NYU 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)

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".