Colloquia and talks (2006-2007)

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Fall 2006

Maria Polinsky, University of California, San Diego and Harvard University
Monday, October 9, 2006, 4:00PM
Location: Baobab Lounge, Merrill College
Why ‘want’ is special: A new perspective on an old problem

Kent Bach, San Francisco State University
Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 5:00PM
Location: Cowell Conference Room
Perspectives on Possibilities: contextualism, relativism, or what?
Department of Philosophy Colloquium,
(This talk forms part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series.)

Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
Friday, October 27th, 2006, 4:00PM
Location: Cowell Conference Room
The questionable nature of rhetorical questions

Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Friday, November 17, 2006, 4:00PM
Location: Baytree Conference Room D.
Two Routes of Control: Evidence from Case Transmission in Russian.

P-TREND (Trilateral Phonology Weekend)
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Location: UC Berkeley

S-TREND (Trilateral Syntax and Semantics Weekend)
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Location: UC Berkeley

Lev Blumenfeld, UC Santa Cruz
Friday, December 1, 2006, 4:00PM
Location: Baytree Conference Room D
Latin hexameter verse: the alignment of accent and ictus.

Winter 2007

Graham Katz, Stanford University
and Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Friday February 2, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 210
Title: Temporal reference in complement clauses and temporal perspective

Greg Carlson, Rochester University
Friday February 9, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 210
(This talk forms part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series)
Flying Squirrels, Lake City, and Incorporation: What's in a name?

Geoff Pullum, UCSC
Tuesday February 13, 2007, 8:00PM
Location: Music Recital Hall
Annual Faculty Research Lecture
Who Pays Any Attention to the Syntax of Things

Jaye Padgett, UCSC
Wednesday February 21, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Stevenson College Library
Stevenson Faculty Lecture
Perception and Linguistic Sound Systems

Robert Kluender, UC San Diego
Friday February 23, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 202
Title: What the Brain `Thinks' About Syntactic vs. Discourse Referential Dependencies'

LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz)
Saturday March 3, 2007
Location: Humanities 210
Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
Guest Alumnus Speaker: Jason Merchant, University of Chicago.

Dan Everett, Illinois State University
Tuesday March 6, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 210
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Psychology, UCSC.
The Nature and Nurture of Grammar

Penny Eckert, Stanford University
Friday March 9, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 202
Co-sonspored by the Linguistics Department and the Department of Feminist Studies
Title: The Sound of Gender: Beyond the Linguistic Binary

Spring 2007

Ned Block, New York University
Wednesday, April 4 and Thursday April 5
(This talk forms part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series)

Zoltan Szabo, Yale University
Wednesday, April 11 and Thursday April 12
(This talk forms part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series)

Rachel Walker, USC
Friday April 20, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 210
Title: Phonetics and phonology of coronal harmony: The case of Kinyarwanda

Poetics Fest 2: Dialogues in Language and Poetry
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Location: Cowell Conference Room
The program is available here.

Manfred Krifka
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZAS), Berlin.
Thurday April 26, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Cowell Conference Room
Title: More on the difference between `more than two' and `at least three'

Judith Aissen, UCSC
Friday May 18, 2007, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities 210
Title: TBA

This information is brought to you by the colloquium committee: Tristan Davenport, Paul Jensen, Abby Kaplan, Jessamy Norton-Ford, Nick Reynolds, Paul Willis, Connie Creel, and Jaye Padgett and Donka Farkas (faculty co-coordinators).