Colloquia
Meghan Clayards at University of Maryland
Meghan Clayards returned from University of Maryland last week, where she gave a colloquium talk titled "Modulation of Phonetic Contrasts". The abstract is...
April 4, 2016
Jessica Coon at Minnesota and Concordia
Jessica Coon spent the last few days of break in Minneapolis, where she gave a colloquium talk, "Unergatives, antipassives, and Roots in Chuj"...
March 7, 2016
Colloquium, 2/8 – Stefan Keine
Speaker: Stefan Keine (UMass Amherst) When: Monday February 8, 3:30pm Where: Arts Building, 145 Title: Selective Opacity Abstract: In this talk, I develop a systematic account of...
February 8, 2016
Colloquium, 2/1 – Jim Wood
Speaker: Jim Wood (Yale) When: Monday February 1, 3:30pm Where: Arts 145 Title: What is Case? Abstract: Case marking, in languages that have it, is a...
February 1, 2016
Colloquium, 2/4 – Aron Hirsch
Speaker: Aron Hirsch (MIT) When: Thursday February 4, 3:30pm Where: MAASS Building, room 217 Title: A case for conjunction reduction Abstract: And can apparently conjoin constituents of...
February 1, 2016
Colloquium, 1/25 – Timothy J. O’Donnell
Speaker: Timothy J. O'Donnell (MIT) When: Monday January 25th, 3:30pm Where: Arts 145 Title: Productivity and Reuse in Language Abstract: A much-celebrated aspect of language is the...
January 25, 2016
Colloquium, 1/21 – Claire Halpert
Speaker: Claire Halpert (University of Minnesota) When: Thursday January 21st, 3:30pm Where: MAASS 217 (801 Sherbrooke Ouest) Title: It takes a village to raise a subject Abstract: In this...
January 18, 2016
Colloquium, 12/4 – Elizabeth Allyn Smith
Speaker: Elizabeth Allyn Smith (UQAM) Date & Time: Friday, December 4th at 3:30 pm Place: ARTS Bldg. room 260 Title: Just say 'no': Cross-linguistic differences in the felicity...
November 30, 2015
Jessica Coon at NYU
Jessica Coon traveled to New York last week where she gave a colloquium talk at NYU, titled "Two types of ergative agreement and...
November 23, 2015
Colloquium, 11/20 – Meaghan Fowlie
Speaker: Meaghan Fowlie (McGill) Date & Time: Friday, November 20th at 3:30 pm Place: ARTS Bldg. room 260 Title: Modelling and Learning Adjuncts Adjuncts have among their...
November 16, 2015
Colloquium, 11/6 – Mark Baker
Please join us for our next colloquium. Speaker: Mark Baker (Rutgers), presenting joint work with Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University) Date & Time: Friday, November 6th at...
November 2, 2015
Colloquium, 10/23 – Danny Fox
Speaker: Danny Fox (MIT), presenting joint work with Kyle Johnson (UMass) Date & Time: Friday, October 23rd at 3:30 pm Place: ARTS Bldg. room 260 Title: Quantifier...
October 19, 2015