Maria Polinsky Colloquium
Maria Polinsky
Harvard
Covert A-movement: Backward raising and beyond
Friday, May 2, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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colloquia
May 1, 2008
Kie Zuraw Lecture
Kie Zuraw
UCLA
Natural and unnatural generalizations: early results from a Hungarian wug test
(Joint work with Bruce Hayes, Zsuzsa Londe, and Péter Siptár.)
Friday, May 2, 1:30 pm, in the Partee Room
April 17, 2008
Mark Johnson Colloquium
Mark Johnson
Brown
Bayesian models of language acquisition or Where do the rules come from?
Friday, April 18, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
[Thanks Joe!]
April 10, 2008
Susi Wurmbrand Colloquium
Susi Wurmbrand
UConn
Thoughts on the syntax and semantics of invinitival tense
Friday, April 11, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
April 3, 2008
Jason Merchant Colloquium
Jason Merchant
University of Chicago
Explorations of the dark side of ellipsis
Friday, Apri 4, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
March 6, 2008
Julie Sedivy Colloquium
Julie Sedivy
Brown University
Gricean inferencing within an incremental processing system
Friday, March 7, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
February 28, 2008
Joan Mascaro Colloquium
Joan Mascaró
Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona
Phonological and morphological effects of asymmetrical DP concord
Friday, February 29, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
February 14, 2008
Veneeta Dayal Colloquium
Veneeta Dayal
Rutgers
Free choice Any: Two recalcitrant problems
Friday, February 15, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
January 31, 2008
Tentative Colloquium Schedule
Colloq Guru Joe Pater has released the tenative colloquium schedule for the semester:
Feb 29 |
Joan Mascaró |
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Feb 15 |
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Mar 7 |
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Apr 4 |
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Apr 11 |
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May 2 |
[Thanks Joe!]
December 6, 2007
Roger Schwarzschild Colloquium
Roger Schwarzschild
Rutgers
November 29, 2007
Donca Steriade Colloquium
Donca Steriade
MIT
Cycle and pseudo-cycle in Romanian
Friday, November 30, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-24
November 15, 2007
Hans Broekhuis Colloquium
Hans Broekhuis
Leiden University
Holmberg's Generalization: Blocking or push up
Friday, November 16, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
November 8, 2007
Joe Pater Colloquium
Joe Pater
UMass Amherst
Harmonic Grammar with Harmonic Serialism
Friday, November 9, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
November 1, 2007
An Evening of African American English
October 11, 2007
October 4, 2007
Freeman Lecture Today
Undergrad Meeting with Geoff Nunberg
Following today's Freeman Lecture, Geoff Nunberg's What Words Can Teach, there will be a smaller informal gathering immediately after the talk for undergraduate linguistics students (majors, minors, interested others). It's chance to meet a famous linguist and radio personality, and there will be cider and donuts as well. This event will take place immediately after the talk in Bartlett 35. It will finish by 6:00 pm.
You're encouraged to arrive with questions for Geoff. The talk will undoubtedly stimulate ideas, but he's worked on a wide range of issues, so you might want to ask about things not covered in the talk. For example, he was an expert witness in the case to cancel the Washington Redskins trademark on their name, he has written about how analysis of the usage of the words "War" and "Terror" can shed light on current political discourse, and much more.
All are welcome!
[Thanks Joe!]
September 27, 2007
Freeman Lecture
September 20, 2007
Anastasia Giannakidou Colloquium
Anastasia Giannakidou
University of Chicago
Polarity Sensitivity: How the labor is divided between syntax/semantics and pragmatics
Friday, September 21, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-25
Party after at Chris P's house.
Freeman Lecture October 4
Geoff Nunberg will deliver the Freeman Lecture at 4:00 pm on October 4 in Bartlett 65.
What words can teach
Over the last century, "philology" has gone from the name of a central historical method in the humanities to an antiquated name for historical linguistics. Now, the advent of extensive online corpora promises to breathe new life into the philological enterprise. We can track the origin and development of words more accurately, rapidly, and in greater detail than was ever possible before and capture nuances of meaning that we could previously talk about only impressionistically.
September 13, 2007
Fall Colloquia
The following are confirmed colloquia for the semester. We expect also to hear talks from Charles Yang and Hans Broekhuis. Updates and confirmations later in the semester.
| Sep 21 | Anastasia Giannakidou |
| Oct 4 | Geoff Nunberg (Freeman Lecture) |
| Nov 30 | Donca Steriade |
| Dec 7 | Roger Schwarzschild |
| Dec 14 | Veneeta Dayal |
[Thanks Joe!]
August 30, 2007
Freeman Lecture October 4
Geoff Nunberg will deliver the 6th Annual Freeman Lecture on October 4, at 4:00 pm.
May 3, 2007
April 26, 2007
Rickfords Special Lecture
Angela and John Rickford, April 27 --- reception at 4:00 pm, talk at 4:30 pm, School of Management Room 137.
