There are no upcoming events at this time. Please check back for future events.

Past Lecture Events

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


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


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

Operational opacity at the clausal middlefield

Asia Pietraszko, University of Rochester


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


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


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)


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

Is prediction multilevel grammatical inference?

Dave Kush, University of Toronto


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

Information structure insights from sign language anaphora

Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University


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


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


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

Structuring Itelmen Word Order

Jonathan David Bobaljik, Harvard University


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

Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects

Julie A. Hochgesang, Gallaudet University


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


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

Conceptual arguments for ellipsis as null exponence

Craig Sailor, Trinity College Dublin


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

The role of demonstratives across languages

Dorothy Ahn, Rutgers University


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


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


Humanities Council Logo
Italian Studies Logo
American Studies Logo
Humanistic Studies Logo
Ancient World Logo
Canadian Studies Logo
ESC Logo
Journalism Logo
Linguistics Logo
Medieval Studies Logo
Renaissance Logo
Film Studies Logo