The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, September 27th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Lohndal (2013), Generative Grammar and Language Mixing. Theoretical Linguistics 39: 215-224. The paper is available at this link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274324203_Generative_grammar_and_language_mixing

The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting soon! This is the calendar for the fall season: October 8: Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies / University of Iceland), Violating V2 with two heads (or more): evidence from a polycephalous variety of insular Scandinavian October 17: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch…

On Friday August 31st, there will be a mini-workshop of the AThEME-project in Leiden, with the title Perspectives on heritage languages and minority languages: Language contact, maintenance and change. The program is here: Workshop 31 August 2018 Everybody is welcome!

On June 21, Norbert Corver will give the last UiL-OTS Colloquium lecture for this academic year. The title of the talk is Grammar Lore. All invited!

On June 9, the Meertens Instituut will host a workshop with the title “Parallels between Phonology and Syntax”. Although syntax and phonology at first sight seem to study very similar objects – modules of human cognition involved with the form of language – the two disciplines seem to have grown apart, employing formal tools that…