T. Florian Jaeger (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Univ. of Rochester) will be visiting next Thursday and Friday, May 7-8. He will be giving a talk in the Language, Cognition and Computation Workshop (abstract to come) on Friday at 3:30 in the Karen Landahl Center.
He will also be giving two statistics tutorials: One (Thursday) on mixed models (linear and logit) and how to run/read them in R; and one (Friday) consisting of Q&A.
Alan Yu will be giving a colloquium at SUNY Stony Brook this Friday, May 1. The title of his talk is “Toward a rational account of channel bias.”
Spring 2009 colloquia are off and running. This full and final season of talks in the 2009 colloquium series began on April 2 with by MIT’s Adam Albright on “Rabbitometry vs. rabbitography: phonetic faithfulness and affix-by-affix differences in derived words.”
Coming up in the following weeks are several other fantastic speakers, including
April 30: Teresa Satterfield, University of Michigan
May 14: Nick Fleisher, Wayne State University
May 21: Ryan Shosted, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
May 28: Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers University
June 4: Rob Podesva, Georgetown University
Per custom, colloquia are held on Thursday afternoons at 3:30 in Cobb 201. We look forward to these visits, and hope many of you will join us!
Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows:
March 16 (Location: Harper 140)
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1-1:30 |
Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda |
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1:30-2 |
Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign |
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2-2:30 |
Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean |
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Break |
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3-3:30 |
Pat Rich: French expletive negation |
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3:30-4 |
Luisandro Mendes De Souza: Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese and the Verbal Domain |
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4-4:30 |
Pete Klecha: The Modality of English Futures |
March 17 (Location: Harper 130)
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9-9:30 |
Andy Dombrowski: Albanian-Slavic Phonological Contact |
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9:30-10 |
Juan Bueno Holle: Reference-tracking in Isthmus Zapotec |
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10-10:30 |
Alice Lemieux: Washo Bipartite Stems |
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Break |
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11-11:30 |
Max Bane: Grammatical Correlates of Variation in the English Dative Alternation |
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11:30-12 |
Yaron McNabb: Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic |
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12-12:30 |
Susan Rizzo: Grandfather Effects and Derived Environment Effects in Harmonic Grammar |
University of Chicago Linguistics Colloquium
Keren Rice, University of Toronto
What determines morpheme order in the Athapaskan verb?
March 5, 3:30-5:00pm, Cobb 201
Abstract:
The surface order of morphemes in the verb word of Athapaskan languages has traditionally been considered to be idiosyncratic, stipulated by a template. In Rice 2000 I argued that what I called semantic scope plays an important role in the ordering of morphemes. Here I extend the account of morpheme ordering in the verb word, focusing on a series of problems that arise if scope alone is involved. I argue that if phonological factors are also taken into account, a systematicity to the complexities of morpheme ordering in the verb emerges, with morphemes being segregated by their phonological shapes, and, within these phonologically determined groups, scope plays a major role in the ordering of morphemes. I examine the principles that control the ordering in light of recent claims that functional principles such as parsability are key to morpheme ordering.
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After our holiday hiatus, this year’s colloquium series resumes with the first of four (so far) scheduled talks for the Winter quarter. Tania Ionin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be presenting on “The scope of English indefinites: an experimental investigation” (abstract here).
As usual, this talk will take place on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Cobb 201, with department tea immediately following. We hope to see many people there as we kick off another quarter!