Ordinary Working Grammarian

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Morphology as Syntax 5 (University of Delaware, April 16 2027)

The LinguistList announcement for MaS 5 has been launched:

https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2781/

Please register here:

https://sites.google.com/udel.edu/mas5/registration?authuser=0

Morphology as Syntax 5
Short Title: MaS5
Theme: Reducing morphology entirely to syntax

Date: 16-Apr-2027 - 16-Apr-2027
Location: Newark, Delaware, USA
Contact: Benjamin Bruening
Contact Email: bruening@udel.edu
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/udel.edu/mas5/home

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 15-Jan-2027

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

CUNY Linguistics Colloquium (September 3, 2026)

We're excited to welcome Professor Chris Collins (NYU) for the first Linguistics Colloquium of the semester!

Sep 3, 2026, 4:15 PM (ET)

Room 9207 or Zoom.

Talk: A Merge-Based Approach to Argument Structure

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuGYUXixDN-7tn_9YlQftyNqC8yDRMWDjYU7OpaVzT1VQtxg/viewform

Title: A Merge-Based Approach to Argument Structure

Abstract: This talk outlines the Merge-based approach to argument structure

developed in Collins 2024 (updating, defending and extending Collins 2005).

The predictions of the Merge-based theory of implicit arguments will

be compared to the predictions made by non-Merge based theories.

Collins, Chris. 2024. Principles of Argument Structure: A Merge-Based

Approach. MIT Press, Cambridge.

(More information about the speaker can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gsH996pk)

Book Notice: The Proof in the Code (2026)

Hartnett, Kevin. 2026. The Proof in the Code. Quanta Books.

Merge: Past, Present, and Future (talk on November 6, 2026)

Here is the announcement of my talk about Merge in the Reflections talk series on November 6, 2026. I also paste the registration link for those interested.

Registration