Second Call for Papers BCGL 8: The grammar of idioms

CRISSP (KU Leuven) and UiL OTS (Universiteit Utrecht), as part of the joint NWO/FWO project ‘The Syntax of Idioms’, are proud to present the 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics: The grammar of idioms. Workshop description According to the Fregean principle of compositionality, the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of […]

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck in Paris

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck will give an invited research seminar talk at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Paris, France) on February 6, 2015. The title of the talk is ‘Quantity and quality in linguistic variation: the case of verb clusters’.

Call for Papers SLE Workshop: ‘The Syntax and Semantics of Numerals’

Numerals raise a host of linguistic issues of a syntactic, morphological, and semantic nature. From a syntactic point of view, they sit on the divide between lexical and functional categories, and occupy a fixed position in the extended nominal projection. Morphologically, they often constitute a productive and fairly transparent category, but their categorial status remains […]