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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

CUNY Linguistics Colloquium

The CUNY Linguistics Colloquium is a series of biweekly lectures on any topic of linguistic inquiry given by specialists in their fields. The talks, held on alternate Thursday afternoons starting at 4:15 p.m., are keyed to a broad audience of linguistics students and faculty, always featuring an introduction in which their specific subject matter is situated in the context of linguistic research in general, outlining the background of the specific proposals advanced and thereby allowing non-specialists to maximally benefit as well.

Colloquium talks take place in room 6417 of the Graduate Center and last approx. one hour, with a question-and-answer session tagged on at the end, followed by an informal reception in the Linguistics Lounge on the 7th floor. After the reception, the department will take the speaker our for dinner at a restaurant near the Graduate Center. Both the reception and the dinner are excellent opportunities for students and faculty alike to discuss their ideas with the Colloquium speaker. Students are therefore strongly encouraged to take part in these events; as an added incentive, the department will cover the first $10 of each student's dinner expenses.

 

Spring 2008/Fall 2008 program

February 7, 2008 (Thursday)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center; 4:15 PM -
Producing Number Agreement
J. Kathryn Bock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
See the abstract here

March 20, 2008 (Thursday)
Room C198, The CUNY Graduate Center; 4:15 PM -
Properties of the Sociolinguistic Monitor
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
See the abstract here

April 3, 2008 (Thursday)
Room 4102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 4:15 PM -
Bastard Tongues, a career in Creoles
Derek Bickerton (Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii)
See the abstract here

May 1, 2008 (Thursday)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center; 4:15 PM -
An (almost) new perspective on grammatical categorisation
Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
See the abstract here

May 8, 2008 (Thursday)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center; 4:15 PM -
CANCELLED
David Pesetsky and Esther Torrego (MIT and UMass Boston)
See the abstract here

 

Past Programs

Spring 2005 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2006 | Fall 2006 | Spring 2007 | Fall 2007 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2008