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)
Participation in the open house is by advance arangement only.
Please contact Chris Barker <chris.barker
nyu.edu> with any
questions about the open house.
Friday morning, 29 February, 2008
9:00-10:00am Breakfast and Introductions
10:00-11:00am Presentation on department and program by Alec Marantz and Chris Barker
11:00-11:45am Subfield meeting: Phonetics & Phonology
12:00-12:45pm Subfield meeting: Sociolinguistics
12:45-2:30pm Lunch locally (graduate students lead groups of at most 10)
2:30-3:15pm Subfield meeting: Neurolinguistics
3:30-4:15pm Subfield meeting: Syntax
4:15-5:00pm More time for meetings
5:00-6:00pm Reception at Department
7:00-9:00 Department-provided dinner at 19 University Place.
9:00pm+:Drinks with Grads
Saturday morning, 1 March, 2008
9:00-10:30am Breakfast and informal meetings
10:30-11:15am Subfield meeting: Semantics
12:00pm+ Groups off on tours of New York, Brooklyn, etc.
Newly admitted students are encouraged to attend at least two but no more than three of the subfield meetings, using the remaining time to make appointments to speak with professors and current graduate students. The purpose of the subfield meetings is to introduce the professors, graduate students, and lab facilities most relevant to the main subdisciplines emphasized at NYU.
Joel Wallenberg (UPenn) will be giving the syntax brown bag at 1:30 on Friday, March 7th. The title of his talk is "Generalizing Holmberg's Generalization: scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective" and the abstract can be found here.
Jeremy Rafal (CUNY) will be talking about Pseudoclefts in Ilokano at the Syntax Brown Bag on February 22nd. The talk will be at 1:30 in room 703 (726 Broadway). The abstract for his talk can be found here.
March 11, 2:00pm (time changed)
GLOW Practice Talk: Tom Leu: The syntax internal to Germanic determiners
April 24, 1:00 Lunch, 1:30 Talk
Practice Talk: Simanique Moody
TBA
About LANYU (Linguistics Association of NYU) - Graduate student organization
NWAV Practice Talks: schedule
October 4, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Tara Sanchez:
Workshop: TBA
Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona)
Friday, February 15
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