Some recent publications by NYU linguists:
Tom Leu, "What for Internally"--in Syntax (2008)
Chris Barker, "Parasitic Scope"--in Linguistics and Philosophy (2008)
Chris Collins, Simanique Moody, and Paul Postal, "An AAE Camouflage Construction"--in Language (2008)
Congratulations!
Two of our linguistics majors, Amanda Rysling and Ethan Mandel, just received awards from the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund. Amanda got funding for her project "Computational Principles Underlying Poetic Structures," supervised by Ray Dougherty, and Ethan will be collecting data in Okinawa for his work on phonological reconstruction of Proto-Japanese, "The Search for Japanese Roots: A reconstruction of the Amami Ryukyuan Dialect," under the supervision of John Costello. Congratulations!
NYU will be hosting a workshop on Romance object clitics on May 2-3. Invited speakers include Richard Kayne, Anna Cardinaletti, Francisco Ordonez, Lori Repetti, Dominique Sportiche, Estela Trevino, Christina Tortora and Juan Uriagereka.
Click here for more info.
There will be a Special Lecture in Linguistics and Philosophy given by Derek Bickerton (Professor Emeritus, Univeristy of Hawaii) on Wednesday, April 2 and 5pm in Meyer 815. The talk is entitled "Bastard Tongues: A Life in Linguistics".
Friday, March 7
10:00am Michael Wagner (Cornell), Sentence-Level Prominence: Relevant Factors and Cross-linguistic Variation (more info)
1:30pm Joel Wallenberg (UPenn), Generalizing Holmberg's Generalization: scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective (more info)
Tuesday, March 11
9:00am Shigeto Kawahara (Georgia) The universality of the prosodic hierarchy: Experimental evidence from Japanese (more info)
2:00pm Tom Leu (NYU) The syntax internal Germanic Determiners
(abstract, pdf). time changed
Thursday, March 13
9:00am Marjorie Pak (UPenn) A transparent syntax-phonology interface:
Cyclic spellout and phrasal tone in Huave and Luganda (more info)