Linguistics Colloquia Series
Title forthcoming
Friday, November 1, 2024
Noon1:30 p.m.
Matt Faytak, University of Buffalo
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingDon’t wait for a change to happen: Find one!
Friday, September 13, 2024
Noon1:30 p.m.
Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingA Hockey-Based Persona: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Canadian English on American-Born Hockey Players
Friday, April 12, 2024
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Andrew Bray, University of Rochester
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingQuestion word distributivity: Which account works for which phenomenon?
Friday, April 5, 2024
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Mary Moroney, University of Rochester
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingCLS sponsored colloquium (title forthcoming)
Friday, March 29, 2024
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingInvestigating Chin Discourse Markers through Collaborative Fieldwork
Friday, March 22, 2024
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
J.C. Wamsley, University of Rochester
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingModeling progress: causal models and the imperfective paradox
Friday, February 16, 2024
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Prerna Nadathur, Ohio State University
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingWhat does it seem that hyperraising blocks?
Friday, February 2, 2024
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingRELATE-ing assimilation & dissimilation in syntax
Friday, October 27, 2023
Noon1:30 p.m.
Sandhya Sundaresan, Stony Brook University
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingRegular and Idiosyncratic Meaning in The Roots of Words
Friday, October 20, 2023
Noon2 p.m.
John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingLexical Representation, Lexical Semantics, and Syntax
Friday, October 13, 2023
Noon2 p.m.
John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingA Lexical Semanticist's Apology
Friday, October 6, 2023
Noon2 p.m.
John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingSeminar Series: Lexical Aspect, Word Categories, and Argument Realization
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
1:30 p.m.3 p.m.
John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Continue ReadingThe trees and the roots: The role of syntacticians in language documentation
Friday, September 29, 2023
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida
Lattimore 201
Continue ReadingLanguage ideology and pidginization in New Guinea
Friday, April 7, 2023
Noon1:30 p.m.
William Foley, Columbia University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingAnd what do you think language is? Language documentation and linguistic biases
Monday, April 3, 2023
10 a.m.11:30 a.m.
Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of ELDP and ELAR, Berlin
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingCausatives and High Applicatives: 2 Problems, 1.5 Solutions
Friday, March 3, 2023
Noon1:30 p.m.
Neil Myler, Boston University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingDerived Entities: Parallels Between Relativization and Nominalization
Friday, February 17, 2023
Noon1:30 p.m.
Emily Hanink, Indiana University Bloomington
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingIntoxication Effects on Bilingual Speech
Friday, February 10, 2023
Noon1:30 p.m.
Charles Chang, Boston University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingTBA
Friday, April 8, 2022
Noon1:30 p.m.
Laurel Perkins, University of California Los Angeles
TBA
Continue Reading“Isn’t she your mother?”: Learning the language of kinship in Datooga
Friday, April 1, 2022
9:30 a.m.11 a.m.
Alice Mitchell, University of Cologne
Via Zoom (Registration required)
Continue ReadingLubukusu object marking: at the interface of pragmatics and syntax
Friday, March 18, 2022
Noon1:30 p.m.
Michael Diercks, Pomona College
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingMorphological markedness and semantic interpretation in the nominal domain
Friday, March 4, 2022
Noon1:30 p.m.
Mary Moroney, University of Rochester
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingChange of state: from the BECOME operator to the mereotopology of events
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Louis McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingTBA
Friday, December 3, 2021
Noon
Ailis Cournane, New York University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingLearning speaker- and addressee-centered demonstratives in Ticuna
Friday, November 19, 2021
Noon
Amalia Skilton, Cornell University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingData management for linguists: maintaining organization, collaborations, and accessibility for yourself and the community
Friday, October 15, 2021
Noon
Kate Lindsey, Boston University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingFriday, April 23, 2021
Noon
Felix Ameka, Leiden University
Via Zoom (registration required)
Continue ReadingFriday, April 2, 2021
Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
Via Zoom (registration required)
Continue ReadingHow to Become a Direct/Inverse Language
Friday, February 12, 2021
Noon
Will Oxford, University of Manitoba
Via Zoom (registration required)
Continue ReadingRelating universal quantifiers and information structure in Besemah
Friday, February 5, 2021
2 p.m.
Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Zoom (email linguistics@rochester.edu for link)
Continue ReadingNatural language without semiosis
Friday, October 30, 2020
Noon
Omer Preminger, University of Maryland
Zoom (email linguistics@rochester.edu for link)
Continue ReadingThe lexical and compositional semantics of distributivity
Friday, October 16, 2020
Noon
Lelia Glass, Georgia Tech
Zoom (email linguistics@rochester.edu for link)
Continue ReadingTDB
Friday, May 1, 2020
3 p.m.
Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingDevelopment and Maintenance of Black ASL at the Intersection of Race, Language, and Disability
Friday, February 28, 2020
3 p.m.
Joseph Hill, assistant professor, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), Rochester Institute of Technology
Dewey 2-110E
Continue ReadingTBD
Friday, February 7, 2020
3 p.m.
John Bailyn, Stonybrook University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingMorphological Doubling in Bantu Verb Suffixes
Friday, January 24, 2020
3 p.m.
Brent Henderson, University of Florida
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingThe pragmatics of (non-)exhaustivity in questions
Friday, December 13, 2019
2 p.m.
Morgan Moyer, Rutgers University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingTalking with Spirits: Eco-Intimacy and Spirit Exorcism in the Nigerian Sahel
Friday, December 6, 2019
2 p.m.5 p.m.
Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingSubject inversion in (Proto-)Bantu relative clauses
Friday, October 18, 2019
3 p.m.5 p.m.
Fatima Hamlaoui, University of Toronto
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingA Theory of Kinds for Generics?
Friday, April 12, 2019
2 p.m.5 p.m.
Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University
Dewey 2-110E
Continue ReadingExploring crosslinguistic variation in the expression of grammatical categories: an Amazonian case study
Friday, February 22, 2019
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Adam Singerman, University of Chicago
Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
Continue ReadingThe meaning of an exception
Monday, February 18, 2019
10:30 a.m.Noon
Dustin Chacón, University of Minnesota
Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
Continue ReadingA Syntactic Side of Word Formation
Friday, February 15, 2019
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Asia Pietraszko, University of Connecticut
TBA
Continue ReadingFrom syntax to postsyntax and back again
Monday, February 11, 2019
10:30 a.m.Noon
Martina Martinovic, University of Florida
Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
Continue ReadingNegation in Finno-Ugric verb clusters. Evidence for post-syntactic operations
Monday, February 4, 2019
10:30 a.m.Noon
Martin Salzmann, University of Leipzig
Humanities Center Conference Room D. Rush Rhees Library
Continue ReadingSociolinguistic approaches to the study of multilingualism and language shift
Friday, February 1, 2019
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Maya Abtahian
Humanities Center Conference Room D
Continue ReadingThe exotic syntax of spoken discourse: Challenges from spontaneous narration in Wan (Mande)
Monday, January 28, 2019
10:30 a.m.Noon
Tatiana Nikitina
Humanities Center Conference Room D
Continue ReadingCapturing Linguistic Diversity: Grammatical Tone in Gyeli
Friday, January 25, 2019
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Nadine Grimm
Dewey 2-110E
Continue ReadingLinguistics Department Colloquia Series co-sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences
Friday, November 9, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Daniel Siddiqi, Carlton University
513 Lattimore Hall, reception to follow
Continue ReadingLegal Interpretation by Big Data
Friday, October 12, 2018
2 p.m.
Larry Solan, Brooklyn Law School
513 Lattimore Hall
Continue ReadingCognitive Science Dinner Talk
Monday, April 16, 2018
6:15 p.m.8:30 p.m.
Benjamin Van Durme, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
366 Meliora Hall
Continue ReadingCognitive Science Dinner Talk
Thursday, March 22, 2018
6:15 p.m.9 p.m.
Aaron White, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
366 Meliora Hall
Continue ReadingSyntactic Projection and Distribution
Friday, February 16, 2018
9:30 a.m.11 a.m.
Jim Blevins, Cambridge University
Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D
Continue ReadingThe Proper Approach to Definite Articles
Monday, February 12, 2018
11:45 a.m.1:15 p.m.
Dr. Ora Matushansky, SFL (CNRS/Université Paris-8)/UiL OTS/Utrecht University
Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D
Continue ReadingRetrieving antecedents with the grammar: c-command, D-type pronouns and f-features
Friday, February 9, 2018
9:30 a.m.11 a.m.
Keir Moulton, Simon Fraser University
Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D
Continue ReadingEnriched Meanings
Thursday, February 1, 2018
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Professor Ash Asudeh, Oxford University & Carleton University
Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D
Continue ReadingOn the interaction between syntax and postsyntax in Uzbek (non-)verbal predicate formation
Monday, January 29, 2018
11 a.m.1:15 p.m.
Vera Gribanova, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D
Continue ReadingRegionalizing Race: Exploring Sound Change and Racial Identity
Thursday, January 25, 2018
12:30 p.m.2 p.m.
Sharese King, Stanford University
Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D
Continue ReadingSeenku argument-head tone sandhi: Morphosyntax, phonology, or both?
Friday, November 17, 2017
3:30 p.m.5 p.m.
Laura McPherson, Dartmouth College
513 Lattimore
Continue ReadingProsodic Recursion and Syntactic Cyclicity inside the Word
Friday, November 3, 2017
3:30 p.m.5 p.m.
Peter Guegkuezian, University of Rochester
513 Lattimore
Continue ReadingReturn to Richard
Friday, October 27, 2017
3:30 p.m.
Ash Asudeh, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University & Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Oxford University
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingQualified 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
Continue ReadingHitting a point and wiping a region: The argument realization of manner verbs
Friday, September 8, 2017
3:30 p.m.5 p.m.
Beth Levin, Stanford University
513 Lattimore Hall
Continue ReadingNorma Tourangeau, ASL Program
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
7 p.m.9 p.m.
Morey 321
Continue Reading4th Symposium on American Indian Languages at RIT
Friday, April 7Sunday, April 9, 2017
Rochester Institute of Technology
Continue ReadingJalon Begay, Navajo Language Program & Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
9 a.m.10:30 a.m.
Lattimore 513
Continue ReadingProf. Nadine Grimm, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
Friday, March 31Saturday, April 1, 2017
NYASA (NEW YORK AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION)
Continue ReadingProf Abby Cohn, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
Friday, December 9, 2016
2 p.m.4 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Continue ReadingZhong Chen, Rochester Institute of Technology
Friday, December 2, 2016
3:30 p.m.5 p.m.
Lattimore 513, River Campus, University of Rochester
Continue ReadingDr D. Robert Ladd, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Thursday, October 6, 2016
11 a.m.Noon
513 Lattimore Hall
Continue ReadingDr Andries Coetzee, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Friday, September 30, 2016
3 p.m.5 p.m.
513 Lattimore Hall
Continue ReadingDr 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
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