Previous Colloquia (2004-2005)

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Fall 2004

October 15, 2004: Ivan A.Sag, Stanford University
Title: Rules and Exceptions in the English Auxiliary System
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October 22, 2004: No colloquium --- but linguists may be interested to note that the Western Humanities Association conference at the UCSC Inn on Ocean Street has Geoff Nunberg speaking on "The shadow cast by language upon thought" at 4pm; Geoff Pullum introduces him.

October 29, 2004: Cathryn Donohue, Linguistics Research Center Associate
Title: Case licensing in four place predicates in Basque
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Thursday, November 4, 2004 at 4:00 p.m.: Haruo Kubozono, Kobe University
Title: Phonetics and Phonology of Kagoshima Japanese
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November 12, 2004: Jorge Hankamer & Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, UCSC
Title: What Moves in German VP Topicalization
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December 3, 2004: Dan Karvonen, PhD defense
Title: Word Prosody in Finnish

Winter 2005

January 21, 2005: VeerleVan Geenhoven, UCSC
" The Aspectual Source of Distributivity and Nonmaximality: Part I
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February 4, 2005: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
"The language-specificity of speech perception"
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February 11, 2005: Chris Barker (UCSD)
"Parasitic Scope"
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March 11, 2005: Daniel Kaufman (Cornell/UCSC)
"Nasal Substitution, Contraxt Preservation and the Inventory"
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March 30, 2005: linguist/philosopher Jason Stanley visiting SCLL group
March 31, 2005: Jason Stanley Philosophy Colloquium

Spring 2005

Monday, April 4, 2005: Larry Horn, Yale
"Semantics vs. pragmatics: Three fronts in the border wars"

April 8, 2005: Kie Zuraw, UCLA
" The role of phonetic knowledge in phonological patterning: Corpus and survey evidence from Tagalog infixation"
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April 29, 2005: Michael Devitt, CUNY Graduate Center
Title:" Ignorance of Language"
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May 6, 2005: Paula Menendez-Benito
Title: "Universal Free choice Items and Exhaustivity"
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May 13, 2005: Gregory Ward
Title: "Noncanonical Equatives"
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May 27, 2005: Theresa Biberauer, Cambridge University & UCSC Visiting Scholar
Title: 'True optionality' as a window on syntactic structure: insights from free variation in Afrikaans
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June 3, 2005: Veerle Van Geenhoven, UCSC Visiting Assistant Professor
Title: "The aspectual source of distributivity and maximality, Part II"