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MIT Linguistics: Department of Linguistics & Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Events

Ling-Lunch: Spring 2013

Ling-Lunch is a series of weekly talks, open to all linguistics topics. It is held in an informal setting, and everybody is welcome to present their work, but preference is given to members of the MIT Linguistics Department.

We meet every Thursday from 12:30 to 1:45 pm in room 32-D461.

Meetings and changes in the schedule are announced by email to interested people. If you want to receive the email announcements, want to present something, or have any other comments about Ling-Lunch, please email the organizers.

February 7:

to be announced

February 14:

to be announced

February 21:

Abhijit Debnath, University of Hyderabad
Search for a Minimal Agent Predicate Link preference in Recursive Agent Distribution Strategy for Embedded Clauses

February 28:

Michael Erlewine, MIT

March 7:

Igor Yanovich, MIT
Variable-force modality on the British Isles

March 14:

Hadas Kotek & Michael Erlewine, MIT

March 21:

Martin Rohrmeier (MIT)
Introduction to musical syntax

April 4:

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, University of Manchester
Lexical storage and cyclic locality in phonologically driven allomorph selection

April 11:

Benjamin Storme, MIT
Hittite present tense and its interaction with aspect

Anthony Brohan and Sudheer Kolachina
Backward Control in Telugu: An illusion?

April 18:

Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, University of Toronto
Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds

April 25:

Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University
EX-It: On the syntax of finite clause extraposition and pronominal correlates in Hindi and Bangla

May 2:

no talk

May 9:

Neil Myler, NYU

May 16:

Aniruddh D. Patel, Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University
Speech-music rhythmic relations: empirical studies