SIL talk replacement: PhD defense and workshop for Silvia Terenghi

On the 27th of January at 2:15 pm Silvia Terenghi will defend her dissertation entitled Missing Person: Structure and change in Romance demonstratives (downloadable here from the 27th). The PhD defense will take place in the Academiegebouw.

In the morning of the 27th, there will be a Workshop in her honor, as customary. The workshop will be streamed on Teams (MS Teams (meeting ID: 389 574 602 358; password: MBxTFm))

Program

9:00–9:10 Welcome

9:10–9:40 Norbert Corver (Utrecht University) Decomposing Dutch temporal adverbs

9:40–10:10 Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University) Number marking in Marakwet

10:10–10:40 Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) The final stronghold of the infinitive: (Silent) modals in Romanian and the Romance and Greek dialects of southern Italy

10:40–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–11:30 Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University) Honorific pronouns and why they matter

11:30–12:00 Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø) North Sámi demonstratives