Colloquia and talks (2007–2008)

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Winter 2008

Florian Schwarz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 4:30PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: Bridging with Two Types of Definites in German—Relational Anaphora and Situational Uniqueness

Adrian Brasoveanu, Stanford University
Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: Uniqueness Effects in Correlatives

Raj Singh, MIT
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: On the Proviso Problem for Presuppositions

Lynsey Wolter, University of Rochester
Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: Deixis and Identification

Hannah Rohde, University of California, San Diego
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: Coherence-Driven Effects in Sentence Processing and Discourse Processing

Matthew Wagers, University of Maryland
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: Creating and navigating structure in real time
The abstract is available here.

Rachel Sussman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: The role of instrument information during on-line sentence-processing: What psycholinguistic data tells us about verb representation

Shinichiro Ishihara, University of Potsdam
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One, Room 202
Title: Roles of Syntax and Information Structure in Prosody

This information is brought to you by the colloquium committee: Scott AnderBois, Matt Barros, Judith Fiedler, Tiffany Lake, Amanda Morris, Jeremy O'Brien, Katrina Vahedi, Gigi Ying, Connie Creel (LRC Assistant), and Jaye Padgett (faculty coordinator).

Colloquium schedules from previous years may be found here.