Departmental talk, 2/14 – Zheng Shen

Please join us for a talk by Zheng Shen (Goethe University Frankfurt). Coordinates: Thursday 2/14 at 3:30pm in Peterson Hall, room 116 Title: What we can...
February 11, 2019

Nico Baier at UofT

Postdoctoral researcher Nico Baier was at the University of Toronto last week where he gave an invited talk "Unifying anti-agreement and wh-agreement."
December 11, 2018

Junko Shimoyama at Ottawa

Junko Shimoyama gave a colloquium talk on Friday, Nov. 2 at the University of Ottawa, on positively biased negative polar questions in Japanese...
November 5, 2018

Colloquium, 11/2 – Nico Baier

Speaker:  Nico Baier Date & Time: November 2, 3:30pm Place:  Education Bldg. rm. 211 Title:  Unifying anti-agreement and wh-agreement Abstract: In this talk,...
October 29, 2018

2018–2019 colloquia

We are happy to share our colloquium schedule for the upcoming academic year. As always, colloquia will take place Fridays at 3:30, rooms TBA....
September 4, 2018

Daniel Pape colloquium: April 13

Daniel Pape (McMaster University) will be giving a talk entitled "Linking speech production to speech perception: A cross-linguistic comparison of the phonological voicing...
April 9, 2018

Colloquium: Sharon Goldwater, 01/12

Sharon Goldwater from the University of Edinburgh will be giving a talk entitled Bootstrapping Language Acquisition as part of the McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series...
January 8, 2018

Jessica Coon to UMass

Jessica travels to Amherst later this week to give a colloquium talk at UMass. The title of her talk is: "Building verbs in...
April 10, 2017

Colloquium, 3/17 – Stephanie Shih

Please join us for the next talk in our 2016–2017 colloquium series: Speaker:  Stephanie Shih (University of California Merced) Date & Time: March 17th...
March 13, 2017

Colloquium, 2/17 – Boris Harizanov

Speaker:  Boris Harizanov (Stanford University) Date & Time:  February 17th at 3:30 pm Place:  Education Bldg. rm. 433 Title:  On the nature of syntactic head movement...
February 13, 2017

Colloquium, 2/3 – Jeremy Hartman

Speaker:  Jeremy Hartman (UMass Amherst) Date & Time: February 3rd at 3:30 pm Place:  Education Bldg. rm. 433 Title:  Negation and factivity in...
January 30, 2017

Colloquium, 1/20 – Dan Lassiter

Speaker:  Dan Lassiter (Stanford University) Date & Time: January 27th at 3:30pm Place:  Education Bldg. rm. 433 Title:  Epistemic language in indicative and counterfactual conditionals Abstract:  In this...
January 23, 2017