We are happy to announce that UiL-OTS will host two LUSH talks: On Wednesday, November 21, Miguel Santin (University of Groningen) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. Date: Wednesday, November 21, 11:00 – 12:30 Location: Utrecht, Trans 10, room 0.19 (A.W. de Grootkamer) Speaker: Miguel Santin (University of Groningen, https://www.rug.nl/staff/miguel.santin/) Title: Means and results:…

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,…

Reciprocal predicates in Italian, Dutch and Hebrew This mini-workshop will report recent findings of the ROCKY team (https://rocky.sites.uu.nl) on reciprocal predicates in three typologically different languages: Italian, Dutch and Hebrew. The two talks will discuss the semantics of reciprocal predicates and the SI construction in Italian, the reciprocal middle template in Hebrew, and the interpretation…

On December 14, the Time in Translation project will host the workshop GREAT 2018: Going Romance (Re-)Explores Aspect and Tense. The program will be announced soon. More information can be found on the TiT website.

On 25 May, Alon Fishman from Tel Aviv University will give a talk on Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal This talk is concerned with a particular sentence-internal reading of  predicates like “different”, here called the *plural-dependent* reading. I argue for an analysis of this reading in terms of lexical reciprocity (Siloni 2012, Winter 2018). The plural-dependent reading…