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/

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-...

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/...

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?

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...

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/...