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April 19, 2007
Rickford Lectures
Angela and John Rickford, April 27 --- reception at 4:00 pm, talk at 4:30 pm, School of Management Room 137.
[Thanks Barbara Z.P.!]
April 12, 2007
Freeman Lecture Postponed
Today's Freeman lecture has been postponed until September.
April 5, 2007
Paul de Lacy Colloquium
Paul de Lacy
Rutgers
Preliminaries to a theory of glossolalia
Friday, April 6, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
Freeman Lecture: Geoff Nunberg
March 29, 2007
Ioana Chitoran Colloquium
Ioana Chitoran
Dartmouth College
Does perceptual recoverability play a role in the phonological grammar? A possible answer from Georgian
Friday, March 30, 4:00 pm, Machmer E-37
Please note the later start time
March 1, 2007
Talk by John and Angela Rickford
John Rickford (Stanford) and Angela Rickford (San Jose State)
From outside agitators to inside implementers: Improving the literacy education of African American Vernacular and Creole speakers
Friday, April 27, 4:00 pm, SOM 137
This talk is sponsored by CSAAL.
February 22, 2007
February 15, 2007
Peter Alrenga Colloquium
Peter Alrenga
UC Santa Cruz
Different, Same, Like, and the semantics of qualitative comparison
Friday, February 16, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
February 8, 2007
Jessica Rett Colloquium
Jessica Rett
Rutgers University
The distribution of evaluativity
Friday, February 9, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
February 1, 2007
Valentine Hacquard Colloquium
Valentine Hacquard
Partee Visiting Professor in Semantics, UMass Amherst
On the event-relativity of modals
Friday, February 2, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
November 30, 2006
November 16, 2006
Liina Pylkkänen Colloquium
Liina Pylkkänen
New York University
The Visual System and Morphology
(Joint work with Eytan Zweig, Suzanne Dikker and Hugh Rabagliati)
November 9, 2006
Peggy Speas Colloquium
Peggy Speas
UMass Amherst
Evidentials, embedding and the acquisition of theory of mind
Friday, November 10, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
November 2, 2006
Paul de Lacy Colloquium
Paul de Lacy
Rutgers University
October 5, 2006
Maribel Romero Colloquium
Maribel Romero
University of Pennsylvania
Some syllogisms with individual concepts
Friday, October 6, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
September 21, 2006
Pater, Potts, and Bhatt Colloquium
UMass Amherst Linguistics Department Colloquium
Joe Pater, Christopher Potts, and Rajesh Bhatt
UMass Amherst
Harmonic grammar with linear programming
Friday, September 22, 3:30 pm Machmer W-26
Anthropology Department Colloquium on Navajo
Anthony Webster
Southern Illinois University
When we walk north: Poetics, ironies, and discomforts in Navajo poetry and talk about 'the Return'
Monday, September 25, 3:30-5:00 pm, Machmer W-15
The talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Linguistics!
[Thanks Peggy!]
September 14, 2006
Current Fall Colloq Schedule
The current Fall 2006 GLSA colloquium schedule. All talks take place at 3:30 pm on Fridays, generally somewhere in Machmer.
| October 6 | Maribel Romero (UPenn) |
| November 3 | Paul de Lacy (Rutgers) |
| November 17 | Liina Pylkkänen (NYU) |
| December 1 | Sabine Iatridou (MIT) |
There will in addition be some colloquia by UMass Amherst Linguistics faculty, as a way of highlighting the new research projects that are happening in the department right now.
[Thanks Keir and Ilaria!]
August 31, 2006
Geoff Nunberg to Give Freeman Lecture
Geoff Nunberg has agreed to give the 2006-7 Freeman Lecture. Geoff is famous! He's the linguistic commentator for NPR's Fresh Air, he writes for the New York Times Magazine and Week in Review, and he was recently on The Colbert Report.
May 11, 2006
Edward Flemming Colloquium
Edward Flemming
MIT
The role of distinctiveness constraints in phonology
Friday, May 12, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
April 20, 2006
Danny Fox Colloquium
MIT
Free choice disjunction and innocent exclusion
Friday, April 21, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-21
April 6, 2006
Geraldine Legendre Colloquium
Geraldine Legendre
Johns Hopkins
On the typology of auxiliary selection
Friday, April 7, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
March 9, 2006
Colin Phillips Colloquium
Colin Phillips
University of Maryland
Friday, March 10, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
March 2, 2006
Norvin Richards Colloquium
Norvin Richards
MIT
Tagalog prosody and the cross-linguistic distribution of wh-in-situ
Friday, March 3, 2:30 pm, Machmer W-26
A reception and pizza party will follow in the lounge afterwards.
Kyle Johnson, Colloqs on Demand
Last week, the department found itself short one colloquium speaker. On very short notice, Kyle Johnson stepped into the spotlight to deliver 'Gapping isn't ellipsis'. Thanks Kyle!