On 12 September, Brechje van Osch (Utrecht University) will give a syntax Interface Lecture with the title Interface vulnerability in heritage Spanish Abstract: This talk will be about interface phenomena in Spanish as a heritage language. The Interface Hypothesis (e.g. Sorace, 2000) predicts phenomena located at the interfaces between syntax and other domains to be…

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 December 11, the ERC Microcontact group will host the workshop Romance varieties in (micro-)contact and linguistic theory. All information can be find on the Microcontact website. The program will be announced soon.