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Guest Speakers

2010–2011

Denis Burnham , University of Western Sydney
Title: "Speech and Music: The Case of Lexical Tone and Musical Pitch"
Place: BA 2135: Bahen Centre, 40 St George St.
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 3:30 P.M.


David Perlmutter, UC San Diego
Title: "On the Weak Expletive Paradigm in Germanic"
Place: Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1080 (100 St. George St.)
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 12:00 P.M.


2009–2010

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Syracuse University
Title: "Defining linguistic domain dynamically"
Place: Woodsworth College, Room 126 (119 St. George St.)
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:30 P.M.
This talk is co-sponsored by the UTM Department of Language Studies


Michael Barrie, University of Ottawa
Title: "Wh-Scope Marking" in Blackfoot as Feature Movement
Place: Woodsworth College 119 St. George St. Room 126
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:30 P.M.
This talk is co-sponsored by the UTM Department of Language Studies


Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh
Title: "Clicks, Concurrency, and the Complexity of Khoisan"
Place: Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., Room 2104
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 4:10 P.M.
This talk is hosted by the Phonology Reading Group.


Marc Richards, University of Leipzig
Title: "On the transfer and linearization of defective phases."
Place: Woodsworth College 119 St. George St. Room 126
Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 3:30 P.M.
This talk is co-sponsored by the UTM Department of Language Studies.


Jeff Good, Linguistics Department, SUNY Buffalo
Title: How to Become a "Kwa" Noun (and its Consequences)
Place: Woodsworth College 119 St. George St. Room 119
Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 3 P.M.


Vincenzo Moscati, Interdepartmental Center for Cognitive Studies of Language (CISCL), University of Siena
Title: Early Null Objects: Pronominal phi-features and saving strategies in language development.
Place: SS 1073 (Sidney Smith Hall)
Date: Friday, November 27, 4 P.M.


Miriam Meyerhoff, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
Title: Focusing on different targets: Existential constructions in Bequia creole
Place: Woodsworth College Room 119
Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 3 P.M.


Carson Schütze, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
Title: "What is periphrastic 'do' the spell-out of (for adults and children)?"
Place: Woodsworth College Room 119
Date: Friday September 11th, 2009, 10:30 A.M.
This talk is hosted by the Syntax Research Project.


2008–2009

Mieko Ueno, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
Title: Brain Indices of Syntactic Dependencies in Japanese:
Evidence for Language-Universal and Language-Specific Aspects of Neurocognitive Processing

Place: Woodsworth College, Room 126
Date: Friday, Feb. 6th, 2009, 3:10 P.M.


Daphna Heller, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Title: The integration of information about common ground in real-time processing.
Place: Woodsworth College, Room 126
Date: Friday, Jan. 30th , 3:10 P.M.


Andrea Martin, New York University
Title: Memory structures and mechanisms for language comprehension
Date: Friday Jan. 16, 2009 3 P.M.
Place: Woodsworth College, Room 126
(Woodsworth College is located at 119 St. George St.)


Peter Siemund, Universität Hamburg
Title: Grammaticalization, Lexicalization and Intensification
Place: Woodsworth College, Room 126
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 3 P.M.


Andrew Nevins, Harvard University
Title: Reslicing the Clitic/Affix Distinction
Place: Woodsworth College, Room 126
Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 3 P.M.


Gerard Van Herk, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Title: The Unbearable Whiteness of Fleeing:
Identity, demographics & sound change in North America

Date: Friday, February 15, 2008