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Semantic Debates
ROCKY seminar on reciprocity, collectivity and typicality When people say that a certain debate is “semantic”, they often mean that it concerns unimportant terminological issues. In this seminar we address some semantic debates that are hopefully more substantial. Imke Kruitwagen will review a debate between Godehard Link and Remko Scha on the origins of our…
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First two volumes of Open Generative Syntax are out!
The first two volumes of the Open Generative Syntax series, co-edited by Roberta D’Alessandro for Language Science Press, have appeared last December: – Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure (edited by Laura Bailey, Michelle Sheehan) – Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure (edited by Michelle Sheehan, Laura Bailey) The…
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UTL Lectures: ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU
We are proud to announce that Artemis Alexiadou, from the Humboldt University in Berlin, will inaugurate the Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series with a crash course on Heritage Languages and Linguistic Theory on February 19-21, 2018. Class 1 is based on this article. This is the handout of Artemis’s talk for the Syntax Interface lecture: Utrecht_ 19.2
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New paper on the role of theoretical linguistics in linguistic inquiry
Dear all, the paper Diversity of linguistic data and the integration of the language sciences that I wrote with Marc van Oostendorp has just been published on Frontiers in Psychology. The article is in Open Access. Comments and questions very welcome! If you publish a paper or you have a draft that you would like to…
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Time in Translation – Expert Meeting 2
The second expert meeting of TiT will be on tense and aspect in second-language acquisition. The meetings will consist of two to three 40-minute talks followed by discussion. We cordially invite you to attend the second meeting on Thursday 30 November, 10.00-13.00 (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06 (Ravesteijnzaal), 3512HM Utrecht). The focus of the meeting will…
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