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 25	Chip Gerfen	UNC	"Phonetics contexts or phonological structures? Phonetics, phonology, and the licensing of contrast"
October 9	John Ingram	Queensland, Australia	"Two experiments in Japanese - English interlanguage phonetics/phonology and what they can tell us about speech perception"
October 16	Ken Wexler	MIT	"Very Early Parameter-Setting, the Extended Projection Principle, the Unique Checking Constraint, Minimalism, and the Optional Infinitive Stage"
October 22 & 23 1108B Marie Mount Hall	Various	Various	Maryland Linguistics Student Conference 1998
October 30	Bonnie D. Schwartz	Durham, UK	"Child L2 English: Optional uninflection, not Optional Infinitives"
November 3 (Tue)	Tatiana Chernikovskaya	I. Sechenov Institute, Russia	"Cerebral asymmetry for language and communication"
November 6	Laura Benua	Maryland	"Morpho-phonological derivation and inventories"
November 13	Marcel den Dikken	CUNY & ZAS/Berlin	"Pseudoclefts and Ellipsis"
November 20	Kai von Fintel	MIT	"Would You Believe It? The King of France is Back! Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions"
November 30 (Mon) 4 p.m. Tawes Theatre	Noam Chomsky	MIT	The Graduate School Distinguished Lecturer Series Language and Cognition
December 4	Mark Baltin	NYU	"Inner VP- Ellipsis"

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Yoshi Okamoto (yoshi@umiacs.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 Yoshi Okamoto (yoshi@umiacs.umd.edu).