Category: visits
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Enoch Aboh Colloquium on Friday
There will be a special colloquium next Friday from Enoch Aboh of the University of Amsterdam and MIT. The title of the talk is “A Typology of Adpositions” and you can find the abstract here: http://clml.uchicago.edu/svn/filedetails.php?repname=CLML+Repository&path=%2FPapers%2FPrePostpositionsChicago.pdf The talk will be held at the normal colloquium time in the normal colloquium location (3:30 in the CSL)
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Melchert Lecture on Thursday
The Department of Near Eastern languages and Civilizations and The Oriental Institute present: The Rise of Hittite Literacy: A Third Way H. Craig Melchert Professor of Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:00 noon The LaSalle Banks Room – Oriental Institute
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Arregi’s Colloquium on Thursday
Modularity in Morphology: The Case of Basque Finite Auxiliaries Karlos Arregi University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Thur, Feb 21 2008 3:30-5:00pm, Cobb 201 Many modern theories of morphology are highly modular: morphological phenomena with different properties are accounted for by separate modules of grammar. In this talk, I argue for a particular view of the modularity…
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Markman’s talk on Tuesday
On the parametric variation of case and agreement: implications for (non)-configurationality Vita Markman Simon Fraser University Henry Hinds [5734 S. Ellis Ave.] Room 101. Tues Feb 19, 2008 3:30-5:00pm In this talk I will argue that case and agreement features are subject to parametric variation and explore the consequences of this claim with a particular…
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Kandybowicz’s talk on Thursday
Sometimes Syntax is Syntax. Sometimes Syntax is Phonology Jason Kandybowicz Swarthmore College Thursday, February 14, 2008, 3:30-5:00pm Cobb 201 In recent years, the field of syntax has seen a shift toward explorations and explanations of syntactic phenomena cast in terms of the interfacing sub-systems of grammar; namely, the phonological and semantic components. This modus operandi…