Spring 2024
January 17th 3:00 PM
Organizational meeting
January 24th 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Writing Session
January 31st 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Writing Session
February 7th 3:00 PM
Sid Bhushan presents ongoing work on Kannada
February 14th 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Writing Session
February 21st 3:00 PM
Jonathan Dunn presents
February 28th 3:00 PM
Josh Dees presents a paper by Ruth Kramer (plenary at ILLS 16)
March 6th 3:00 PM
Kutay Serova, University of Chicago, presents ongoing work, On the Derivational Routes Shared Exponence.
March 13th 3:00 PM
Spring Break
March 20th 3:00 PM
Akshay Aitha, University of Chicago, presents ongoing work, Morphologically- and Phonologically-Conditioned Exponent Choice in Telugu: Readjustment and the Timing of VI.
March 27th 3:00 PM
Writing session
April 3rd 3:00 PM
Xiaobei Chen, University of Chicago, presents
April 10th 3:00 PM
Martine Gallardo presents ongoing work, Diagnosing the Structure of Italian Absolute Clauses
April 17th 3:00 PM
Writing session
April 24th 3:00 PM
End of year meeting
May 1st 3:00 PM
End of year Department of Linguistics Awards Ceremony
Fall 2023
August 30th 3:00 PM
Organizational meeting
September 6th 3:00 PM
Writing hour
September 13th 3:00 PM
Walther Glodstaf presents ongoing work, Experimental support for Morphology not being part of the Lexicon
September 20th 3:00 PM
Jon MacDonald presents ongoing work
September 27th 3:00 PM
Writing hour
October 4th 3:00 PM
Writing hour
October 11th 3:00 PM
Writing hour
October 18th 3:00 PM
Josh Dees presents ongoing work, (T)ense and temporal adverbs in Dholuo: A diachronic study
October 25th 3:00 PM
Writing hour
November 1 3:00 PM
Writing hour
November 8 3:00 PM
Writing hour
November 15 3:00 PM
Chae Eun Lee presents ongoing work, Second language acquisition of Korean plural marking
November 29 3:00 PM
Xiaomeng Bu presents ongoing work, Against dynamic semantics of epistemic modality
December 6 3:00 PM
Katie VanDyne practices upcoming LSA talk, Relating the size and the specifier: Contrasts in intermediate wh-movement
Spring 2023
February 21st 4:00 PM
Rodrigo Delgado presents
March 28th 4:00 PM
Jon MacDonald presents
April 4th 4:00 PM
Read and discuss Yoshida paper
April 11th 4:00 PM
Katie VanDyne presents
April 25th 4:00 PM
Josh Dees presents
May 2nd 4:00 PM
Walther Glodstaf presents
Spring 2022
February 24th 4:00 PM
Chae Eun presents
March 3rd 4:00 PM
Walther presents
March 24th 4:00 PM
Josh presents
April 7th 4:00 PM
LSRL presentations
April 21th 4:00 PM
Aida presents
Fall 2021
September 14th 4:00 PM
Aida presents background reading for Bošković talk
October 12th 4:00 PM
Katie presents
October 26th 4:00 PM
Background reading for Murphy talk
November 30th 4:00 PM
Martine presents on Italian passives
Spring 2021
March 11th 3:00 PM
Aida presents background for Citko talk
March 26th 1:00 PM
Martine presents work on Italian Venire Passives and Event Structure
April 9th 1:00 PM
Jon presents work on Syntax, telicity and null anaphora
April 22nd 3:00 PM
Walther presents
May 6th 3:00 PM
Josh presents
Fall 2020
Meetings at 3:30PM on Thursdays:
October 8th
Joshua presents some of his own work
October 12th
Background for Simonović and Mišmaš talk
October 22nd
Background for Progovac talk
October 29th
Aida presents some of her own work
November 5th
Background for Barros talk
November 12th
Background for Carstens talk
December 3rd
Walther presents
December 10th
Chae Eun presents
Spring 2020
February 12th
James & Aida present Arregi & Pietraszko (2019)
February 26th
Jon presents some of his own work
March 11th
Katie presents in preparation for LSRL 2020
April 8th
TBD
April 15th
Walther presents some of his own work
April 22nd
TBD
May 6th
Karla presents on her thesis research proposal
Fall 2019
September 24th
Jon presents work in progress on the relation between null subjects and impersonal se constructions in Romance.
October 8th
Almike presents in preparation for HLS 2019 (https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hispanic-linguistics-symposium-2019/)
October 22nd
Walther presents work on long distance case in Finnish
November 12th
Aida presents some of her own work
December 10th
James leads a paper discussion.
Fall 2018
September 11
Paper discussed: Kalin, Laura & Philipp Weisser. to appear. Asymmetric DOM in coordination: A problem for movement-based approaches. Linguistic Inquiry
Led by: Aida
October 9
Paper discussed: Hankamer, Jorge & Line Mikkelsen. 2018. Structure, Architecture, and Blocking. Linguistic Inquiry 49. 61-84.
Led by: Aida
October 23
Title: The interaction of parasitic gaps and adjunct control in Spanish
Presenter: Katie vanDyne – practice talk for Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.
November 6
Paper discussed: Rullmann, Hotze & Lisa Matthewson. 2018. Towards a theory of modal-temporal interaction. Language 94(2). 281-331.
Led by: Chelsey
Spring 2018
March 13
Katie presents work from her MA thesis
March 27
Open
April 10
Almike presents “Basque Spanish null objects in relation to leísmo and the PCC”, a practice talk for oral presentation at LSRL 48 (http://lsrl48.info.yorku.ca)
April 24
Jon & Almike present “On (un)grammatical sequences of ses in Spanish”, a practice talk for joint oral presentation at LSRL 48 (http://lsrl48.info.yorku.ca)
Fall 2017
September 28
Paper Discussed: Martins, Anna Maria & Nunes, Jairo (forthcoming). Identity Avoidance with Reflexive Clitics in European Portuguese and Minimalist Approaches to Control. Linguistic Inquiry 48.4:627-649.
Led by: Jon
October 12
Paper Discussed: Wood, Jim. 2014. Reflexive -st verbs in Icelandic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32.4:1387-1425.
Led by: Aida
October 26
Paper Discussed: Ormazabal, Javier & Juan Romero. 2007. The Object Agreement Constraint. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25. 315-347.
Led by: Almike
November 9
Paper: Kramer, Ruth. 2014. Clitic Doubling or object agreement: the view from Amharic.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 32:593-634.
Led by: Jon
November 30
Paper: Chomsky, Noam. 2013. Problems of Projection. Lingua 130: 33-49.
Led by: Aida