Friday Colloquia: Spring 2009

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held on Fridays at 4:00pm in the Silver center. All colloquia are followed by a reception and dinner with the speaker.


Linking phonological variation to discourses of race and place in Washington, D.C.

Robert Podesva

January 30, Siler 810

The projection problem for pragmatic inferences

Emmanuel Chemla

March 6, Silver 509

TBA

Corinne McCarthy

CANCELLED
March 13, Silver 509

Typicality Effects and the Logic of Reciprocity

Yoad Winter

March 27, Silver 705

Phi-defectiveness in Finite Clauses and Inflected Infinitivals in Brazilian Portuguese: Consequences for A-movement

Jairo Nunes

April 17, Silver 509

Distinguishing contrastive, new and given information

Elisabeth Selkirk

April 24, Silver 509

Last Modified: February 24, 2009