The new Syntax Interface Lectures season is starting next week. The speaker will be Riny Huijbregts (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Special and General Theory of Merge with special and general thanks to Noam” . The lecture will take place on Thursday, February 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06….

On April 4 2019 Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University) will give a Syntax Interface Lecture. Title: t.b.a.

The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7th, from 16:00 until 17:00 at Trans 10, room 0.19 (A. W. De Grootkamer). The speaker will be Myrthe Bergstra (Utrecht University), who will give a talk entitled “Micro-variation, contact and change: the absentive in Frisian and Dutch”. The abstract can be found on…

The 2018 Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lecture series will be closed magnificently by Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires), who will give a crash course entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.   The course handout is now available here: CRASH COURSE Andrés Saab. If you are attending the course, please bring it (we won’t be distributing…

On Monday 10 December Renato Miguel Basso and Giada Palmieri will give a ROCKY lecture with the title When “se” is not needed: lexical reciprocity and reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese.  Abstract Many Romance languages use items like “se” (French) or “si” (Italian) to express reflexivity or reciprocity. Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is another Romance language where the…