Linguistics Theory

2009-10 Schedule

January 30th 4:00pm*Boylston Hall 103* Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Title: "Spelling out syntactic constituents as prosodic domains: match constraints and the syntax-prosodic structure interface"

February 6th 4:00pm Boylston Hall 103 John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Title: "Harmonic Serialism"

February 20th 4:00pm Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Title: "Modals and context-dependency"

March 13th in Boylston Hall 103 at 4:00pm Jonathan David Bobaljik, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Title: "Word Order, Economy, Scope: Implications of the 3/4 Signature"
(Joint work with Susi Wurmbrand)

April 10th 4:00pm in Boylston Hall 104, Manfred Krifka, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany, Title:"Counting Configurational Entities"

April 17th at Boylston Hall 104 James Higginbotham, University of Southern California, Title: "Context and/or Anaphora"

May 8th 1:30PM  Sever 103 Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben Gurion University, visiting at Harvard University,
Title: "Canonical Information Structures"

November 6th, Boylston 104, 4-6:00pm, Audrey Li, University of Southern California

Title: "Missing NPs, Licensing and Structures"

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2010

February 5th location & time TBA Alan Prince, Rutgers University

Title: TBA

February 19th location & time TBA Pranav Anand, UC Santa Cruz

Title: TBA

March 26th location & time TBA Chris Baker, New York University

Title: TBA

April 23rd location & time TBA Eric Raimy, University of Wisconsin

Title: TBA

May 7th location & time TBA Jason Merchant, University of Chicago

Title: TBA