Time and Location

Talks are on Fridays at 2pm unless otherwise noted. The colloquium will be held in Marie Mount Hall, Room 1304. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Confirmed speakers:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (link to abstract and bio)
Oct 03	Megan Crowhurst	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	'Boolean Operations and Constraint Interactions in Optimality Theory'
Oct 10	Anna Roussou	University of Wales, Bangor/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge	'Control, A-Movement and Minimalism' (with Rita Manzini, Firenze/UCL)
Oct 31	Sergey Avrutin	Yale University, New Haven	'Root Infinitives as Descriptions of Eventualities'
Nov 7	Partha Niyogi	Bell Laboratories	'Computational Models for the Study of Historical Linguistics'
Nov 10 Monday	Heather van der Lely	Birkbeck College, London	'Characterizing Innate Language-Specific Abilities: Evidence from Grammatical Specific Language Impairment'
Nov 14	Colin Phillips	University of Delaware, Newark	'Linear Order and Constituency'
Nov 17 Monday	William Leonard	University of California, Los Angeles	'The Syntax of Weak Prepositions: Locality Constraints and Lexical Dependencies in English and Romance'
Nov 21	Luigi Burzio	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore	'The Inherency of Structural Case'

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Kleanthes Grohmann. The same goes for anyone who is interested in having dinner with the speaker and members of the department.

Directions

Of Related Interest

People who attend the Linguistics Colloquium Series are encouraged to also attend the LAISEM (Logic and Artificial Intelligence) series Tuesdays at 4pm, and the Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series Thursdays at 4pm. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to linguists.

Upcoming Events

Series Organizer

This is a student-run series coordinated by Kleanthes Grohmann.