Colloquium: Claire Halpert
Holton 190Linguistics colloquium: Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota "Raising Hell" In this talk, I investigate cross-linguistic patterns that arise in raising-to-subject constructions. Current theories of raising-to-subject are built around the English pattern shown below, where (1) and (2) are grammatical but (3) is not: […]
Colloquium: Shira Hahn
Holton 190Our last colloquium talk of the semester will be a "Careers" talk by Shira Hahn, Ph.D., a linguist and scientist at GN Resound in Glenview, Illinois, one of the world's largest manufacturers of hearing aids. Please join us as Dr. […]
S-Group: Tue Trinh
Johnston G35The s-group will meet this coming Friday 2/26, in Johnston G35, at 12 noon. Tue Trinh will address some criticisms against the formal approach to alternatives.
P-Group: Jae Yung Song
Johnston G33The first P-Group meeting of the semester will take place this Friday. Jae Yung will give a demonstration of how ultrasound imaging technique can be used to study tongue motions during speech production. It will offer an unique experience to […]
Colloquium: John Heilmann
Holton 190Our first colloquium of the spring semester takes place this coming Friday, Feb. 26, at 3pm in Holton 190: John Heilmann (UWM Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Center for Biomedical Data and Language Processing) "Analysis of Expository and Persuasive […]
S-Group: Mohammed Abuhaib and Turki Alwahibee
Johnston G35At this week's S-Group meeting, Mohammed Abuhaib and Turki Alwahibee will discuss their joint work in progress on direct object relatives in Najdi. Fri, Mar 11, 12 noon, Johnston G35 (Syntax/Semantics Lab) All are welcome!
P-Group: Zafer Al Lababidi
Johnston 137This week's P-Group meeting: Zafer Al Lababidi: "The L2 Perceptual Mapping of Arabic and English Consonants by American English Learners" Fri, Mar 11, 1pm, Johnston 137 All are welcome!
Colloquium: Elena Mihas, James Cook University
Holton 190Universals and variation in the organization of talk: Evidence from Alto Perené Arawak of Peru Based on extensive linguistic an ethnographic fieldwork in 2009-2015, this talk will examine a variety of language-specific linguistic resources and generic base of interactional organization […]
Colloquium: Gabriel Rei-Doval, UWM Spanish & Portuguese
Holton 190Language Contact and Language Standardization in Iberian Perspective: the Galician Case Gabriel Rei-Doval is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research interests include Hispanic sociolinguistics, historiography of linguistics, language shift and […]