Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

syntax

Morphology as Syntax (MaS 3)

(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…

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MiMA midway workshop on 10 November

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…

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Norbert Corver – 60 – workshop – July 10 2023

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…

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UTL Lecture: Matilde Marcolli, A mathematical model of syntactic Merge

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…

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Talk by Cora Pots-Cavirani & Mike Putnam

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:…

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CHARTING HONORIFIC and ADDRESSEE MORPHOSYNTACTIC PROCESSES (CHAMP) – 2023

The CHAMP (Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes) Workshop will take place at UCL in London on January 20-21. Invited speakers Rajesh Bhatt (UMass), Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht), Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) PROGRAM Day 1 20th January Venue: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, B07 (Basement) Zoom Link Meeting ID: 960 1844 7028, Passcode: 025676 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome…

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PhD defense and workshop for Silvia Terenghi

On the 27th of January at 2:15 pm Silvia Terenghi will defend her dissertation entitled Missing Person: Structure and change in Romance demonstratives (downloadable here from the 27th). The PhD defense will take place in the Academiegebouw. It can be followed from remote at this link. In the morning of the 27th, there will be a…

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