Suppers and Colloquiums in 2005

February 1, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Effects of grammatical repetition on language comprehension
Martin Pickering (Edinburgh)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 17, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

A site of your own: A hands-on tutorial for building a professional webpage
Susan Schweitzer (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 22, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Does ungrammatical input improve language learning?
Carrie Crowther (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 24, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

The content of resumptive pronouns
Alain Rouveret (Paris)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 1, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Underlying constituency and cyclic linearization
Heejeong Ko (MIT)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 3, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Structuring silence: Processing VP ellipsis
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin & Ion Giurgean (Paris)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 8, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Representation of principled connections in common sense conception
Sandeep Prasada (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 10, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

WORKSHOP ON FEATURE THEORY
Nick Clements & Elan Dresher (Paris/Toronto)

12:00 AM -
See the abstract here

March 11, 2005 (Friday) - Colloquium

WORKSHOP ON FEATURE THEORY
Nick Clements & Elan Dresher (Paris/Toronto)

12:00 AM -
See the abstract here

March 15, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Morphological transitivization and causativization in two Ethiopian Semitic languages, Amharic and Geez
Tomoyuki Yabe (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 17, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Yikes! My abstract was accepted! Practical skills for effective presentations
Stephanie Solt (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 24, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

On locative prepositions
Arhonto Terzi (Patras)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 31, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

If I had known then what I know now: A CUNY alumna's advice on the job market
Arhonto Terzi (Patras)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 5, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

NPI connectivity and its focal analysis
Tomoko Kawamura (Stony Brook)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 7, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

A new look at information structure in Hungarian
Ferenc Kiefer (Budapest)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

April 12, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

The interaction of input and transfer in the L2 acquisition of aspect
Alison Gabriele (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 14, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Linguistic activity in the speech technology industry
Corey Miller (ScanSoft, Inc)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 14, 2005 (Thursday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Syntactic bootstrapping of lexical acquisition : ERP investigation in adults and infants
Savita Bernal (LSCP-Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 19, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Oana Ciucivara (New York University)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 21, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Structuring silence: Processing VP ellipsis
Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 3, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Bilingual and monolingual prosody in Spanish and English: Similarities and differences, and implications for sentence processing
Eva Fernandez (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 5, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

The development of phases
Ken Wexler (MIT)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 10, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Two kinds of restructuring infinitives in Basque
Bill Haddican (New York University)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 12, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Balancing family and professional advancement: A panel discussion on the effect of having a family while building your career
Fay Halbertsam (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 19, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Getting a job in linguistics: tales from the academic job search
Alison Gabriele and Barbara Citko ((CUNY Graduate Center/ Brandeis))
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 6, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Phi-features organized
Jed Shahar (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 8, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

The Morphophonology of Lingua do Pe in Salvador, Brasil
Andrew Nevins (Harvard)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

September 13, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Finding Nuts
Charles Yang (Yale University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 15, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Getting Involved in a Research Project: Why and How
Carrie Crowther, Marcel den Dikken, Xuan-Nga Kam, Gita Martohardjono, Ricardo Otheguy (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 20, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Zu-infinitives in German: Lexicon or syntax?
Owen Rambow (Columbia)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 22, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Systematically misleading Logical Forms
Alex Orenstein (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

September 27, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

The Subset Principle: Essential but Impossible?
William Sakas (Hunter College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 29, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Coping with success and failure - as a graduate student and beyond
Christina Tortora (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 6, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Linearization asymmetries revealed by post-syntactic readjustment
David Embick (University of Pennsylvania)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

October 11, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

What do you expect?
Colin Phillips (University of Maryland)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 18, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Escaping sentential stress
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (Syracuse University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 20, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Phonological Evidence
Paul de Lacy (Rutgers University)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

October 25, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Neuter gender and interface vulnerability in child L2/2L1 Dutch: Processing or representation problems?
Leonie Cornips (Meertens Instituut, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 27, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

How to deal with a journal
Marcel den Dikken, Erika Troseth, Robert Vago and Tomoyuki Yabe (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 1, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Distributive reduplication in Telugu
Rahul Balusu (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 3, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

TBA (Syntax) - cancelled
Benjamin Bruening (University of Delaware)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

November 8, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

ERP responses in language-impaired children reveal a domain-specific neural correlate for syntactic dependencies
Heather van der Lely (University College, London)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 10, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Mass nouns, number marking, and semantic variation
Gennaro Chierchia (Milan - Bicocca)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

November 15, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Hidden clauses in Korean nominative object constructions
Yunju Suh (Stony Brook University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 22, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Prototypicality in Sentence Production
Gregory Murphy (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 29, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Scrambling and linearization
Heejeong Ko (Stony Brook University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 1, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

A Cartesian-Uniformitarian approach to Creole formation
Michel DeGraff (MIT)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

December 1, 2005 (Thursday)

Organizing the world's information (the world is bigger than you think!)
Pedro J Moreno (Google)
Room 9206/9207, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

December 6, 2005 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Constructions at work: Learning syntactic generalizations
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 8, 2005 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

To Get that Competitive Edge
TBA (TBA)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 9, 2005 (Friday)

Native and Non-native Speakers: Different Minds or Different Brains? Evidence from Behavioural and ERP Studies
Gita Martohardjono (the CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, the CUNY Graduate Center
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 13, 2005 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Feature-placing and the semantics of existential sentences
Rachel Szekely (the CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 14, 2005 (Wednesday)

Guest lecture in the Syntax Seminar
Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University)
TBA
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
See the abstract here

December 15, 2005 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Modeling language change: A population and learning perspective
Tony Kroch (UPenn)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

December 16, 2005 (Friday)

Linguistics Program Holiday Party
TBA ()
Student Lounge (room 7400)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here