February 16, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

CANCELLED

February 18, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

Count Nouns are "Inherently Singular"
Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM
See the abstract here

February 19, 2010 (Friday)

SQUID
Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

February 26, 2010 GC closed due to snow day - RESCHEDULED March 26th Sociolinguistics Lunch

Hip-hop, White Immigrant Youth and AAVE: Accommodation as an identity choice Cecilia Cutler (Lehman College, CUNY) Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM. Abstract can be found here

March 2, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Swiping: Preposition Stranding + Remnant PP Extraposition Analysis
Hiroshi Hasegawa (Harvard University / Senshu University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 4, 2010 (Thursday) - Professional Development

So you want to do experimental studies in Linguistics? Panelists: Dr. Richard Schwartz (IRB Chair), Drs. Dianne Bradley, Ricardo Otheguy, and Eva Fernandez, with Lucia Pozzan and Ji Young Shim.

Room 6417, 4:15pm-6pm, CUNY-GC-365 Fifth Avenue

March 5, 2010 (Friday) - RISLUS Event

Acquisition of NYC English phonetic features by Caribbean immigrants: a pilot study
Patrick-Andre Mather (New York University)
Room C197, The CUNY Graduate Center, 4pm
See the abstract here

March 9, 2010 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics

Acquisition of the stop-spirant alternation in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children: A preliminary investigation
Leah Fabiano-Smith (SUNY, New Paltz)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center.
6:30pm - 8:00PM
See abstract here

March 11, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

The Contribution of Declarative and Procedural Memory to First and Second Language
Michael Ullman (Georgetown University)
Room 5417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM
See the abstract here

March 16, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper
TBA
Adam Szczegielniak(Harvard University / Warsaw University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

March 19, 2010 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch

Contesting Racializing Discourse in Italy: Exploring Disagreement Sequences
Valentina Pagliai (Queens College, CUNY)
Room:8201.01 (President's large conf.), The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM. Abstract can be found here

March 26, 2010 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch

Hip-hop, White Immigrant Youth and AAVE: Accommodation as an identity choice
Cecilia Cutler (Lehman College, CUNY) Room:C198, The CUNY Graduate Center 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM. Abstract can be found here

April 6, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

CANCELLED

April 8, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

Force and Focus in African American English
Lisa Green (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Room 5417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM see abstract here

April 13, 2010 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics

The prosodic consequences of unaccusativity
Tricia Irwin (New York University)
Room 7102The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. See abstract here.

April 15, 2010 (Tuesday) Professional Development

Working Towards Language Preparedness as Part of the National Defense Plan
Alison Blodgett
5417, 4:15pm-6pm, CUNY-GC-365 Fifth Avenue
See abstract here.

April 16, 2010 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch

The Life and Death of Linguistic Diversity:
Contact, restructuring and standardization in Brazilian Portuguese
Gregory Guy (New York University)
Room:C415A, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM. Abstract will be posted here

April 20, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Pritty Patel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

April 21, 2010 (Wednesday) RISLUS Reports
Inventing and Disinventing multilingualism: Is linguistics finding its language?
Sinfree Makoni, Visiting Scholar (2010)
The College of Liberal Arts, State College, PA
The CUNY Graduate Center, 4:00 p.m., Room C204. Abstract here.

May 4, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper
TBA
William Bennett (Rutgers University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

May 6, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium
Marginal Contrasts and Quasi-Allophones: Probabilistic Phonological Relationships - Phonology
Kathleen Currie Hall (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Room 5417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM. See abstract here.

May 14, 2010 (Friday) RISLUS Forum

Annual full-day research forum of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society. Click here for details.

August 25 (Wednesday)

Linguistics New (admitted) Student Orientation. 12:30pm-3:30pm, Room 5414

September 14 (Tuesday) Syntax Supper

Thomas Leu (Yale University)
Title: Generalized x-toC in Germanic
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

(Thursday) Colloquium Series

Laurence R. Horn (Yale University)
Title: Polarity after the Thirty Years War: What's the point?
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
See abstract here.

September 21 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics Supper

Eva Fernandez (Queens College & Graduate Center)
Title: Prosody affects ambiguity resolution: Some suggestive indirect evidence (and a chance to talk about bilingualism)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

September 28 (Tuesday) Syntax Supper

Marcel den Dikken, CUNY Graduate Center
Title: Positively Comparative (work done in collaboration with Yang Gu and Jie Guo, Univ. of Hong Kong). See abstract here.
Room 7102, Graduate Center, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

October 4 (Monday) Special Lecture

David Nathan, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Title: Archiving for the future, today: the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS. See abstract here.
Room 9207, Graduate Center
6:30pm-8:30pm.

