Colloquium Series

 

Friday, October 10
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Carrie Bonilla
University of Pittsburgh
NYU MA thesis presentation


Friday, October 17
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Dan Hufnagle
University of Calgary & Carnegie Mellon University
"L1/L2 acquisition and artificial languages"


Friday, October 31
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Shelome Gooden & Erin Donnelly
University of Pittsburgh
"The phonetics of implosives in Jamaican Creole"


Friday, November 14
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Scott Kiesling and Maeve Eberhardt
University of Pittsburgh
"Tracking stance and linguistic variation in interaction"


Friday, December 5
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

University of Pittsburgh
The Tonal Morphology of Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication


Previous Colloquia

Friday, October 3
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Professor Tom Cobb
Université du Québec à Montréal
"Lextutor.ca: On line vocabulary resources and research"

Abstract

 

Friday, September 19
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

A. Juffs, M. Nugent, D. McCormick, C. O’Neill, D. Smith & G. Mizera.
University of Pittsburgh
"The ELI database and data mining" Abstract


Friday, September 5
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Kris Geda
University of Pittsburgh
MA thesis presentation
"The enregisterment of gay sounding speech in non-gay media"

Abstract (pdf file)


Monday, August 25
10:00 am - 12:15 m
2809 Cathedral of Learning

Guillermo Rodríguez
University of Vermont & University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Defense


Friday, April 11
3:00 pm
Room 332   Cathedral of Learning

Wendy Martelle
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh

“The Evolution of Aspect: A Case Study in Russian” Abstract


Roberto Aranovich
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh

“Against Verb Raising in Spanish” Abstract

Friday, February 29
3:00 pm
Room 332   Cathedral of Learning

Emily McEwan-Fujita
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh

"Adult learners, native speakers, and ‘Gaelic grannies’:
How ideologies shape the Gaelic language socialization of adults in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland"

 

Friday, February 8
3:00 pm
Room 332   Cathedral of Learning

Richard Donato
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh

G.R. Tucker
Modern Languages Department
Carnegie Mellon University

"Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools (FLES)"

Friday, January 18

3:00 pm
Room 332   Cathedral of Learning

Yumiko Nishi
University of Pittsburgh

"Verb learning and the acquisition of aspect: The significance of L1 transfer"

 

Friday, December 7

3:00 pm
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Patricia Pharmakis
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh

“A Formal Account of Modern Greek Nominal Inflection within the Framework of Distributed Morphology” Abstract

Friday, November 9
3:00 pm
3106 WWPH
Anthropology Lounge

Professor Michael Silverstein
University of Chicago

(co-sponsored by the Departments of Lingustics and Anthropology)

“Personal identity travels with ego: deictic stance and denotational style across interactional contexts” Abstract

 

Friday, October 19
3:00 - 4:25 pm
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Professor Pascual Masullo
University of Pittsburgh

"The Syntax-Semantics / Pragmatics Interface:
On the Arbitrariness of Arbitrary pro" Abstract

Friday, October 12
3:00 - 4:25 pm
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning


Professor David Mortensen
University of Pittsburgh

“Optimal-Constructional Morphology, or how, when our lexicon gives us lemon, we make lemonade.” Abstract

Friday, September 14
3:00 - 4:25 pm
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Professor Shelome Gooden
University of Pittsburgh

“Language Contact and Creole Language Prosodic Typology”

Abstract

Friday, March 30 , 2007
3:00 p.m
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Professor Kirk Hazen
West Virginia University

“An Empirical View of Varieties of English in Appalachia" Abstract

Friday, March 2, 2007
3:00 p.m
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Professor Sharon Hargus
University of Washington (Seattle)

"Sahaptin Relational Nouns" Abstract

Friday, January 26 , 2007
3:00 p.m
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Roberto Aranovich
"Handling of Morphosyntactic Divergences in the Mapudungun/Spanish AVENUE Transfer Grammar and Lexicon" Abstract

 

Monday, December 11, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Guillermo Rodríquez
"Sentence processing in a second language:Is it fundamentally different?"


Friday, December 1
, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Maeve Eberhardt
"Leadership and Style-Shifting: Women's Use of (ING)"

Friday, November 17, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Brian Brubaker
"Shibboleths of Standardness in the Mandarin Chinese of Taiwan"

Wednesday October 18, 2006
3:00 p.m

Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

Pascual José Masullo
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh

"The Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface: Prepositionalizing Motion Verbs in Spanish"
Abstract (pdf file)

Wednesday September 27, 2006
3:00 p.m

Room 144  Cathedral of Learning

David Mortensen
Department of Linguistics
The University of Pittsburgh

“A Marked Structure is Born:  The Emergence of Obstruents and the Motivations for Sound Change” Abstract (pdf file)