Category: colloquia

  • Talk by Wagner on May 6

    Departmental Colloquium Information Structure Effects on Prosody: English vs. French Michael Wagner McGill University Cobb 201 2:30-4pm *NOTE NEW TIME* ABSTRACT: Germanic and Romance languages differ in how prosody is affected by information structure.  Ladd (2008), e.g., observes contrasts between English and Italian that reveal differences in how argument structure and  information structure affect prosody.…

  • Reminder about colloquium

    Due to job talks this month, the 2009-2010 colloquium series has had a delayed winter-quarter start. For all those waiting in eager anticipation, colloquia will finally resume next week, Thursday, February 25, with a talk by UChicago’s Katherine Kinzler (Psychology). More on her lab’s research can be found here. As usual, we’ll begin at 3:30…

  • Winter 2010 colloquia

    The Department of Linguistics will have its first colloquium of the (new) decade in a few weeks. For now, you can content yourself with our colloquium schedule for Winter quarter 2010 (abstracts available soon): February 25: Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago March 4: Craige Roberts, Ohio State University March 11: Marcela Depiante, University of Wisconsin-Eau…

  • Nick Fleisher colloquium on May 14

    Attributive Adjectives and the Semantics of Inappropriateness May 14, 3:30-5pm, Cobb 201 Nick Fleisher, Wayne State University In this talk I discuss the syntax and semantics of a previously unexamined English attributive adjective construction and its implications for the study of gradable adjectives in the positive degree. The construction, which I call the nominal attributive-with-infinitive…

  • Spring and colloquia are in the air

    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…