October 5 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics Supper

Frances Delogu (NYU)
Title:Intensionality in sentence and discourse processing
Room 7102, The Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

October 7 (Thursday) Colloquium Series

Girma Demeke (University of Addis Ababa)
Title: Issues on WH-Questions in Amharic
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15pm-6:00pm. See abstract here.

October 12 (Tuesday) Syntax Supper

Matthew Barros, Rutgers University
Title: RNR Requires both Ellipsis and Multidominance.
Room 7102, Graduate Center
6:30pm-8:30pm. See abstract here.

October 15 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch Series

Bill Haddican (Queens College and University of York).
FACE values: variation in the meaning of mid-vowels in Northern English dialects (joint work with Hazel Richards and Paul Foulkes).See abstract here.
Room 5409, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30pm-3:30pm.

October 19 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics Supper / Syntax Supper

Speaker: Marcel den Dikken and Ji Young Shim
Title: Feature inheritance and the EPP (To be presented at the 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL-VII)
Room 7102, The Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

October 26(Tuesday) Syntax / Psycholinguistics Supper

Lucia Pozzan, Giulia Bencini, Erin Quirk, Nancy Eng, & Virginia Valian: The acquisition of English main and embedded questions in child and adult SLA: An elicited production study.

Lidiya Tornyova & Virginia Valian: A hypothesis testing model of question formation: Evidence from auxiliary omission and inversion.

Giulia Bencini, Lucia Pozzan, Erica Knowles, & Virginia Valian: Lexical, conceptual, and syntactic influences on syntactic priming in monolingual and bilingual English speakers.
Room 7102, Graduate Center
6:30pm-8:30pm

November 2 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics Supper

Ted Gibson & Evelina Fedorenko (MIT)
Title: Inter-subject analysis of co-variation (ISAC): a new method for investigating syntactic representations and processes.
Room 7102, The Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

November 9 (Tuesday) Syntax Supper

Coppe van Urk, MIT
Title: Restating Visser's Generalization
Room 7102, Graduate Center
6:30pm-8:30pm. See abstract here.

November 11 (Thursday) Colloquium Series

Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University)
Title: Language lessons from a mute child
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15pm-6:00pm. See abstract here.

November 12(Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch Series

Saúl Mercado(Vassar)
Title: Linguistic Citizenship: Negotiating Citizenship, Language and Education in Barcelona, Spain
Room 6494, The CUNY Graduate Center
2pm-4pm. See abstract here.

November 16 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics Supper

Laura Kertz (Brown University)
Title:Reconstruction effects under ellipsis: Where do they come from?
Room 7102, The Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

November 18 (Thursday) Professional Development

LINGUISTICS AND BUSINESS: The Perfect Match???
I'm a linguist working as a software engineer in the
financial industry..."
"I'm a linguist who has worked for Xerox…"

Invited Speakers:
Dr. Eiji Nishimoto (Senior Software Engineer, FactSet Research Systems)
Dr. Svetlana Godjevac (Senior Manager, Iron Mountain)

Room 6417, The Graduate Center
4:15-6pm

November 23(Tuesday) Syntax Supper

Neil Myler, New York University
Title: Light verbs, hidden relatives, and control: The case of derived nominals
Room 7102, Graduate Center
6:30pm-8:30pm. See abstract here.

November 30 (Tuesday) Psycholinguistics Supper

Kelly Garvey & Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University)
Title: Nasal place assimilation and the perceptibility of place contrasts.
Room 7102, The Graduate Center
6:30-8:30pm. See abstract here.

December 2 (Thursday) Linguistics Program Open House
Open to all prospective students.
2pm-3:30pm, room C197. Please rsvp to Nishi.

December 2 (Thursday) Colloquium Series

Donca Steriade(MIT)
Title: Rhyming evidence for intervals.
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15pm-6:00pm. See abstract here.

December 3 (Friday) Sociolinguistics

John Singler (New York University)
Title: Stereotypes, Stigma, and Agency in Vernacular Liberian English
Room C197, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30pm-3:30pm. See abstract here.

December 3 (Friday) Special Lecture
The Endangered Language Initiative and the Endangered Language Alliance presents:

Andrew Hippisley and Greg Stump (University of Kentucky)
Title: Negotiating the terrain of Pamiri grammar: Hazards and Prospects
Room C205, The CUNY Graduate Center
6pm-7:30pm. See abstract here.

December 7 (Tuesday) Syntax Supper

Andrei Antonenko, SUNY Stony Brook
Title: tba
Room 7102, Graduate Center
6:30pm-8:30pm

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November 13-15, 2008 - The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

The conference page can be found here.

January 15-17, 2009 - Conference on the foot in Phonology

The conference page can be found here.

January 17-18, 2008 - The CUNY Phonology Forum

The forum page can be found here.

November 22, 2008 - The CUNY/SUNY/NYU/YU MiniConference

The conference page can be found here.