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Linguistics Colloquia Series
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Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Friday, May 1, 2020
3 p.m.
Lattimore 513
Development and Maintenance of Black ASL at the Intersection of Race, Language, and Disability
Joseph Hill, assistant professor, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), Rochester Institute of Technology
Friday, February 28, 2020
3 p.m.
Dewey 2-110E
TBD
John Bailyn, Stonybrook University
Friday, February 7, 2020
3 p.m.
Lattimore 513
Morphological Doubling in Bantu Verb Suffixes
Brent Henderson, University of Florida
Friday, January 24, 2020
3 p.m.
Lattimore 513
The pragmatics of (non-)exhaustivity in questions
Morgan Moyer, Rutgers University
Friday, December 13, 2019
2 p.m.
Lattimore 513
Talking with Spirits: Eco-Intimacy and Spirit Exorcism in the Nigerian Sahel
Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology
Friday, December 6, 2019
2 p.m.–5 p.m.
Lattimore 513
Subject inversion in (Proto-)Bantu relative clauses
Fatima Hamlaoui, University of Toronto
Friday, October 18, 2019
3 p.m.–5 p.m.
Lattimore 513
A Theory of Kinds for Generics?
Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University
Friday, April 12, 2019
2 p.m.–5 p.m.
Dewey 2-110E
Exploring crosslinguistic variation in the expression of grammatical categories: an Amazonian case study
Adam Singerman, University of Chicago
Friday, February 22, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
The meaning of an exception
Dustin Chacón, University of Minnesota
Monday, February 18, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
A Syntactic Side of Word Formation
Asia Pietraszko, University of Connecticut
Friday, February 15, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
TBA
From syntax to postsyntax and back again
Martina Martinovic, University of Florida
Monday, February 11, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
Negation in Finno-Ugric verb clusters. Evidence for post-syntactic operations
Martin Salzmann, University of Leipzig
Monday, February 4, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Humanities Center Conference Room D. Rush Rhees Library
Sociolinguistic approaches to the study of multilingualism and language shift
Maya Abtahian
Friday, February 1, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Humanities Center Conference Room D
The exotic syntax of spoken discourse: Challenges from spontaneous narration in Wan (Mande)
Tatiana Nikitina
Monday, January 28, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Humanities Center Conference Room D
Capturing Linguistic Diversity: Grammatical Tone in Gyeli
Nadine Grimm
Friday, January 25, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Dewey 2-110E
Linguistics Department Colloquia Series co-sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences
Daniel Siddiqi, Carlton University
Friday, November 9, 2018
3:30 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall, reception to follow
Legal Interpretation by Big Data
Larry Solan, Brooklyn Law School
Friday, October 12, 2018
2 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Cognitive Science Dinner Talk
Benjamin Van Durme, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, April 16, 2018
6:15 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
366 Meliora Hall
Cognitive Science Dinner Talk
Aaron White, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
Thursday, March 22, 2018
6:15 p.m.–9 p.m.
366 Meliora Hall
Syntactic Projection and Distribution
Jim Blevins, Cambridge University
Friday, February 16, 2018
9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.
Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D
The Proper Approach to Definite Articles
Dr. Ora Matushansky, SFL (CNRS/Université Paris-8)/UiL OTS/Utrecht University
Monday, February 12, 2018
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D
Retrieving antecedents with the grammar: c-command, D-type pronouns and f-features
Keir Moulton, Simon Fraser University
Friday, February 9, 2018
9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.
Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D
Enriched Meanings
Professor Ash Asudeh, Oxford University & Carleton University
Thursday, February 1, 2018
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D
On the interaction between syntax and postsyntax in Uzbek (non-)verbal predicate formation
Vera Gribanova, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Monday, January 29, 2018
11 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D
Regionalizing Race: Exploring Sound Change and Racial Identity
Sharese King, Stanford University
Thursday, January 25, 2018
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D
Seenku argument-head tone sandhi: Morphosyntax, phonology, or both?
Laura McPherson, Dartmouth College
Friday, November 17, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
513 Lattimore
Prosodic Recursion and Syntactic Cyclicity inside the Word
Peter Guegkuezian, University of Rochester
Friday, November 3, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
513 Lattimore
Return to Richard
Ash Asudeh, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University & Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Oxford University
Friday, October 27, 2017
3:30 p.m.
Lattimore 513
Qualified Bare Nouns in Scopal Contexts in Yorùbá (Oládiípo` Ajíbóyè, University of Lagos)
Friday, September 22, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Hitting a point and wiping a region: The argument realization of manner verbs
Beth Levin, Stanford University
Friday, September 8, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Norma Tourangeau, ASL Program
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Morey 321
4th Symposium on American Indian Languages at RIT
Friday, April 7–Sunday, April 9, 2017
Rochester Institute of Technology
Jalon Begay, Navajo Language Program & Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Lattimore 513
Prof. Nadine Grimm, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
Friday, March 31–Saturday, April 1, 2017
NYASA (NEW YORK AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION)
Prof Abby Cohn, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
Friday, December 9, 2016
2 p.m.–4 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Zhong Chen, Rochester Institute of Technology
Friday, December 2, 2016
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Lattimore 513, River Campus, University of Rochester
Dr D. Robert Ladd, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Thursday, October 6, 2016
11 a.m.–Noon
513 Lattimore Hall
Dr Andries Coetzee, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Friday, September 30, 2016
3 p.m.–5 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Dr Gennaro Chierchia, Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
4:03 p.m.–6 p.m.
321 Morey Hall, River Campus