Dear students and colleagues, Next week, Jon Gajewski from UConn (Connecticut, USA) will visit UiL-OTS. He is an expert on negative polarity items and neg-raising. You can find more about his research on his webpage: https://jon-gajewski.uconn.edu/ He will give two crash courses and one seminar. You are all very much invited to join both the courses…

Dear all, Artemis Alexiadou’s UTL lectures are partly based on this article: Alexiadou (2018) Language variation and change: a case study of the loss of genitive Case in (Heritage) Greek Her Syntax Interface lecture ppt is here: Utrecht_ 19.2 (Those who attended the course can drop me an email if they wish to have the class notes)….

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, 1 March, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11:00. We will discuss Poletto (2009). Double auxiliaries, anteriority and terminativity.  The article is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10828-009-9024-x.pdf

ROCKY seminar on reciprocity, collectivity and typicality  When people say that a certain debate is “semantic”, they often mean that it concerns unimportant terminological issues. In this seminar we address some semantic debates that are hopefully more substantial. Imke Kruitwagen will review a debate between Godehard Link and Remko Scha on the origins of our…

  The first two volumes of the Open Generative Syntax series, co-edited by Roberta D’Alessandro for Language Science Press, have appeared last December: – Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure (edited by Laura Bailey, Michelle Sheehan) – Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure (edited by Michelle Sheehan, Laura Bailey) The…