On Monday, October 22, the MicroContact team and the Indo-Aryan Microvariation team of the Indian Institute of Technology Dehli (IITD) will present their works on linguistic microvariation. The Symposium will take place from 12:00 to 14:45 (CET). You can follow the event via Skype Meeting. You can find more information on the Microcontact website, at this page.

The next Syntax Reading Group meeting will take place on Thursday, October 25th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Gallego (2017). Remark on the EPP in Labeling Theory: Evidence from Romance. Syntax, 20(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12139 The paper is available at this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/synt.12139 

On 17 October, Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) will give a SIL talk entitled On the core significance of the periphery: an Afrikaans case study. This talk is part of the Syntax Interface Lecture Series, and will complement the UTL lecture series on Three factors, variation, contact  that Theresa will give on 16-18 October. You can…

The next SRG meeting will take place on Thursday, October 11th, in Trans 10, 0.51, at 11:00. We will discuss Alexiadou & Lohndal (2018), Units of Language Mixing: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Front. Psychol. 9:1719. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01719. The paper is available at this link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01719/full.

We are happy to announce that on Monday, October 22, Jos Tellings (UiL OTS, Utrecht University) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. 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. We hope for a full house! Date: Monday,…