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Past Lecture Events

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


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



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


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

Form-based corpus analysis of signed languages

Kathleen Currie Hall, University of British Columbia


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

Hearing Rachel Jeantel and Vernacular Speakers

Sharese King, University of Chicago


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

Factive Relative Clauses in Wolof

Harold Torrence, UCLA


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


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

Why are sign languages iconic?

Carol Padden, University of California, San Diego


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

Compositionality or generalization?

Christopher Potts, Stanford University


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

Clausal Complementation as a Compatibility Relation

Ken Safir, Rutgers University


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