Research Colloquia

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

Talks take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at 4pm for Fall 2014. Beginning in Winter 2015 all talks will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at 2 pm, unless otherwise stated. Map

2014 - 2015 Speakers

FALL 2014 (Talks take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at 4pm)

October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University
"The use of force in clausal complementation"
Abstract

December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
"Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
Abstract

WINTER 2015 (Talks take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at 2 pm)

January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
"Raising: the stakes"
Abstract

January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
"Bootstrapping into Attitudes"
Abstract

February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
"Partially Overlapping Harmonies: Implications for Agreement by Correspondence"
Abstract


Saturday, March 14th
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm    Program      Photo Gallery
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Vera Gribanova, Stanford
Title: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
Abstract

SPRING 2015 (Talks take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at 2pm)

April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
"Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework"
Abstract

April 17th
Cancelled


May 1st

Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
"Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference"
Abstract




May 29th
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Time: 12:45 - 4:45 pm