In October this year Cambridge University Press will publish The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect, written by Henk Verkuyl (UiLOTS, Utrecht). The title of this book clearly alludes to the PhD defended in Utrecht on Friday 15 October 1971, called On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects. It was published in 1972 without substantial corrections….

The 2nd Heritage Language Syntax conference will take place ONLINE, hosted by Utrecht University, on 15-17 December 2021. Invited Speakers: Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam) Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University) Oksana Laleko (State University of New York – New Paltz) Brechje van Osch (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Michael Putnam (Pennsylvania State University) Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois…

On March 16 Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with the title Crossing phasal domains. Topic marking in Romance and beyond. Abstract and info here: http://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/seminars_weekly.php  

On Thursday 3 December, Silvia Terenghi will give a talk entitled Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles: Some markedness considerations for the ARU-Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar. The seminar will take place on Zoom (Zoom ID: 928 5479 4852). If you wish to attend please email Silvia Terenghi for the passcode. Abstract Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles typically…

On November 4, Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk for the Abralin ao Vivo series. The title of the talk is Microcontact: Language Change in Contact from a Microvariational Perspective. More info and abstract can be found here.