events and series

syntax supper

The CUNY Syntax Supper (formerly the CUNY Syntax Lunch) is a series of biweekly talks on syntax and its interfaces with semantics and morphology, given by students, faculty, and visiting scholars, usually from institutions in the greater Metropolitan area.

Syntax Suppers are held in room 7102 at the Graduate Center on alternate Tuesday evenings, from 6:30 to roughly 8 p.m. Their limited culinary component is amply compensated for by the intellectual nourishment offered by the speaker, and by the food for thought provided by the usually quite lively exchanges between the audience and the speaker. Syntax Suppers are an ideal opportunity for speakers to present the fruit of their ongoing research in an informal setting, and for the audience to learn about what's going on in syntax both inside and outside the Graduate Center.

Students and faculty of the Linguistics Program are welcome to present their work at the Syntax Supper; suggestions for outside speakers are always appreciated, too - please send all suggestions to Marcel den Dikken (MDen-Dikken@gc.cuny.edu).

In Fall 2006, "Topic... Comment!", a new series of monthly discussion sessions on seminal papers or important issues in syntax and its interface, will be introduced.

 

Spring 2008/Fall 2008 program

February 19, 2008 (Tuesday)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Nominality and genitive alignment in Austronesian languages
Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University)
See the abstract here

March 4, 2008 (Tuesday)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Topic... Comment! (Everything you always wanted to know about syntax (*but were afraid to ask))
NA (NA)
See the abstract here

March 18, 2008 (Tuesday)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Structural Constraints on Exempt Anaphors
Jeffrey T. Runner (University of Rochester)
See the abstract here

April 1, 2008 (Tuesday)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Personal Dative in Appalachian English as a Reflexive Pronoun
Anastasia Conroy (University of Maryland)
See the abstract here

April 15, 2008 (Tuesday)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic-Doubling by Their Failures
Omer Preminger (MIT)
See the abstract here

April 29, 2008 (Tuesday)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center; 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The internal structure of mixed projections
Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
See the abstract here

 

Past Programs

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