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Past Open to the public Events

December 7, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

On the origins of Cikunda, “a language without a land” (Presentation of the OriKunda project)

Rozenn Guérois, LLACAN (African Languages and Cultures Laboratory) - CNRS, Paris


November 30, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Experiments in Euphemism Detection

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University


October 26, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

My talk, others’ talk — Quoted speech and evidentials in Kotiria conversation

Kristine Stenzel, University of Colorado, Boulder


September 14, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

“Us” as “one”: First person plurals as impersonals in Mayan

Carol Rose Little, University of Oklahoma


April 7, 2022 · 7:32 pm ·

Julia Hochgesang – To be rescheduled

Julia Hochgesang, Gallaudet University


March 23, 2022 · 6:15 pm ·

Juliette Blevins – to be rescheduled

Juliette Blevins, The Graduate Center, City University of New York


March 2, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

How Food and Sex Delayed or Prevented the Emergence of Pidgins

Salikoko S. Mufwene, University of Chicago


February 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Form and Meaning in a Sign Language Lexicon

Naomi Caselli, Boston University


November 17, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Anna Feldman (to be rescheduled)

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University


November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

3rd Person Singular and Default Case in Child African American English

Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts Amherst


March 31, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Hearing Rachel Jeantel and Vernacular Speakers

Sharese King, University of Chicago


September 21, 2020 · 7:00 pm · via Zoom

Book Talk: Adventures in English Syntax

Robert Freidin, Linguistics


March 4, 2020 · 4:30 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Clausal Complementation as a Compatibility Relation

Ken Safir, Rutgers University


April 17, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Dedicated de se and complement type: an argument against Uniformity

Amy Rose Deal, University of California, Berkeley


February 20, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Doubly conditioned phonology in Cophonologies by Phase

Hannah Sande, Georgetown University


November 12, 2018 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm · Taplin Auditorium

“Concert de Musique Sambla”


November 7, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

“Tensions in the Theory of the Conditional”

Matthew Mandelkern, All Souls College, Oxford University


October 22, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

“Triggering Presuppositions”

Philippe Schlenker, Institute Jean-Nicod, CNRS and New York University


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