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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Events in 2009

January 15 - 17, 2009 (Thursday - Friday)

CUNY Conference on the Foot
See the conference website

February 24, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

On QR and Scrambling in Russian: A Unification Attempt
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (Stony Brook University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

March 6, 2009 (Friday)

Linguistics Program Open House
Room C197, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:30PM
All welcome.  Please rsvp to Nishi Bissoondial at nbissoondial@gc.cuny.edu

March 10, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Polarity and Degree in "so totally" Constructions
Patricia Irwin (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

March 19 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

A Career in Linguistic Fieldwork/Fieldwork in a Linguistics Career
Chris Collins, (NYU); Alice Harris, (SUNY Stony Brook); Daniel Kaufman, (CUNY); Peter Slomanson, (CUNY)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

March 24, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Predicate Fronting and its Consequences: Ergativity in Chol
Jessica Coon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

March 26, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Attitudinal Objects
Friederike Moltmann (American University of Paris)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 30, 2009 (Monday) - RISLUS Reports

Increasing Efficacy in Academic English Instruction: A Case Study Seeking the Correct Balance between Contrastive Analysis Focus on Form and Sociolinguistic Awareness Raising
Niesha Ziehmke
Room C201, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:30 PM -
See the details here

April 1, 2009 (Wednesday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6494, CUNY Graduate Center
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Xuan-Nga Kam will defend her disseration, Contributions of statistical induction to models of syntax acquisition
This is an open defense; all are welcome!

April 2, 2009 (Thursday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 3306, CUNY Graduate Center
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Mamori Sugita will defend her disseration, The syntax and semantics of Japanese –te iru and –te aru
This is an open defense; all are welcome!

April 2, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Context and/or Anaphora
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

April 3, 2009 (Wednesday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 3305, CUNY Graduate Center
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Malgorzata (Malgosia) Szupica-Pyrzanowski will defend her disseration, Morphological and Phonological Contributions to the Production of Verbal Inflection in Adult L2 Learners and Patients with Agrammatic Aphasia
This is an open defense; all are welcome!

April 7, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Experiencing a phase: Experiencer predicates, agentivity, and phases in Catalan and Mayangna
Ricard Viñas de Puig (Purdue University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

April 23, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Is a sociolinguistics of a linguistic individual across a life span feasible?
Sinfree Makoni (Penn State University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

April 27, 2009 (Monday) - RISLUS Reports

Dealing with increasing linguistic diversity in multicultural Europe
Guus Extra
Room C198, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:30 PM -
See the details here

April 28, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

On the Typology of Pronouns: Two Types of Anaphor Resolution
Patrick Grosz & Pritty Patel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

May 1, 2009 (Friday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 3307, CUNY Graduate Center
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Shukhan Ng will defend her disseration, Processing Chinese empty categories
This is an open defense; all are welcome!

May 7, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Philology Meets Theory: The Case of Classical Chinese Cliticization
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 8, 2009 (Friday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 3207, CUNY Graduate Center
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Amit Shaked will defend her disseration, Attachment Ambiguity in Hebrew Complex Nominals: Prosody and Parsing
This defense is open to the GC community.

May 12, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Existential and Antipassive in Tagalog
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

May 14, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Gemination as optimization: The prosody of loanwords in Japanese
Junko Ito (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 15, 2009 (Friday)

SQUID
Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development
Room C197, The CUNY Graduate Center
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
You can read more details here

May 12, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Existential and Antipassive in Tagalog
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

May 14, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Gemination as optimization: The prosody of loanwords in Japanese
Junko Ito (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 15, 2009 (Friday)

SQUID
Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development
Room C197, The CUNY Graduate Center
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
You can read more details here

May 22, 2009 (Friday)

The annual one-day research forum of RISLUS
See more information at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/rislus/

May 28, 2009 (Thursday)

Graduation Ceremony
11 AM -
Avery Fisher Hall

August 28, 2009 (Friday)

New Student Orientation
11:00am - 1:00pm
Room 7102

September 8, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Two Types of Classifier Languages
Peter Jenks (Harvard University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 15, 2009 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Language and memory for motion events: The asymmetry between source and goal paths
Laura Lakusta (Montclair State University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 17, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Getting dependent feet to toe the line: Asymmetrical application of segmental processes in Malay
Ann Delilkan (City Tech, CUNY)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

September 22, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Cross-linguistic variation and inverse scope – The case of Palestinian Arabic
Ivy Sichel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

September 24 - 25, 2009 (Thursday - Friday)

ALFALito: Cuestiones Lingüísticas en Relación con la Diáspora Latinoamericana

Room 9206/7 The CUNY Graduate Center
See more informaton here.

October 6, 2009 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

First and second language processing of relative clause attachment ambiguities
Nazik Dinçtopal (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 13, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Two modes of proportion? Most and more than half
Stephanie Solt (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 20, 2009 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Three factors in second language acquisition of English interrogatives
Lucia Pozzan & Erin Quirk (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

October 27, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Adjectival Modification in Javanese
Jozina Vander Klok (McGill University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 3, 2009 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Questions: Movement or Constructions?
Ben Ambridge (University of Liverpool)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 10, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Irish verbal paradigms and the pronominal structure of inflection
Jonathan Brennan (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 12, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

that’s nothing: the grammar of complementizer omissibility
Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

November 17, 2009 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Numerical cognition in the absence (or temporary unavailability) of language for number
Michael C. Frank (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

November 24, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

CANCELLED

December 1, 2009 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Shifting senses in semantic development
Hugh Rabagliati (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

December 3, 2009 (Thursday)

Linguistics Department Open House
Room C198, The CUNY Graduate Center
2:00 PM -
After the Open House, prospective students are invited to attend our colloquium (Renee Blake, 4:15pm-6pm). Additionally, upon instructor approval, prospective students may “sit in” on any of our classes during the week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4. Please RSVP/contact Nishi if you have any questions at: nbissoondial@gc.cuny.edu.

December 3, 2009 (Thursday) - Colloquium

“All O’ We is One?”: Language Use and Ideologies in a Mixed-Race Caribbean Community
Renée Blake (New York University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here.

December 5, 2009 (Saturday) - Colloquium

SYNC 2009 (a.k.a. CUNY-SUNY-NYU Mini-conference)
More info here
Yale University, New Haven
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

December 8, 2009 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Topic...Comment!
Hornstein's Movement Approach to PRO
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM