Previous Colloquia (2003-2004)

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Fall 2003

October 10, 2003: John Kingston,Lingusitics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title: "Lenition: When (some) sonority differences don't matter"
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October 17, 2003: Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Title: "Inanimate oblique subjects in Icelandic"
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October 24, 2003: Junko Ito and Armin Mester, UCSC
Title: "Contrast and Merger: Systemic Effects in Japanese"
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October 31, 2003: Michela Ippolito, Visiting Assistant Professor in Semantics
Title: "The Presupposition of the Particle STILL"
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November 7, 2003: Fiona Cowie, Cal Tech (Part of the Philosophy Colloquium Series)

November 14, 2003: Daniel Selden, Associate Professor of Literature, UCSC
Title: Crossroads and Chaos: Unsolved Problems in Old Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Morphology and Syntax
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003: Geoff Pullum, UCSC (Part of the Cognitive Psychology Colloquium Series)

November 21, 2003: Theodora Alexopoulou, Cambridge University
Title: "On Intrusive Resumption "
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Winter 2004

January 9, 2004: Michael Wescoat, Research Associate, Lingusitics Research Center, UCSC
Title: "Lexical Sharing: Evidence from Korean Copular Constructions"
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January 30, 2004: Richard P. Meier, University of Texas at Austin
Title: The Form of Children's Early Signs: Iconic or Motoric Determinants?*
This colloquium was co-sponsered by the Psychology Department.
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February 6, 2004: Dick Oehrle, Pacific Grove, CA

March 12, 2004: Lisa Travis, McGill University
Title: "VP-, D-movement languages"
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Spring 2004

April 2, 2004: Ingo Plag, University of Siegen, Germany & Research Associate, Linguistics Research Center at UCSC
Title: Who cares about syntactic category information?
A new look at the morphology-syntax distinction and the role of semantics in word-formation
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April 9, 2004: Peter Ladefoged, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
Location: Cowell College Room 131
Title: Classifying the sounds of languages
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April 16, 2004: David Beaver, Stanford University
Title: "Before and After in a Nutshell"
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April 30, 2004: Christian Rathmann, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Situation Type and Viewpoint Aspect in American Sign Language
Baytree Conference Center, Room D (third floor of Bay Tree Bookstore Building)
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May 21, 2004: Matthew Gordon, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
Title: "Cyclic and non-cyclic epenthesis and prosodic domains in Kabardian"
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May 28: Bill Ladusaw, UCSC
Title: "Biased Questions"
Location: Cowell Classroom 131
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