Department of Linguistics

Syntax Lunch

The Syntax Meetings provide an opportunity for graduate students and visitors to present their research in syntax and semantics. The papers could be works-in-progress or as polished as conference presentations. You will be able to present for an hour, but expect many interuptions and questions.

Spring 2008 Schedule

Meetings are held in 1108B Marie Mount Hall
Tuesdays at 12:30pm, except where noted in green

5 February [No Syntax Lunch]
12 February [Open]
19 February Chizuru Nakao and Shiti Malhotra PLC practice talks: (Nakao) When 'What' Means 'Why': On Accusative Wh-adjuncts in Japanese,(Malhotra) Quantifier Induced Barriers and Wh-movement
26 February So-One Hwang and Johannes Jurka ECO5 Practice talks 1: (Hwang) Possible impossible extraction out of Complex-NP islands , (Jurka) Perfect Identity in Sluicing
4 March Alex Drummond ECO5 Practice talks 2: Reconstruction and English PPs
11 March [Open]
18 March [No Syntax Lunch] Spring Break
25 March [Open]
1 April [Open]
8 April [Open]
15 April Dave Kush Informational Isthmuses: On the Topic of Clefts and Relative Clause Islands
22 April Jeffrey Lidz Island introducing reflexives in Kannada
29 April Atakan Ince 895 defense: Non-Wh Phrases in Sluicing in Turkish
6 May [No Syntax Lunch]
13 May Chizuru Nakao and Atakan Ince practice talks
20 May speaker?
Planned Speaker Dina Kapetangianni (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) TBA

Previous Schedules