The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A. W. De Grootkamer). The speaker will be Myrthe Bergstra (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Micro-variation, contact and change: the absentive in Frisian and Dutch”. The abstract can be found on…

The 2018 Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series will be closed magnificently by Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires), who will give a crash course entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.   The course handout is now available here: CRASH COURSE Andrés Saab. If you are attending the course, please bring it (we won’t be distributing…

On Monday 10 December Renato Miguel Basso and Giada Palmieri will give a ROCKY lecture with the title When “se” is not needed: lexical reciprocity and reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese.  Abstract Many Romance languages use items like “se” (French) or “si” (Italian) to express reflexivity or reciprocity. Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is another Romance language where the…

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, November 29th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Adger & Smith (2010). Variation in agreement: A lexical feature-based approach. Lingua 120 (5), 1109-1134. The paper is available at this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384109001107.

Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires) will give the next set of Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures. His crash course will be entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.    The course will take place on Monday 17, Tuesday 18, and Wednesday 19 at 11:00-13:00 in  Janskerkhof 13 0.06 (Stijlkamer) Attendance is free, but we…