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MIT Linguistics: Department of Linguistics & Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Groups

Syntax Square
Spring 2013

Syntax square will be meeting this semester on Tuesdays from 1-2pm in room 32-D461. If you would like to lead a discussion or give an informal presentation of your work, please contact Ruth Brillman and Tingchun Chen.

February 4:

WCCFL practice talk (Special Time: 1:30-3:30pm)
Ted Levin: Untangling the Balinese Bind: Binding and Voice in Autronesian
Hrayr Khanjian: Complementizr Concord in Western Armenian

February 5:

WCCFL practice talk
Tingchun Chen: Restructuring in Squliq Atayal

February 12:

Junya Nomura

February 19:

Monday Class Schedule

March 5:

Amanda Swenson and Paul Marty
Local Agreement without local binding: What the syntax and prosody of Malayalam taan teach us

March 12

Coppe van Urk will be reporting on a paper from ACAL 44.
On Object Marking in Kikuria
Original Presenters: Rodrigo Ranero, Michael Diercks, and Rebekah Cramerus (Pomona College)

March 19:

Yusuke Imanishi
When ergative is default: Ergativity in Kaqchikel and Q’anjob’al (and Mayan)

March 26:

Spring Vacation

April 2:

Ted Levin
Successive-Cyclic Case Assignment: Case Alternation and Stacking in Korean

April 9:

Coppe van Urk on Bruening

April 16:

Patriots Day

April 23:

Gary Thoms
Remnant movement and discontinuous deletion

April 30:

Isa Bayirli
On an Impossible Affix

May 7:

May 14: