Colloquia (2005-2006)

Home News and Events Previous Colloquia Colloquia (2005-2006)

Fall 2005

Friday, September 30, 2005: Beth Ann Hockey, NASA Ames Center
Title: Building Speech Recognizers using Unification Grammars: The Regulus Toolkit (abstract)
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Friday, October 14, 2005: Susan Steele
Title: Sentences and Clauses: Syntax and Morphology (abstract)
Location: Silverman Conference Room

Friday, November 4, 2005: Yi Zhang, UCSC School of Engineering
Title: Language Models for Information Retrieval and Extraction (abstract)
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 5:00pm: Angelika Kratzer, UMass Amherst (part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series)
Title: Minimal Pronouns (abstract in PDF format)
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Friday, December 2, 2005: Ania Lubowicz, USC
Title: Morpheme Absorption of Infixes (abstract)
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Winter 2006

Friday, January 27, 2006: Irene Heim, MIT (part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series)
Title: Comparative Clauses as Generalized Quantifiers
Location: Silverman Conference Room

Thursday, February 2, 2006, 12 noon: Michela Ippolito, Boston University
Title: On the meaning of 'only'
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Thursday, February 9, 2006, 12 noon: Pranav Anand, MIT
Title: On the structure of the context: evidence from de se anaphora
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Thursday, February 16, 2006, 12 noon: Adrian Brasoveanu, Rutgers
Title: Temporal and Propositional de se: evidence from Romanian subjunctive mood
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 12 noon: Judith Tonhauser, Stanford
Title: The temporal semantics of noun phrases: evidence from Guarani
Location: Cowell Conference Room

Thursday, February 23, 2006, 12 noon: Paula Menendez-Benito, UCSC
Title: Dispositional sentences
Location: Cowell Conference Room

March 15-16: Jason Stanley, Rutgers (Philosophy colloquium) (part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series)

Spring 2006

May 5: Shin Ishihara (Potsdam) (part of a week-long visit)

May 12: Maria Polinsky (UCSD)

May 19: Mike Kenstowicz (MIT)

Date TBA: Sandra Chung (UCSC)

Non-colloquia talks (2005-2006)

Friday, October 21, 5pm: Almerindo Ojeda (UC Davis)
Title: Towards a Purely Extensional Theory of Meaning (abstract in PDF format)
Location: LCR

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 5:30pm: Donka Farkas, UCSC (part of the Stevenson Lecture Series)
Title: A Transylvanian in Search of Meaning
Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge