Ling Lunch Spring 2023
| Date | Presenter | In person/online |
Topic |
| January |
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| Jan. 31st |
Kangzheng Gao | In person | Dissertation proposal: A constraint-based approach to syntactic parameter-setting |
| February | |||
| Feb. 21st |
Thanos Iliadis |
In person | The distribution of Modern Greek idhios |
| March |
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| Mar. 7th |
Robin Jenkins | In person | Verb-stranding ellipsis in Uyghur |
| Spring recess: March 12–18 | |||
| Mar. 21st |
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| Mar. 28th |
William / C.Chesi | In person | TBD |
| April |
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| Apr. 25th | Xuetong Yuan & Ka Fai |
In person + online |
Defocus leads to syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocated structures |
| Last week of class | |||
Ling Lunch Fall 2022
| Date | Presenter | In person
/ online |
Topic |
| September | |||
| Sept 6th | Omar Agha | In person | Homogeneity effects in English habitual sentences |
| Sept 13th | Evan Zysman & William Snyder | In person | An acquisitional connection between VPE and contracted negation |
| Sept 20th | Qiushi Chen | In person | Deriving Mizenkei in Old Japanese verbal morphology |
| Sept 27th | Mingjiang Chen | In person | A decomposition analysis of Agent: Evidence from adverbial distribution |
| Zixi Liu | In person | At the crossroads of aspect and passivization: Agent in Mandarin locative inversion | |
| October | |||
| Oct 4th | Yuya Noguchi | In person | Embedded wh-questions, concealed questions, and wh-movement in Japanese |
| Oct 11th | Shangyan Pan | In person | Non-active voice in Mandarin |
| Oct 18th | Sharmin Ahmadi | In person | On double object construction in Ardalani Kurdish |
| Oct 25th | Hanyu Liu | In person | An ultra-high tone in Changsha Mandarin |
| November | |||
| Nov 1st | Athanasios Iliadis | In person | On asymmetric extractions from coordinate structures |
| Nov 8th | Yusuke Yagi & Yuta Tatsumi | Online | Some issues in binding and crossover of plural pronouns |
| Nov 29th | Tarcisio Dias | In person | Structuring idiomatic words: the case of Brazilian Portuguese augmentatives |
| Last week of class | |||
Ling Lunch Spring 2022
| Date | Presenter | In person
/ online |
Topic |
| February | |||
| Feb 15th | Shengyun Gu | Online | Dissertation prospectus defense |
| Feb 22nd | In person | Micro-talk Practice | |
| March | |||
| March 1st | Guest Talk: Maria Kouneli (Leipzig) | In person | N-to-D movement in the Kipsigis DP |
| March 8th | Beccy Lewis |
In person | An intervention effect in associative plural constructions (PLC practice talk) |
| Spring recess: March 13–19 | |||
| March 29th | Eva Gan | In person | Syntactic structure of argument: Wh-questions in Hong Kong Sign Language (GP1) |
| April | |||
| April 5th | Penelope Daniel | In person | Deriving SOVC word order in Mandinka
(ACAL Practice talk) |
| April 12th | Tarcisio Dias | In person | Hyper-raising and the voiding of freezing effects
(CLS58 Practice talk) |
| April 26th | Kai-Fai Yip & Comfort Ahenkorah (Yale) | In person | Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns and partial Copy Deletion |
| Last week of class | |||
Ling Lunch Fall 2021
| Date | Presenter |
Topic |
Time |
In person/ via zoom |
| September 21, 2021 | Yuya Noguchi | On a correlation between focus and island sensitivity in Japanese elliptical constructions | 12:30pm | via zoom |
| October 19, 2021 | Penelope Daniel | Differential Argument Marking and case assignment by a functional head | 12:30pm | In person (Oak 338) |
| October 26, 2021 | Reserved for Prof. Artemis Alexiadou’s talk (Venue: TBA) | |||
| November 2, 2021 | Sarah Asinari | Numeral phrases in Slavic & Uralic languages | 12:30pm | In person (Oak 338) |
| November 9, 2021 | Teruyuki Mizuno | A Past-as-Past account of unattainable desires | 12:30pm | In person (Oak 338) |
| November 16, 2021 | Paula Fenger | Limits of Umlaut in Sinhala | 12:30pm | In person (Oak 338) |
| Nov 21-27 Thanksgiving recess | ||||
| November 30, 2021 | Rebecca Lewis | Singular ‘us’ in British English | 12:30pm | In person (Oak 338) |
Ling Lunch Spring 2020
| Date | Name | Topic | Time | Room |
| January 28, 2020 | Muyi Yang | Strategies of question formation with Q-particles | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| February 11, 2020 | Si Kai Lee | Subject to Topichood in Singlish | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| March 3, 2020 | Yuta Tatsumi | A semantic constraint on pronominal elements in Japanese | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| March 31, 2020 | Pavel Koval | The hyper-sensitive subject agreement in Akebu | 12:30pm | Virtual session |
| April 21, 2020 | Penelope Daniel | The selectional limitations of feel like | 12:30pm | Virtual session |
| April 28, 2020 | Sarah Asinari | Wh-Quantifier Float: Not A/A’ but ±Q Feature | 12:30pm | Virtual session |
Ling Lunch Fall 2019
| Date | Name | Topic | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2019 | Renato Lacerda | Subject Topics | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| October 8, 2019 | Paula Fenger & Gísli Harðarson | One classy number – linking morphemes in Dutch and German | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| October 22, 2019 | Rebecca Lewis | Subjects of verbal gerunds | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| October 29, 2019 | Yoshiki Fujiwara | (Non-)wh-scope marking in Japanese | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| November 5, 2019 | Si Kai Lee | Tenselessness in Singlish | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| November 12, 2019 | Sarah Asinari | Wh-quantifier float in Dialectal American English: Consequences for theories of Quantifier Float | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| November 19, 2019 | Sabine Laszakovits | A computational typology of syntactic dependencies | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
| December 3, 2019 | Nadine Theiler | Witness Protection | 12:30pm | Oak 338 |
See also the UConn Linguistics Events Calendar