Time and Location

Talks are on Fridays at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. The colloquium will be held in Marie Mount Hall, Room 1304 unless noted otherwise. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Confirmed Speakers and Dates

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 29	Maribel Romero	University of Pennsylvania	"Negation, Alternative Questions and Focus" [joint work with Chung-hey Han, IRCS]
October 10	Gennaro Chierchia	Università di Milan	"Indefinite Pronouns" NOTE: TUE at 4pm in 0123 Scott Key Building
October 20	Satoshi Tomioka	University of Delaware	"Blocking Effects and Information Structure in Wh-interrogatives"
October 27	Julie Sedivy	Brown University	CANCELLED
November 7	Derek Bickerton	University of Hawaii	"When C-Command Fails: Principles of Priority and Finality" NOTE: TUE at 2:00pm, 1130 Plant Sciences Building
November 10	Zeljko Boskovic	University of Connecticut	"A-movement and the EPP"
November 17	Norvin Richards	MIT	"Movement Dependencies in a Root-First Derivation"
December 1	Michel de Graff	MIT	"Dualism in linguistics and beyond:Darwin and Descartes travel to 'Creole' land

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Graciela Tesan (graciela@wam.umd.edu). The same goes for anyone who is interested in having dinner with the speaker and members of the department.

Directions

Of Related Interest

People who attend the Linguistics Colloquium Series are also encouraged to attend the LAISEM (Logic and Artificial Intelligence) series on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and the Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series on Thursdays at 4 p.m. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to linguists.

Series Organizer

This is a student-run series coordinated by Graciela Tesan (graciela@wam.umd.edu) and Itziar San Martin (itziarsm@wam.umd.edu.)