FALL 2010 & WINTER 2011
Meeting times: Friday 3 p.m. Room 117 (unless specified otherwise)
Tuesday, April 26, at 2:30 room 117
Reading group meeting: discussion of David Embick's (2010) monograph Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology chapter 3
Friday March 25, 3 p.m. room 117
- Natalia Fitzgibbons, Concordia University. The High Low abstract.pdf
Friday March 11, 3 p.m. room 117
- Heather Newell. Discussion of David Embick's (2010) monograph Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology
Tuesday, December 7, 3 p.m., room 117
- Keir Moulton: The Nominalization of Clause-taking Verbs
Friday, November 26
- Glyne Piggott & Lisa Travis: Adjuncts within words and complex heads
Tuesday, November 9
- This week's presentation is moved to a later day (tba).
Friday there is a colloquium.
Friday, October 29
- Máire Noonan: Old Irish absolute inflection: movement to C or lowering? Readings: Carnie, Harley & Pyatt (2000) VSO Order as Raising Out of IP? Some Evidence from Old Irish., and Adger (2006) Post-Syntactic Movement and the Old Irish Verb. NLLT 24:605–654
Friday, October 22
- (LF-axis) No meeting.
Tuesday, October 12, 11:30 a.m., room 117
- Keir Moulton: Discussion of Biberauer & Sheehan Disharmony, Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint
Friday, October 8
- David-Étienne Bouchard: Discussion of Sportiche's Division of labour between Merge and Move
Tuesday, September 28 11:30 a.m., room 117
- Tanya Slavin (U of T/McGill): Phonological and syntactic evidence for stem structure in Oji-Cree
Friday, September 24
- Bernhard Schwarz: For-phrases and derived scales
Tuesday, September 21, 12:55-2:25, room 117
- Kie Zuraw (UCLA): When syntactic and phonological conditioning collide: some predictions and data on patterns of variation.
Friday, September 17, 3:30 p.m. -- Education, room 216
- Norvin Richards (MIT): Affix Support and the EPP
Friday Sept 17, 9:30-12:30,room 117 (tentative time)
MINI WORKSHOP
- Alexandra Simonenko
Disharmonic morpheme order and phases in Scandinavian DP
Keir Moulton
Big Problems with Small Clauses
Eva Dobler
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