On the 15th of September our new director Norbert Corver will inaugurate the 22-23 UiL-OTS (Institute for Language Science) Colloquium with a talk entitled There is plenty of manner!  All invited! Abstract There is plenty of manner in human life. When we do things, we often do them in a particular way. You wake up happily,…

The fifteenth installment of the BCGL (Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics) will take place in Brussels on October 6-7, 2022. Invited speakers: Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) Chris Collins (New York University) Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) Yining Nie (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) The program is available online at this link For further information, please check the…

On 23 September 2022, the TinT final project workshop will take place in Utrecht. You can find the program here. We hope to see you there, but don’t forget to register!

Isogloss has just published the 2nd “Inter-views”, i.e. a short interview to several linguists of different beliefs, on Cartography. The linguists who answered questions about syntactic cartography, its descriptive and predictive power, issues of selection and feature encoding, are Enoch Aboh, Guglielmo Cinque, Alice Corr, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Gillian Ramchand and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. A good pre-summer…

On Wednesday 15 at 10:15 Alberto Frasson will defend his dissertation with the title The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages The dissertation is part of the ERC project Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective You can follow the defense online at this link