Category: colloquia

  • Bobaljik Colloquium on Thursday

    Getting ‘Better’: On Comparative Suppletion and Related Topics Jonathan Bobaljik University of Connecticut Location: Cobb 201 Time: 3:30pm I present and discuss four or five universals drawn from across-linguistic study of comparative and superlative morphology. Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse). These generalizations,…

  • CORRECTION: Bobaljik Colloquium Next Thursday (5/29)

    Getting ‘Better’: On Comparative Suppletion and Related Topics Jonathan Bobaljik University of Connecticut I present and discuss four or five universals drawn from across-linguistic study of comparative and superlative morphology. Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse). These generalizations, I contend, have a variety…

  • Hinterwimmer Colloquium on Thursday

    Different alternatives for topics and foci: Evidence from indefinites and multiple wh Stefan Hinterwimmer (joint work with Sophie Repp) Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwisenschaft, Berlin Thursday May 15, 2008 Cobb 201, 3.30- 5 pm In gapping, topical indefinites as well as wh-phrases can contrast with surface-identical antecedents if the contrast involved is the first of the…

  • González-Vilbazo and López Colloquium on Thursday

    University of Chicago, Linguistics Colloquium Syntactic phases and Codeswitching Kay-Eduardo González-Vilbazo and Luis López University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Thursday, May 1 2008 Cobb 201 Abstract Since Chomsky (1995) there has been ample debate on what exactly the role of little v is (see for instance Kratzer 1996, Marantz 1997 for two early proposals).…

  • 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)