Schedule:

Friday, September 14, 2007 -- Time: 3-6PM -- Location: 32-124
Masha Polinsky (Harvard University) - 'Ergativity: A general introduction' [download handout] [download slides]
download sound files (long downloads, 50MB each): [part 1 of the talk] [part 2 of the talk]

Friday, September 28, 2007 -- Time: 3-6PM -- Location: 32-124
Roni Katzir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - 'Abstract case, Morphological case, and Ergativity' [download handout]

Friday, October 5, 2007 -- Time: 1-4PM -- Location: 32-124
Julie Legate (Cornell University) - 'Ergativity: the View from Australia' [download handout]
download sound files (long downloads, 60MB & 86MB): [part 1 of the talk] [part 2 of the talk]

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut) - 'Ergative Agreement Puzzles' [download handout]
download sound files (long downloads, 50MB & 25MB): [part 1 of the talk] [part 2 of the talk]

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Masha Polinsky (Harvard University) - 'Some Observations on Clause Structure in Northwest Caucasian' [download handout]

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Milan Rezac (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes) - 'The distribution of a Dependent Case: The syntactic, structural, and last-resort character of the Basque ergative'
download handout: [part 1] [part 1 (2-up)] [part 2] [part 2 (2-up)] [part 3] [part 3 (2-up)]

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Amy Rose Deal (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - 'Case and caselessness in Nez Perce' [download handout] [download handout (2-up)]
Hakyung Jung (Harvard University) - 'Verbal Nominalization and Ergativity in North Russian' [download handout]

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Jessica Coon and Kirill Shklovsky (MIT): 'Ergativity: the View from Chiapas'
download handouts: [joint overview] [Coon handout] [Shklovsky handout]

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - 'Ergativity in Indo-Aryan Languages' [download handout]
download sound files (long downloads, 60MB & 85MB): [part 1 of the talk] [part 2 of the talk]

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 -- Time: 3-6:30PM -- Location: 32-D461
Alana Johns (University of Toronto) - 'Ergativity in Inuktitut dialects: Varying Views' [download handout]


We would also like to point out that Jonathan Bobaljik, Milan Rezac and Alana Johns will give additional presentations at MIT's ling-lunch on October 11 (Bobaljik), October 25 (Rezac) and November 29 (Johns), independently from the Ergativity Research Seminar. See the ling-lunch homepage for further information


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