The Syntax/Semantics Lecture Series

Fall 2003

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This series of talks is held at the NYU Linguistics Department, at 719 Broadway on the 4th floor in the Syntax/Semantics Lab.


Maria Rita Manzini

The Nature of Complementizers

September 22, 12 noon


David Beaver

Why not after is not before

October 3, 10:30am


Chris Potts

Keeping world and will apart: A discourse-based semantics for imperatives

October 17, 4:00pm


Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

Nominal parameters and their nature across levels and interfaces

October 20, 12 noon


Mary Kato

VP-topicalization in Brazilian Portuguese vs. European Portuguese

October 21, 10:30AM


James Higginbotham

Conditionals and Compositionality

October 27, 12 noon


Chris Barker

How scope and binding depend on order of evaluation

November 21, 3PM


Carme Picallo

November 24, 12 noon


M. Lluïsa Hernanz

From polarity to modality: the case of bien

December 1, 12 noon


Máire Noonan

The architecture of spatial PPs through German eyes

December 5, 12 noon

Last Modified: December 3, 2003