The program of the Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation is out! You can find it here. Please, remember to send an email to microcontact AT uu.nl if you are planning to attend. Thanks!

The next SRG meeting will take place on Monday, June 11th, in Trans 10, 1.14, at 11:00. We will discuss D’Alessandro & Scheer (2015). Modular PIC. Linguistic Inquiry, 46, 593–624 A draft of the article is available at this link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001993

Next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 22nd. We will host a talk by Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina), with the title “Unifying personal and impersonal middles“. For further information: http://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/marika-lekakou-university-of-ioannina/

On 25 May, Alon Fishman from Tel Aviv University will give a talk on Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal This talk is concerned with a particular sentence-internal reading of  predicates like “different”, here called the *plural-dependent* reading. I argue for an analysis of this reading in terms of lexical reciprocity (Siloni 2012, Winter 2018). The plural-dependent reading…

On June 7-13 Utrecht University will host the Syntax and Variation Week, on the occasion of Roberta D’Alessandro and Marjo Van Koppen’s inaugural lectures. The program features two lectures and a workshop. You are all cordially invited, but please let us know if/which event you are planning to attend (see below). PROGRAM June 7, 4:15…