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Linguistics Colloquia


Winter/spring 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, January 29: Danny Abrams, Cornell Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
    Modeling Language Death


  • Thurs, February 12: Amanda Miller and Draga Zec, Cornell
    The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrastive Palatal Affricates

  • Thurs, February 19: Marisol del Teso Craviotto, Cornell
    Games People Play: The Expression of Desire in Dating Chat Rooms
  • Mon, February 23: Bridget Copley, U. of Southern California
    An Entailment of Aspectual Future Constructions
  • Thurs, February 26: Lisa Matthewson, U. of British Columbia (CLC)
    Cross-linguistic Variation and the Nature of Lexical Aspect
  • Tue, March 2: Cleo Condoravdi, (PARC and Stanford)
    3:00, B07 Morrill Hall (Computational Linguistics Lab)
    Moods and Modalities for Will and Would

  • Thurs, March 4: Abigail Cohn, Cornell
    Phonetics vs. Phonology, Revisited

  • Thurs, March 18: Rita Mathur, National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped (India)
    4:30, B09 Morrill Hall (Phonetics Lab)
    Phonetics and Phonology of Hindi

  • Mon, March 29: Maureen Stone, U. of Maryland
    4:30, 106A Morrill Hall
    Studying Tongue Motion with Ultrasound Imaging: Practical Applications

  • Tue, March 30: Maureen Stone, U. of Maryland
    3:30, B11 Morrill Hall (Phonetics Lab)
    Ultrasound Workshop

  • Thurs, April 8: Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell
    On Defining: It's Seldom just semantics

  • Thurs, April 15: Mary Beckman, Ohio State (CLC)
    The Ontogeny of Types of Phonological Representation

  • Sun, April 18: Department Talent Show and Potluck Supper
    1:00 to 5:00 PM, Big Red Barn

  • Mon, April 19: Jim Scobbie, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
    Flexibility and Variation in Phonological Systems

  • Tue, April 20: Jim Scobbie, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
    2:45, B11 Morrill Hall (Phonetics Lab)
    Workshop on articulatory data methodologies

  • Thurs, April 22: Yoshiyuki Moriyama and John Whitman, Cornell
    Japanese Empty Arguments Revisited

  • Thurs, April 29: Julie Legate, Yale (CLC)
    Case and Agreement in a Nonconfigurational Language

  • Fri, April 30: Julie Legate, Yale (CLC)
    12:20, 134 Goldwin Smith Hall
    Warlpiri Morphosyntax

  • Fri, April 30: Paul Kiparsky
    3:30, 111 Morrill Hall
    Blocking and Paraphrasis: The Case for Lexical Morphology

  • Sat/Sun, May 1 and 2: Cornell Symposium on Language Universals, co-sponsored by Cognitive Studies, Linguistics, and Psychology Departments

  • Mon, May 3: Ranko Bugarski, U. of Belgrade
    Language and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

  • June 5 to June 7: Third International Gender and Language Association Conference (IGALA3)

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