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Time and Location
Confirmed Speakers and Dates
Meeting with Speakers
Directions
Of Related Interest
Past and Future Colloquia
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Time and Location

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

 

Confirmed Speakers and Dates

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

March 9 Jacek Witkos University of Poznan "WH-movement, Reconstruction and Condition C Effects in Polish"
March 14 (**),

Richard Kayne

New York University

"Questions of Constituents and Structure"(*)
April 9 Postponed

Richard Kayne

New York University

"Questions of Constituents and Structure"(*) postponed

April 13

Elena Herburger

Georgetown University

"Even in NPIs and as NPI""
April 20 Jaye Padgett University of California "Contrast, allophony, and sound change"
April 27 Julie Sedivy Brown University " Explaining rapid effects of discourse context on language processing"
April 30 (***)

Richard Kayne

New York University

"Questions of Constituents and Structure"(*)
May 8,
2:00 pm, Jimenez 0103
Irene Kraemer University of Delaware " Scope of indefinites at ages 4 to 7
May 9
Postponed
Friedericke Moltmann University of Liverpool "Nominalizations"Postponed

(*)This lecture series is being co-sponsored by the Linguistics Departments of two institutions, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland at College Park and the events will take place on both campuses.

(**) Wednesday, March 14: 11:00-12:30 in Maryland Room 0100, Marie Mount Hall, and 2:00-3:30 in Room 1140 Plant Science Bldg.

(***)Monday, April 30: 10:00-11:30 and 12:30-2:00. Armory 0116

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Graciela Tesan (graciela@wam.umd.edu). 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 also encouraged to attend the LAISEM (Logic and Artificial Intelligence) series on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and the Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series on Thursdays at 4 p.m. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to linguists.

 

Series Organizer

This is a student-run series coordinated by Graciela Tesan.