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Events in 2006

January 31, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

TBA (Cancelled)
Cancelled (TBA)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 7, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

What are Nepali simple correlatives?
Corinna Anderson (Yale University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 14, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Early abstraction in child language production: Evidence from structural priming
Giulia Bencini (Hunter College, CUNY)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 16, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Raising and Control in DP
Ivy Sichel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

February 23, 2006 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Using IT in the classroom: a workshop/discussion for instructors and future instructors
Eva M. Fernández, Bill McClure, and guest panelists (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 28, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Semantic and syntactic routes to floating quantification
Justin Fitzpatrick (MIT)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 2, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

What acquisition data can tell us about focus and wh-structures in ASL and LSB
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 3, 2006 (Friday)

Talkes of the Missing Link
Ricahrd Larson, Chris Collins, Marcel den Dikken, and Mark Baker (NYU/CUNY)
NYU, Silver Center 713
10:00 AM - 4:00 AM
See the abstract here

March 4, 2006 (Saturday)

The 7th CUNY/SUNY/NYU Mini-Conference
CUNY Graduate Center (NA)
Martin E. Segal Theatre(1F), CUNY Graduate Center
10:00 AM - 5:45 AM
See the abstract here

March 7, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Abstract categories or limited-scope formulae? The case of children's determiners
Virginia Valian, Stephanie Solt, and John Stewart (CUNY)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 9, 2006 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

TipsForNewInstructors.com: Developing and Teaching an Interactive Course
Janine Graziano-King and Elaine C. Klein (CUNY)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 14, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Dative Inversion predicates: Agreement, syntactic positions, and locality
Susana Huidobro (Stony Brook)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 16, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Phonetic enhancement: Communication or computation?
Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins University)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 21, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

On-Line Methods in Children's Language Processing
Organizers: Irina Sekerina and Eva Fernández (CUNY)
The CUNY Graduate Center
9:00 AM -
See the abstract here

March 22, 2006 (Wednesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

On-Line Methods in Children's Language Processing
Organizers: Irina Sekerina and Eva Fernández (CUNY)
The CUNY Graduate Center
9:00 AM -
See the abstract here

March 23, 2006 (Thursday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2006)
Organizers: Dianne Bradley, Eva Fernández, & Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY)
Concourse Level, The CUNY Graduate Center
8:15 AM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 24, 2006 (Friday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

March 25, 2006 (Saturday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

March 28, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Re-Distributed Morphology: What minimalism has to say about the pieces of inflection
Benjamin Flight (Toronto)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 30, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Free Indirect Discourse: Quotation or attitude report?
Yael Sharvit (University of Connecticut)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

April 4, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Syntax Acquisition/Computational
Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 11, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

A semantic constraint on adjective ordering
Alexandra Teodorescu (Austin/McGill)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 25, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Acquisition of Interrogatives in L2
Natalie Batman (CUNY)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 27, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Economy, learning and parsing
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 2, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

CANCELLED
Joseph Sabbagh (McGill)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 4, 2006 (Thursday)

End of Semester Party
Linguistics Program ()
Linguistics Program Lounge
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 5, 2006 (Friday)

Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID 2006)
Organizers: Jed Shahar, Stephanie Solt, and Erika Troseth (CUNY Graduate Center)
Rm. C202, CUNY Graduate Center
10:00 AM - 5:10 PM
See the abstract here

May 9, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Making phonological decisions
William Idsardi (University of Maryland)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 11, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

How to say "ought" in foreign: The morphological composition and meaning of certain necessity modals [co-authored with Kai von Fintel]
Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 16, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Middle voice and anaphora without coreference
Erika Troseth (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 26, 2006 (Friday)

Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) Research Forum 2006
TBA (CUNY Graduate Center)
The Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center (9th fl)
10:00 AM -
See the abstract here

August 29, 2006 (Tuesday)

The Linguistics Program New Student Orientation
NA (NA)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 5, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

A constraint on the complexity of verb meaning
Malka Rappaport Hovav (Jerusalem)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

September 7, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Discrepancies between projection and selection: Split coordination and raising to object in Passamaquoddy
Benjamin Bruening (University of Delaware)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 12, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Comprehension of verb phrase ellipsis: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence for a content addressable pointer
Andrea Martin (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

September 14, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Long distance anaphors and blocking effects
Alessandra Giorgi (University of Venice)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 19, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

On the ontology of category-neutral roots
Lisa Levinson (NYU)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

September 21, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

On the status of null determiners
Tonia Bleam (University of Maryland)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 26, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Brain responses to filled gaps
Arild Hestvik (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

October 5, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

When we think about thinking: The acquisition of mental verbs
Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

October 10, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Topic... Comment! (On Categories)
Moderator: Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
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October 12, 2006 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Personal Webpage Workshop
Tomonori Nagano / Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room C196.02, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

October 17, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Revisiting verbs of motion
Roger Wales (La Trobe University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

October 19, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Cancelled (Sentence Processing)
Cancelled (NA)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 24, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Distinguishing between language and dialect contact in variationist syntax:
Ricardo Otheguy (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

October 26, 2006 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

The art of the poster session: Does it really have to feel like doing science in a subway car?
Eva Fernández and Dianne Bradley (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

October 31, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Retrieval interference in sentence processing
Julie Van Dyke (Haskins Laboratories)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

November 2, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Three binding paradoxes (and their derivational, Move-F resolution)
John Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 7, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Topic... Comment!
Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

November 14, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

How speakers' eye movements reflect spoken language generation
Zenzi Griffin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

November 16, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

What acquisition data can tell us about focus and wh-structures in ASL and LSB
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 21, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

The syntax of Tagalog existential sentences
Joseph Sabbagh (McGill)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

November 28, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

The visual M170 and morphological decomposition
Eytan Zweig (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

November 30, 2006 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Turkish 'pre-stressing' suffixes: A syntactic account
Jaklin Kornfilt and Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (Syracuse University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 5, 2006 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Constructions
Topic... Comment! (NA)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

December 6, 2006 (Wednesday)

Language, faith and identity in Latino communities in New York City
Christian Muench (University of Frankfurt (Germany)/RISLUS)
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201
7:00 PM -
See the abstract here

December 7, 2006 (Thursday)

Program Meeting/Party
NA (NA)
Linguistics Program Lounge
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
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December 12, 2006 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Tracking the able in stable: Toward an understanding of morphological decomposition in processing and representation
Alec Marantz (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here