NYU Linguistics

Tricia Irwin and Neil Myler will both be presenting at the Georgetown Linguistic Society conference Sound, Structure, Meaning: Explorations at the Interface, on February 12-14, 2010 at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

http://sites.google.com/site/gls2010site/Home.

Tricia will be presenting on Intransitive sentences, argument structure, and the syntax-prosody interface and Neil’s talk will be on A Phrasal Derivational Affix: The Case of -yoq in Quechua. Alec Marantz will give an invited plenary talk.

Dan Lassiter's “Where is the conflict between internalism and externalism? A reply to Lohndal and Narita (2009)” will appear in the next issue of Biolinguistics. A preprint is available on his website. It is a response to their paper "Internalism as Methodology", which appeared in Biolinguistics 3:4 (2009). That paper, in turn, is a response to Dan's "Semantic Externalism, Language Variation, and Sociolinguistic Accommodation", published in Mind and Language 23:5 (2008) -- see also on Dan's website.

Speaker: Ben Munson

Date and Time: Friday, Feb. 5, 4pm
Location: 10 Washington Place, 104 (Reception to follow)

Title: Falling off the ladder of abstraction: sociolinguistic variation and
phonological categories

Abstract:

Continue reading "Colloquium: Ben Munson (Feb. 5)" »

The brown bag schedule for Spring, 2010 is...

Feb 19: William Starr (Rutgers)

March. 19: Jason Kandybowicz (Swarthmore)

April. 2: Adam Szczegielniak (Warsaw University)

April 23: Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London)

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Dan Lassiter will present his paper "Why symmetry is not a problem for a Gricean theory of scalar implicature" at the conference Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models in Brussels. The talk will be on February 7.

Tricia Irwin will present her paper "Intransitive sentences, argument structure, and the syntax-prosody interface" at WCCFL 28 in Los Angeles. She will be joined by Richie Kayne and Diamandis Gafos, who are the keynote speakers.

Simon Charlow is giving a talk about "De re anaphors" at Ling-Lunch in the Linguistics Department at MIT on March 11.

Our visitor Patrick-André Mather will be giving a RISLUS talk at CUNY entitled Acquisition of NYC English phonetic features by Caribbean immigrants: a pilot study. The talk will be on Mar. 5; see link for time+place.

Speaker: Marcel Den Dikken
Date: 1/29
Time: 4pm
Title: Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences
Abstract: Download file

As usual the colloquium will be in the first floor classroom of 10 Washington Place.

Please save the dates listed below for colloquium lectures this spring. We have a terrific spring lineup!

As usual the lectures will be at 4pm on Fridays in the first floor classroom of 10 Washington Place.

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NYU Linguistics Spring 2010 colloquium schedule
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Marcel den Dikken: January 29
Ben Munson: February 5
Edward Stabler: March 26
Corinne McCarthy: April 2
Abby Cohn: April 9
Pauline Jacobson: April 23