We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 22, Nadine Theiler (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht, with the title ‘Choosing additive particles in wh-questions’. LUSH is short for Leiden-Utrecht Semantic Happenings, and these talks are aimed at everyone (so including RMA students) with a keen interest in semantics….

Next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Monday, May 7th. We will host a talk by Anna Volkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), with the title “Subject encoding in participial relative clauses”. For further information: http://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/anna-volkova-national-research-university-higher-school-of-economics-moscow/

Update: As opposed to what previously announced, the next SRG meeting will take place on Monday, May 14th, in Trans 10, 1.14, at 11:00. We will continue discussing Chomsky (2008). On Phases. In Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, eds. R. Freidin, C. Peregrín Otero and M. L. Zubizarreta, 133-166. Cambridge, MA:…

The Workshop The peculiarities of Binding in Russian will take place in honor of Petya Zubkov, on the occasion of his doctoral degree. If you want to dive deeper into contemplating binding in Russian, we gladly invite you to the join the workshop. Please see the program below. Time Speaker Title 15.00-15.05 Eric Reuland Welcome 15.05-15.45…

NEW TIME AND PLACE! On April 17, Matilde Marcolli, professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, will give a talk on The Geometry of Syntax. Abstract Chomsky’s “Principles and Parameters” model proposes that syntactic structures can be encoded into a set of binary syntactic parameters. A main problem in this approach is identifying…