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 Mayfest debriefing
Wed,14 May Chizuru Nakao and Atakan Ince practice talks:(Nakao) On focus of negation ; (Ince) On Right Node Raising
Planned Speaker Dina Kapetangianni (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) TBA