GLOWing 2024/25: How do we learn about language?
This year’s GLOWing lecture’s topic is How do we learn about language? Every lecture will feature a speaker and a discussant working with different methodologies on different subfields. The lecture series aims to present different angles and perspectives of linguistic research, how different methodologies and foci guide our research, and how all of them are important for generative grammar and our understanding of natural language.

- Sandra Villata: The role of experimental syntax in linguistic theorizing
- Discussant: Shota Momma
- June 6, 2025
- YouTube
- Slides


- Athulya Aravind: How syntax grows: Limits of learning and learning the limits
- Discussant: Adriana Belletti
- May 16, 2025
- YouTube
- Slides Aravind
- Slides Belletti


- Jenneke van der Wal: Why we all need some fieldwork in our linguistics
- Discussant: Sjef Barbiers
- January 17, 2025
- YouTube
- Slides


- Andrew Nevins: Minoritized languages guiding linguistic theory
- Discussant: Jonathan Bobaljik
- October 11, 2024
- YouTube (re-recorded version)
- Slides


GLOWing 2023/24: Discoveries in generative linguistics
The topic of the first years GLOWing lectures is Discoveries in generative linguistics and features insights, and puzzles from different theoretical subfields. The lectures aim to foster communication between the subfields of theoretical linguistics and bring out why generative linguistics is important, invigorating, and relevant. The main foci of the first round of GLOWing lectures are:
- What you should know about subfield X? These lectures teach professionals from other generative subfields (semantics, phonology etc.) important tools and technologies of one subfield.
- What is exciting in subfield X? These lectures provide significant discoveries and results from one subfield.

- David Adger: Why is syntax local where it is and not where it isn’t?
- Discussant: Heather Newell
- May 16, 2024
- YouTube stream
- Slides


- Viola Schmitt: Constraints on Meaning
- Discussant: Marcel den Dikken
- March 15, 2024
- YouTube stream
- Slides


- Charles Reiss: Rational Phonology
- Discussant: Hedde Zeijlstra
- December 15, 2023
- YouTube stream
- Slides


- Laura Kalin: Morphology: from agglutinating to compli-freakin’-cated
- Discussant: Michelle Sheehan
- October 24, 2023
- YouTube stream
- Slides
