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Linguistics Colloquia


Fall semester 2004, Linguistics Talks and other events


All talks will be held at 4:30 PM in Morrill Hall room 111 unless otherwise indicated.

  • Thurs, September 16: Tanya Matthews, Cornell
    Who's Nice?: Adolescent Girls and "Nice" at Millcreek High

  • Thurs, September 23: Nick Clements, CNRS, Paris
    The Role of Features in Sound Inventories

  • Thurs, September 30: Zeljko Boskovic, U. of Connecticut
    Floating Quantifiers, Economy, and the Clause/PP Parallelism Hypothesis

  • Thurs, October 7: John Colarusso, visiting scholar, Cornell
    Ergativity in the Caucasus

  • Thurs, October 14: John Bowers, Cornell
    Toward General Theory of Argument Structure and Grammatical Function Changing Morphology

  • Thurs, October 28: Marek Przezdziecki, Cornell
    Vowel Harmony and Coarticulation in Three Dialects of Yoruba: Phonetics Determining Phonology

  • Mon, November 1: Hotze Rullman, U. of British Columbia
    Narrow-Scope Indefinites and General Number

  • Thurs, November 11: John Colarusso, visiting scholar, Cornell
    Proto-Northwest Caucasian and Beyond: Historical Linguistics from a Caucasian Perspective
  • Thurs, November 18: William Poser, U. of Pennsylvania
    The Relationship Between Phonological Writing and Phonological Representation

  • Thurs, December 2: Jay Jasanoff, Harvard
    Reduplicated Preterites in Germanic

  • Thurs, December 9: William Baxter, U. of Michigan
    4:30 PM, G08 Uris Hall
    Old Chinese Reconstruction and Recently Excavated Texts

  • Fri, December 10: William Baxter, U. of Michigan
    12:00 PM, 111 Morrill Hall
    Probabilistic Methods in Historical Linguistics

  • Thurs, April 7: Arnim von Stechow, Universität Tübingen
    title TBA

  • Thurs, April 21: Miriam Meyerhoff, U. of Edinburgh
    title TBA

For information on hosting a speaker for the CLC, click here

Other colloquia of related interest:

Classics
Cognitive Studies
Philosophy
Psychology

Past events:
Spring 2004
2002/2003 academic year
Fall 2001
Spring 2002