JIM McCLOSKEY GIVES INVITED LECTURE IN BELGIUM

Jim McCloskey travelled to Ghent, in Belgium, to present a paper at GIST 6, which was held at Universiteit Gent between October 17th and October 19th. GIST 6 consisted of two back-to-back workshops, one on complementizer agreement and one on subject positions. Jim’s paper (Objecthood in Irish and the Origin Point of Subjects) was an invited contribution to the second. (See the handout here!) Besides enjoying the workshops and the beauty of the city, Jim had a chance to re-connect with old Santa Crucians Karen Lahousse, who was an LRC visitor in the spring of 2009 and now has a faculty position in Linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) and who also presented a paper at the workshop, and Karen De Clercq, who is a doctoral student affiliated with the GIST project and who was an LRC visitor in 2011-12.