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
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
