On the 23rd of February, Lisa Cheng (Leiden) will give a talk for the SIL, with the title: The “lightness” of verbs and verbalisers More info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/lisa-cheng-leiden-university-3/

The Symposium Formal Approaches to Galician and Portuguese Grammar will take place on 1-2 December (so, starting tomorrow). Keynote speakers: Mary Kato Jairo Nunes Ana Maria Martins Juan Uriagereka The full program can be found here All invited! If interested in attending please contact Sandra Quarezemin  for the link.  

On the 10th of November (4pm CET), Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (Yale University) will give a SIL talk on Icelandic V3 orders with temporal adjuncts: does prosody play a role? If you wish to attend and are not in the SIL Teams group, please contact the organizers Abstract Despite Icelandic being a verb second language (V2)…

This Tuesday 1st November at 14-15.15 (Utrecht time) Sonia Cyrino (University of Campinas) will be presenting a talk entitled ‘More on Negation in Brazilian Portuguese’. If interested in attending, please contact the RoLinc organizers for the Zoom link.   Abstract: It has been shown in several works (Schwenter 2005, Cavalcante 2007, 2012, Biberauer & Cyrino 2009, Cyrino & Biberauer 2009, Teixeira…

Masha Polinsky will give a lecture on heritage languages during her stay in Paris next week on Wednesday, in the Structures Formelles du Langage lab. The seminar will be on Wednesday 26 from 4pm Paris time, and it will be hybrid. If interested in attending, please contact Elena Soare to ask for the link. More…

Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the ERC Microcontact, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be organised in Paris on October 20-21 within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator Elena Soare,…

Prudence de Pontbriand (University of Göttingen) will give a talk for the RoLinC on ‘Syntactic Optionality and null objects in Old French‘. If interested, please email the organizers