Welcome to the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York. We offer MA and PhD degrees in theoretical linguistics. Our Executive Officer is Gita Martohardjono. Our Assistant Program Officer is Nishi Bissoondial.

announcements

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See video of Noam Chomsky's lecture from February 17th, 2011 at the Graduate Center.

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Spring 2012 courses
The Spring 2012 course schedule is available here.

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Visit the Admissions Office website for an online application. Complete applications due Jan.15, 2013.

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upcoming events

Spring 2012


7 February, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Bradley Larson (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
Title: WYSIWYG RNR
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

9 February, Thursday, Colloquium
Maria Polinsky (Harvard)
Title:The Syntax of Ergatives
Room: 6417
4:15pm-6pm

17 February, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Kevin Knight (USC)
Title: Language Translation and Code-Breaking
Room: C197
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

24 February, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Naushad UzZaman (Rochester)
Title: TBA
Room: TBA
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

24 February, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Sonia Das (NYU)
Title: TBA
Room: 3309
2pm-4pm

28 February, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Caitlin Light (Univ. Penn.)
Title: TBA
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

2 March, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Sarah Hoffman (FactSet)
Title: TBA
Room: TBA
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

8 March, Thursday, Colloquium
Luis Lopez (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
Title: TBA
Room: 6417
4:15pm-6pm

13 March, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse Univ.)
Title: TBA
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

15 May, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Christina Tortora (CUNY GC & CSI)
Title: TBA
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

31 May– 1 June 2012 Endangered Language Initiative
Language Revitalization in the 21st Century: Going Global, Staying Local (click on ELI hyperlink for more information)
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Tīmoti Kāretu, Māori / Jesse Little Doe Baird, Wôpanâak



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Previously held lectures/events :

11 -13 January, 2012
Phonology Forum: Conference on the Segment
(Click on the hyperlink for more information.)


Fall 2011

30 August, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Cori Anderson (Princeton Univ.)
Title: Case & Event Structure: Evidence from Russian & Lithuanian
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

1 September, Thursday, Colloquium
Adam Albright (MIT)
Title: Grammar constrains phonological complexity
Room: C198 (Concourse Level)
4:15pm-6pm

8 September, Thursday, Professional Development
LaTeX Workshop part I
Room: C415B
4:15pm-6:15pm

9 September, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Heng Ji (CUNY, Queens & Graduate Center)
Title: Leveraging Redundancy for Cross-Source Information Extraction
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

13 September, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Julio Villa-Garcia (UConn)
Title: On Complementizer Reduplication: The Case of Spanish
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

15 September, Thursday, Professional Development
LaTeX Workshop part II
Room: C415B
4:15pm-6:15pm

16 September, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Rudi Gaudio (SUNY Purchase)
Title: Naijá Dey Laugh: Stand-up Comedy and the Nigerian Pidgin Nation
Room: 8106
2pm-4pm

20 September, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Erin Quirk (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: A computational analysis of grammar change and grammar similarity
Tomonori Nagano (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: Acquisition of English verb transitivity by native speakers of Japanese
Taylor Cassidy & Danny Nassre (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: Speech segmentation and word discovery: PARSER
Room: 7102
6:30-8:00 pm

22 September, Thursday, Professional Development
LaTeX Workshop part III
Room: C415B
4:15pm-6:15pm

27 September, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Inna Livitz (NYU)
Title: Silence of PRO and the interaction of focus with embedded pronominal subjects
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

6 October, Thursday, Colloquium
Kay Gonzalez-Vilbazo (University of Illinois at Chicago)
(in collaboration with Laura Bartlett)
Title: Merge, select, and code-switching
Room: 9207
4:15pm-6pm

11 October, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center) & Stefanie Nickels (McGill University)
Title: Center-embedded sentences: What’s pronounceable is comprehensible
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

14 October, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Alexis Heloir (DFKI)
Title: Sign Language Avatars: Animation and Comprehensibility
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

18 October, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Satarupa Das (GC CUNY)
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

25 October, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Bob Frank (Yale University)
Title: What can we learn about mental grammar from statistical learning?
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

1 November, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Dustin Chacon (Maryland)
Title: Word Formation in the Narrow Syntax
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

3 November, Thursday, Colloquium
Martin Hackl (MIT)
Title: Detecting Covert Movement in Real Time
Room: C201 (Concourse Level)
4:15pm-6pm

4 November, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Karl Swinehart (UPenn)
Title: Commitment in Commentary: Evidentiality in Aymara Political Discource
Room: 7395
2pm-4pm

8 November, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Andrew Rosenberg (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
Title: It's not just what you say, but how you say it: Prosodic analysis and its application to training and assessment of non-native speakers
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

11 November, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Smaranda Muresan (Rutgers)
Title: Learning for Deep Language Understanding
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

15 November, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Juan Romeu Fernandez (UMadrid)
Title:  A fine-grained structure for spatial elements
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

Canceled: 29 November, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Julien Musolino (Rutgers University)
Title: Genes, language, and the nature of explanations: The case of Williams Syndrome
Room: 7102
6:30-8:00 pm

Canceled: 6 December, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Ananda Lima (UCLA)
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm

1 December, Thursday, Colloquium
Robert Vago (CUNY - Queens College / Graduate Center)
Title: In Support of Stratal Optimality Theory:  The x-Tier Phonology of Hungarian
Room: 9207
4:15pm-6pm

2 December, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Danny Erker (NYU)
Title: Of categories and continua: discrete and gradient properties of sociophonetic variation
Room: 7395
2pm-4pm

2 December, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Yejin Choi (Stony Brook)
Title: In Search of Styles in Language: Identifying Deceptive Product Reviews, Wikipedia Vandalism, and the Gender of Authors via Statistical Stylometric Analysis
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm

13 December, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Ji Shim (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: Word order variation in code-switching
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm


All lectures and events are held at the CUNY Graduate Center.