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
February 26	Mark Baker	Rutgers	On the Anatomy of the Clause: Evidence from Serial Verb Constructions
March 5	Jennifer Ganger	Pittsburgh	A twin study of early vocabulary and grammatical development
March 12	Dekang Lin	Manitoba	Minipar - A Minimalist Parser
March 19	Phillip Wolff	Maryland	What Language Might Tell Us about the Individuation of Complex Events
April 9	Mari Olsen	Maryland	Transitivity in Lexical Syntax: at the Conceptual-Intensional Interface
April 16	Craige Roberts	Ohio State	Uniqueness in Definite NPs
April 19 Monday	Glyne Piggot	McGill	Transparency without Sympathy: the Case of Nasal Harmony
April 23	Cedric Boeckx	Connecticut	Raising at the Interface
April 30	Ellen Prince	Pennsylvania	On the Irrelevance of the Notion 'Topic' to Topicalization in English and Yiddish
May 7	Mary Ellen Scullen	Maryland	French Reduplication with Optimality Theory

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).