Time and Location

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

Confirmed speakers & dates:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (link to abstract and bio)
February 06	Akin Akinlabi	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	"Patterns of Tonal Transfer"
February 13	Thomas Ernst	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	"Why I Believe in Right Adjunction"
February 20	Stephen Anderson	Yale University, New Haven	"The Optimal Story About Second Position Phenomena"
March 06	David Pesetsky	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge	"Lifestyles of the Which and Famous: English is Bulgarian"
March 13	John McCarthy	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"Paradigm Occultation"
March 20	Roger Martin	Tsukuba University	"The status of deep structure and conceptual relations in the minimalist program"
April 1 Wednesday, 4pm	Paula Tallal	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	"Language Learning Impairments: Research and Remediation"
April 3	Howard Lasnik	University of Connecticut	"A Gap in an Ellipsis Paradigm: Theoretical Implications?"
April 17 postponed	Chris Collins	Cornell University, Ithaca	Postponed to Fall 1998
April 24	Rolf Noyer	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	"The Basis of Bases: Cyclic and Noncyclic Domains in Output-Output Correspondence"
May 01	Guglielmo Cinque	Universita de Venezia, Italy (joint invitation with Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities)	"On Clitic Climbing and OtherTransparency Effects"
May 06 Wednesday, 2pm	Kenneth Safir	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	"Vehicle Change in A'-Chains: Rethinking Reconstruction Asymmetries"
May 08	Diamandis Gafos	Haskins Laboratories, New Haven	Cancelled!
May 08	Paul Smolensky and Alan Penczek	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore	"Optimality and the Definition of 'cause'"
May 15	Gert Webelhuth	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	"Markedness in HPSG"

Confirmed speakers for the Fall:

Speaker	Affiliation
Kai von Fintel	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Chris Collins	Cornell University, Ithaca
Ken Wexler	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Mark Steedman	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Kleanthes Grohmann, grohmann@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 encouraged to also attend the LAISEM (Logic and Artificial Intelligence) series Tuesdays at 4pm, and the Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series Thursdays at 4pm. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to linguists.

Series Organizer

This is a student-run series coordinated by Kleanthes Grohmann.

Past and Future Colloquia

Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 1997
Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 1998