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Past Lecture Events

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

Program in Linguistics

October 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm1:30 pm · via Zoom

Translating Between Modalities: The Case Study of American Sign Language and English

Amelia Becker, Princeton University, Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Program in Translation


April 21, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

The role of tone in phrasing in Bemba and an initial tonal experimental study

Nancy Kula, University of Essex

Program in Linguistics

April 14, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Form-based corpus analysis of signed languages

Kathleen Currie Hall, University of British Columbia

Program in Linguistics

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

Hearing Rachel Jeantel and Vernacular Speakers

Sharese King, University of Chicago

Program in Linguistics

March 3, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Factive Relative Clauses in Wolof

Harold Torrence, UCLA

Program in Linguistics

October 28, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Fact vs. opinion: A psycholinguistic look at the interpretation of subjective adjectives

Elsi Miia Kaiser, University of Southern California

Program in Linguistics

October 14, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Why are sign languages iconic?

Carol Padden, University of California, San Diego

Program in Linguistics

September 30, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Compositionality or generalization?

Christopher Potts, Stanford University

Program in Linguistics

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

Clausal Complementation as a Compatibility Relation

Ken Safir, Rutgers University

Program in Linguistics

December 4, 2019 · 4:30 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Canonical and Non-canonical Questions

Donka F. Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz

Program in Linguistics

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

Program in Linguistics

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

Doubly conditioned phonology in Cophonologies by Phase

Hannah Sande, Georgetown University

Program in Linguistics

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

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy

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

Program in Linguistics

October 17, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

“Where Events Happen: Spatial Aspect and the Localization of Actions”

James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University

Program in Linguistics

September 26, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 E. Pyne Hall

“Linguistics Insights in Text Normalization”

Kyle Gorman, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Co-Sponsored by the Program in Cognitive Science

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