The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, November 7th, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 11:00. We will discuss Merchant (1998). Pseudosluicing: Elliptical clefts in Japanese and English. In: Alexiadou et al. (eds), ZAS working papers in linguistics Vol. 10. Berlin, ZAS, pp. 88–112. The paper is available at this link: http://home.uchicago.edu/~merchant/pubs/pssluicing.pdf

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Friday, October 18th, in Trans 10, 0.26, at 14:00. We will discuss Gallego (2018). Projection without agreement. The Linguistic Review 35(4): 601–623. The paper is available at this link: https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/tlir.2018.35.issue-4/tlr-2018-2002/tlr-2018-2002.pdf.

András Bárány (Leiden University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture on 12 December at 16:00. The title will follow.

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 25th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:30 (bring your lunch!). We will discuss Bobaljik (2008). Where’s Phi? Agreement as a Post-Syntactic Operation. In Harbour et al. (eds), Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules, pp. 295-328. Oxford: OUP. The paper is available at…

 On 9 October,  David Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, EHESS, PSL, CNRS) will give a ROCKY talk with the title Mereological choices for count nouns and mass nouns. Abstract: Many semantic theories about count nouns and mass nouns use mereological notions like part and sum. At the lexical level, count nouns are often deemed to…