NYU Linguistics

Due to a scheduling conflict, Professor Corinne McCarthy will not be giving a colloquium talk on March 13.

updated Mar 7, 2009

Roberto Zamparelli
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February 20

Hedde H. Zeijlstra
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March 6

Friederike Moltmann
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March 27

Daniel Kaufman
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April 3

Jessica Coon
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April 17

Oussama Haddad
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May 1

Stephanie Harves (Pomona) will be giving a talk "To have and to need in Russian and beyond" on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 9am in the linguistics department conference room

Emmanuel Chemla will be giving a colloquium on Friday, March 6, in Silver 509.

A few of talks have been added to the syntax brown bag schedule for Spring 2009:

Hedde H. Zeijlstra, March 6
Friederike Moltmann, March 27
Jessica Coon, April 17

Roberto Zamparelli (Trento) will be giving a syntax brown bag on Feb 20 at 1:30 in room 703 of the linguistics department (726 Broadway, 7th floor)

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Coordination, Non-nominal Subjects and Semantic Agreement

Gregory Guy is attending the International Congress and Institute of the Associação Brasileira de Lingüística (Brazilian Linguistics Association, ABRALIN), in João Pessoa, Brazil, March 5-15. He is presenting a paper on Linguistic minorities in the USA, and teaching a one-week course on language change in progress.

Anna Szabolcsi is giving colloquium on "Raising Verbs as Quantifiers?" on February 27 at the Umass Amherst Department of Linguistics.

Dan Lassiter is giving a talk at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium in Philadelphia on March 29 entitled "Explaining a restriction on the scope of the comparative operator".

Inna Livitz is giving a talk on March 28 at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at UC Davis, entitled "The role of animacy information in syntactic processing: a case study of middle constructions."

In a few weeks, Jen Nycz will be joining the research team of the Accent and Identity on the Scottish~English Border Project at the University of York (UK). The Linguistics program at York is already home to two NYU alumni, Bill Haddican and Eytan Zweig. The University of York is not to be confused with York University in Ontario, which also has an NYU alum on its staff: Philipp Angermeyer.

Chris Tancredi of Keio University has kindly agreed to visit us this Friday and give a version of the talk that he is giving tomorrow at Princeton, entitled "Domains of quantification, rigid designation and modality: The case for multiple models". The abstract is copied below. The talk will be at 1:30PM in the Syntax/Semantics Lab.

Suzanne Dikker, Hugh Rabagliati, Thomas A. Farmer (Cornell), and Liina Pylkkanen will give a poster entitled "Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: the role of phonological typicality" at the 22nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Davis, CA, March 26-28 2009.

Tricia Irwin will be giving a talk called "Polarity and Degree in "so totally" Constructions" at the CUNY syntax supper on March 10.

Marcos Rohena-Madrazo will be giving a talk titled "Perception of non-native fricative voicing contrasts by Buenos Aires Spanish listeners: does native variation help?" at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (Tucson AZ, March 28).