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StreamGram – Open Forum for Grammatical Theory

StreamGram is an Open Access resource that collects links to theoretical linguistics events in streaming : talks, lectures, conferences. If you are streaming a theoretical linguistics event, or if you wish to put the video of a talk online so that other people can find it easily, please read the instructions and send us an…

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Crash course in Formal Linguistics for PhDs

Crash course in Formal Linguistics for PhDs  Registration deadline: 25 November We’re happy to announce a crash course in formal linguistics for all PhD students at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, as well as potential participants from other departments and universities. This course will give young researchers who do not have previous training in Formal…

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Heritage Language Syntax Workshop

We are happy to announce the 1st Microcontact Workshop on HERITAGE LANGUAGE SYNTAX to be held at Utrecht University on 12-13 March 2020 Invited speakers – Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) – Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University) – Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) – Jason Rothman (UiT The Arctic University…

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Guest lectures reading group on Presuppositions – Matthew Mandelkern and Jacopo Romoli

On our next meeting, Matthew Mandelkern (Oxford) and Jacopo Romoli (Ulster U.) will present their recent paper: “We’ve discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!)” – joint work with Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz, to appear in Linguistics & Philosophy. Link to paper: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfop0776/Discovered.pdf Abstract: Is the mechanism behind presupposition projection and filtering fundamentally asymmetric or symmetric?…

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NEW!!! Reading group on PRESUPPOSITIONS

Have you ever wondered what presuppositions in linguistics are about? Now there is a chance to study the topic in a group of other interested researchers at the UiL OTS. The idea is to have an informal forum where interested UiL OTSers could carry out a free discussion on topics that are relevant to all…

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