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Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork
2009 schedule
February 10th 6:00pm Barker Center Thompson Room 110
William O'Grady, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: " Scope Transfer in Korean-English Heritage Learners"
February 23rd 6:00pm at Grays Hall 5 Marcel den Dikken, City University of New York
Title: "Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences"
March 18th 6:00pm at Grays Hall 5 Dave Odden, Ohio State University,
Title: "Features Impinging on Tone"
April 7th 6:00pm at Grays Hall 5 Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa
Title: "The Kernels of Phonology in a New Sign Language"
April 14th 4pm in Emerson 101 Jeremy Boyd, Princeton University
Title: "Learning what not to say: Categorization and pre-emption in
a-adjective production"
April 21st at 6pm in Emerson 101 Jeanette Gundel, University of Minnesota
Title: "Clefts from a Cross-linguistic Perspective"
Abstract:
Most, if not all, languages have cleft sentences of the type 'It was Marie who won.' However, even when syntactic and information structural properties of such structures are virtually identical, the frequency with which they are used varies considerably across languages. This paper explores such differences and possible explanations for them, reporting on results of a study that examines the distribution of clefts in the original British version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and translations of this novel into Norwegian, Chinese, Spanish, and Irish.
April 30th at 6pm in Sever 310 Virginia Savova, MIT
Title: TBA
May 5th 5pm in Boylston Hall 303 Verner Egerland, University of Lund
Title: "The syntax of 'once'"
May 12th 4pm in Boylston Hall 303 Kyongjoon Kwon, Harvard University
Title: "Adversity impersonal construction in diachrony"
Abstract
September 1st, Tues. at 1pm, in Boylston 303 Bill Idsardi, University of Maryland
Title: "Phonology meets Learning Theory"
Oct .27th, Tues. at 5pm in Boylston Hall 303 Tucker Childs, Portland State University
Title: "Pushed beyond the edge: Why highly endangered languages should not be studied"
Nov. 10th, time and location TBA, Coppe van Urk, Utrecht University
Title: TBA
Abstract
2010
March 9th, Tues. at TBA, Jason Kandybowicz , Swarthmore College
Title: TBA
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