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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · 6d

SALT 36 will be held at my alma mater, the University of Buenos Aires, on July 29-31 2026. This will be the first time the conference takes place in South America.

Abstract deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Link: saltconf.github.io/salt36/

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Aug 15

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

star-linguistics.org

Syntactic Theory and Research

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Aug 4

This week is the 𝐈𝐗 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚́𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚.
The program includes a tribute to my former professor, Daniel Romero.

Check out the full program here:

encuentro-de-gramatica-generativa.github.io/program/2025...

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Jul 21

Next week, I'll be talking about natural language processing with Python in a workshop at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA).

More info in www.instagram.com/p/DLs3G2pSZTi/

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · May 22

Our paper 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 has just appeared in The Linguistic Review. Matías Verdecchia and I demonstrate here that (apparent) island effects in clausal doubling constructions are a byproduct of the information structure of the pattern.

doi.org/10.1515/tlr-...

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · May 14

The linguist who discovered syntactic islands has passed away. Today marks a sad day for linguistics.

Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · May 14

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

John R. Ross - Wikipedia

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Apr 30

10 years ago. Four universities ago. Two world cups ago.

Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · Apr 29

Ten years ago, MPI-EVA's linguistics department (headed by Bernard Comrie, 1998-2015) organized its biggest conference, on "diversity linguistics". It was the final climax of a fantastic period. The programme of the 2015 conference is still available online: www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/...

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Apr 12

#Isogloss is #Q1!
So proud!

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Apr 8

I gave a talk yesterday on Rioplatense Spanish, its features, and how it relates to Italian languages at the Università degli Studi di Trento. Slides are linked below if you're curious!

github.com/cmunozperez/...

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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · Apr 6

Super cool work! The method used here is very exciting and suggests that some form of compositionality could potentially be widespread outside of language! How similar (in form and origins) this type of compositionality is to what we find in language remains I think an open question.

Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social · Apr 4

🚨New in @science.org🚨
With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

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Archiletras @archiletras.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢 ¡Cristina Sánchez López, nueva académica de la RAE!

📖 La filóloga y catedrática de la UCM ha sido elegida para ocupar la silla "p", tras el fallecimiento de Francisco Rico. Con una destacada trayectoria en gramática y sintaxis, su ingreso eleva a 12 el número de mujeres en la institución.

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Mar 25

Is it wrong to include content on language variety perceptions in my course just to discuss how the Iberian Spanish dub of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 makes Dr. Nick Riviera speak in the Rioplatense dialect?

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Mar 22

A brand-new special issue on #Isogloss: Romance minority languages: A challenge for linguistic theory, edited by Michela Russo and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn.
This is a really cool collection, as usual in full Open Access.
A great read for your weekend, enjoy!
revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Feb 25

Happy to share that the 𝗜𝗫 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮́𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮 (𝗘𝗚𝗚) will take place at my alma mater, Universidad de Buenos Aires, on August 6-8.

Invited speakers: Tonjes Veenstra, Daniel Romero, and Cintia Carrió

Abstract deadline: May 1

More info: encuentro-de-gramatica-generativa.github.io

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Feb 24

Last Friday, I gave a talk at OSU on stylistic applicatives in Chilean Spanish. I argued that these elements provide evidence for the thesis that anticausative 𝐒𝐄 is an expletive of the Voice projection.

I am thankful to Laura Stigliano for the invite.

Slides: github.com/cmunozperez/...

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Feb 10

Word cloud of the most used keywords on LingBuzz in 2024.

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Jan 17

In this manuscript, Matías Verdecchia and I discuss 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬, i.e., island-like effects that do not result from syntactic movement. We do so by analyzing the Spanish clausal doubling construction.

Feedback is very welcome!

ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Jan 6

Question for syntacticians: Does anyone know of references analyzing 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 in patterns like these?

(1) I bought the other book.
(2) I bought other book.
(3) *I bought book.

Thanks in advance!

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Jan 2

Jonathan Bobaljik discusses linguistics, morphosyntax, and universal grammar in this recent interview.

Clear scientific communication like this is key to making linguistic research more accessible to a wider audience.

Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · Dec 31

Podcast with Jonathan Bobaljik: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgV0...

#1039 Jonathan Bobaljik: Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, and Universal Grammar

YouTube video by The Dissenter

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Dec 25

“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

www.nytimes.com

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Roberta D'Alessandro @robertadal.bsky.social · Dec 14

RLLT23, Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 53 in Paris, is out!
This is a truly impressive volume, edited by Lisa Brunetti, Ioana Chitoran, and Alexandru Mardale, with papers by great senior and junior Romance linguists: revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Dec 9

Just out: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮́𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗼𝗹, edited by José María Oliver, Rosana Pascual, and Daniel Romero.

The book explores various aspects of Spanish grammar. I contributed a chapter on sentence-final connective discourse markers.

The book is free to download here: doi.org/10.24215/978...

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Dec 6

The Argentinian corner at GR2024.

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Dec 4

Basically, in a sentence like "no vi nada" 'I saw nothing', "nada" carries negative features that undergo f-movement to a preverbal position and are spelled-out as"no". This would be motivated on PF grounds.

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · Dec 4

M.T. Espinal's plenary talk at Going Romance 2024. She argues that negative concord is not an agreement phenomenon but (as I put it) a case of multiple exponence.

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