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Wed, 4/17 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Replicating the typology of linguistic inferences using non-words: From gestures to sound effects to emoji

Lyn Tieu, University of Toronto

Program in Linguistics

Thu, 3/28 · 7:30 pm8:30 pm · Maeder Hall Auditoriun

American Sign Language Storytelling with Peter Cook

Peter Cook, Columbia College Chicago

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 3/27 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Temporal Coordination as a Hallmark of Metrical Prominence Across Languages

Kathryn Franich, Harvard University

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 3/20 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Operational opacity at the clausal middlefield

Asia Pietraszko, University of Rochester

Program in Linguistics

Thu, 2/15 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

On two types of resumptive Ā-dependencies and feature-driven syntax

Matt Hewett, Georgetown University

Program in Linguistics

Thu, 2/8 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Louis A. Simpson International Building room A71

Computational sociolinguistics: How lexical meaning is dynamically constructed across partners and communities

Robert D. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Program in Linguistics

Thu, 2/1 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Locality and linguistic theory: The crucial role of African tone languages

Nicholas Rolle, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 1/31 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Is prediction multilevel grammatical inference?

Dave Kush, University of Toronto

Program in Linguistics

December 6, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Information structure insights from sign language anaphora

Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University

Program in Linguistics

November 29, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activism

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Haverford College

Program in Linguistics

November 13, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Sociolinguistic Challenges for Emerging Speech Technology

Nicole Holliday, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College

Program in Linguistics

September 29, 2023 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Structuring Itelmen Word Order

Jonathan David Bobaljik, Harvard University

Program in Linguistics

April 19, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects

Julie A. Hochgesang, Gallaudet University

Program in Linguistics


April 12, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Bua Comparative Project: Documentation and history of a language family of southern Chad

Pascal Boyeldieu, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer and Florian Lionnet, LLACAN-CNRS - Paris, France; Universities of Frankfurt, Bayreuth and Mainz, Germany; Princeton University

Program in Linguistics

March 29, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Conceptual arguments for ellipsis as null exponence

Craig Sailor, Trinity College Dublin

Program in Linguistics

March 8, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

The role of demonstratives across languages

Dorothy Ahn, Rutgers University

Program in Linguistics

March 1, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Variation in color expression in languages of Cameroon

Nadine Grimm, University of Rochester

Program in Linguistics

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