Linguistics Circle

Spring 2008 Schedule

Linguistics Circle (LingCircle) is a weekly to biweekly colloquium and workshop series sponsored by the CU Linguistics Department. LingCircle events are open to everyone and no registration is required. All events are held on Wednesdays in Hellems 229 from 4:00-5:00, unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday, January 16

Barbra Meek
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan
Rethinking Language Revitalization

Wednesday, February 6

Bhuvana Narasimhan
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
What is an Agent?: Ergative Case-Marking in Early Child Hindi

Wednesday, March 5

Lise Menn, Brent Nicholas and Ellen Schmidt
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
Phonological Development: Forty Years of Evolving Models of Child Phonology

Wednesday, March 12

Colorado Linguistics Doctoral Student Talks

Jill Duffield
CU Linguistics
Here's a Structure that's not so Simple: Revisiting the Acquisition of Relative Clause Constructions

Jeff Stebbins
CU Linguistics
The Reductive Processes of Southeast Asian Tonogenesis

Wednesday, March 19

Special location: Muenzinger D428 (ICS conference room)

James Pustejovsky
Department of Computer Science
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Temporal Annotation and Linguistic Generalizations

Wednesday, April 2

Special location: UMC 247

Linguistics Circle Capstone Speaker: Bernard Comrie
University of California, Santa Barbara and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Exploiting the World Atlas of Language Structures: New Directions in Areal Typology

Wednesday, April 9

Amina Mettouchi
University of Nantes
Aspect in a Non-Tensed, Asymmetrical Language: Kabyle (Berber, Afroasiatic)

Wednesday, April 16

No LingCircle today; attend Zygmunt Frajzyngier's ICS colloquium on 4/18

Wednesday, April 30

Kerry Linfoot
United States Air Force Academy
Conversational Maxims in Encounters with Law Enforcement Officers