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MIT Linguistics: Department of Linguistics & Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Events

Upcoming Colloquia
Spring 2009

All talks are from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in room 32-141 unless otherwise noted. For further information, please contact Peter Graff or Marie-Christine Meyer. This schedule is subject to change; please check back for changes.

February 27:

T. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester
Efficient Language Production?

March 6:

Lisa Travis, McGill
The Malagasy Cleft: What and Why (pdf)

March 20:

Anna Szabolcsi, NYU
Raising Verbs as Quantifiers

April 3: **from 4:00-5:30pm**

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Ellipsis and Accommodation: The (morphological) Case of Sluicing

April 17:

Hedde Zeijlstra, University of Amsterdam
On the origin of Berbice Dutch VO

April 24:

Daniel Buring, UCLA
At Least and At Most: The Logic of Bounds and Insecurity

May 1:

Philippe Schlenker, Institut Jean-Nicod

May 8:

Sharon Rose, UCSD
Tone Distribution and Affix Order in Moro
*please note- talk will be held in 32-155*