, we take a closer look at two subtypes of inseparable verbal compounds in Dutch:…