Department of Linguistics

Spring 2007 Colloquium Schedule

Fridays at 2pm, Marie Mount Hall 1108B,
except where noted in green.

Date
Speaker/Affiliation
Talk Title

February 13
11am, Tuesday, MMH 0108

Valentine Hacquard
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"On the Influence of Tense and Aspect on a Modal's Interpretation"

February 16
Alexander Williams
University of Maryland, College Park

"Objects in Causatives"

February 20
11am, Tuesday, MMH 0108

Adrian Brasoveanu
University of California, Santa Cruz

"Donkey Pluralities: Plural Information States vs. Non-Atomic Individuals"

February 23
11am, MMH 0108

Eytan Zweig
New York University

"When 'Dogs' Are Not More Than One Dog"

February 23
Chris Collins
New York University

"An AAE Camouflage Construction"

February 27
11am, Tuesday, MMH 0108

Tamina Stephenson
MIT

"On the Role of Subjective Meaning"

March 2
Robin Clark
University of Pennsylvania

"Number Sense and the Interpretation of Quantifiers "

April 6
Anthony Kroch
University of Pennsylvania

"Was Old English a verb-second language?"

April 20
MMH 1304

Alec Marantz
New York University

"Restitutive re- and the first phase syntax/semantics of the VP"