Colloquia and talks (2008–2009)

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Fall 2008

Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Friday, October 3, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 210
Title: Assertions, Polar Questions and Polarity Particles

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Hogeschool-Universiteit, Brussel and NYU
Friday, October 17, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 210
Title: More ado about Nothing: Sluicing, Copular Clauses and Case
The abstract is available here.

Luis Vicente, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Friday, October 31, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 210
Title: Verb fronting in Mandarin Chinese (Joint work with Lisa Cheng)
The abstract is available here.

Sam Cumming, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
Title: Creatures of Darkness
(This talk forms part of the SCLP Distinguished Visitors Series; the abstract is available here.)

Jessica Rett, UCLA
Friday, November 14, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 210
Title: Exclamatives, Degrees and Speech Act Theory
The abstract is available here.

Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
Friday, November 21, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
Title: An Inside-out Approach to Multiple Exponence in Morphology
The abstract is available here.

This information is brought to you by the colloquium committee:
Ryan Bennett,
Allison Day,
Robert Henderson,
Alexa Mater,
Matt Tucker,
Debbie Belville (LRC Coordinator)

Colloquium schedules from previous years may be found here.