The Government Phonology Round Table is the principal meeting of all phonologists who work, or are interested, in the largest alternative to constraint-based phonological frameworks:...
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Stimulating and advancing fundamental research into our knowledge of language (grammar), including language description, linguistic analysis, and linguistic theorizing.
“I believe that a broad (as opposed to narrow) interpretation of what syntax (and grammar more generally) is about should regain its full interest. That students and researchers should be encouraged to tackle difficult analytical problems and curious generalizations, study them from as many angles as possible, in particular study their similarities and differences in broad varieties of languages, both at the micro- and macro-level, and wherever possible formulate hypotheses on the fundamental abstract principles that account for them."
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Clausal Complementation Across Categories
The Clausal Complementation Across Categories workshop took place June 19th-20th at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin, Germany. The workshop brought together a number of...
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Issues in the Study of Icelandic. The Húnaland Meeting
The workshop went ahead as planned on 23 May 2025 at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest (Hungary). It figured two talks...
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Funded workshops 2025
The Van Riemsdijk Foundation is very happy to announce that the following workshops have been selected for funding in the 2025 VRF funding round:
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Funded summer schools 2025
The Van Riemsdijk Foundation is very happy to announce that the following summer schools have been selected for funding in the 2025 VRF funding round:
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Funded summer schools 2024
The Van Riemsdijk Foundation is very happy to announce that the following summer schools have been selected for funding in the 2024 VRF funding round:
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Funded workshops 2024
The Van Riemsdijk Foundation is very happy to announce that the following workshops have been selected for funding in the 2024 VRF funding round:
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VRF funds new syntax journal
The Van Riemsdijk Foundation is proud to be one of the funding agencies for Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR), an open-access journal that publishes a wide...
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Testimonial: summer school in linguistic fieldwork, data annotation, and quantitative analysis
The 21st Salos Summer School and Conference, also known as Academia Grammaticorum Salensis, was held in Antalieptė, Lithuania, from 21 to 27 July 2024. For...
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Testimonial: workshop on microvariation and microchange in the Scandinavian languages
The workshop Microvariation and Microchange in the Scandinavian Languages (MMSL) set out to bring together both junior and senior researchers with new insights into variation...
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Testimonial: workshop on the Afroasiatic middle t-morpheme
The workshop on the Afroasiatic Middle t-Morpheme was held over two days on the 8-9 of May 2024 at the University of Edinburgh. Goal of...
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Testimonial: summer school in Uralic formal linguistics
The first Summer School in Uralic Formal Linguistics (SShUFL) was held at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest on August 21-26th, 2023....
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Testimonial: workshop on compositionality and the crosslinguistic variation of complement coercion
Our workshop “Compositionality and the crosslinguistic variation of complement coercion” was a success. We had 8 talks which we decided to distribute over 2 days,...
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Testimonial: EGG summer school 2023
The 2023 EGG school, held in Novi Sad, Serbia, once again covered a wide range of topics in phonology, semantics, and syntax, as well as...
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Testimonial: workshop on homogeneity and non-maximality in plural predication and beyond
The goal of the 2nd Workshop on homogeneity and non-maximality in plural predication and beyond was to bring together as many new perspectives on the...
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