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/

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

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...

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/

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-...

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

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

#Isogloss is #Q1! So proud!

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/...

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.

📢 ¡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.

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?

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

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

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/...

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

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...

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!

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.

“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...

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

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...

The Argentinian corner at GR2024.

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.

Someone shared this job post with me. I can't decide between the joke about Cicero applying for the position or the one about all those Ancient Romans being replaced by AI.

Unsung perk of teaching at Universidad Austral: walking through a real botanical garden on the way to class.

Here’s the first version of our poster for Going Romance 2024! Using Chilean Spanish data, we argue that movement-based analyses of clitic reduplication face HUGE issues. However, agree-based analyses aren’t off the hook either. Full poster here: github.com/cmunozperez/...