| 2022-2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Anna Papafragou, University of Pennsylvania | October 7, 2022 | Informativeness in language production and acquisition |
| Viola Schmitt, Humboldt University of Berlin | November 18, 2022 | World pluralities and world quantification: How do modal operators ‘use’ worlds? |
| Colin Philips, University of Maryland | February 3, 2023 | Arguments, Prediction, and Production |
| Robert Stalnaker, MIT | February 17, 2023 | Pragmatics and Semantics of Belief Attribution, De Re and De Dicto |
| Ksenia Zanon, University of Cambridge | March 24, 2023 | Negated polar questions and other negation in Russian |
| Mark Baker, Rutgers | March 31, 2023 | Upward C-Agreement and Addressee Agreement: A Unified Approach |
| Byron Ahn, Princeton University | April 14, 2023 | “Themself or Themselves?” Social and Grammatical Variation |
| David Embick, University of Pennsylvania | April 28, 2023 | Stative passives: Some new perspectives |
| 2021-2022 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Miloje Despic, Cornell University |
October 15, 2021 | Labeling and the Inverse System in Algonquian (joint work w/ Michael Hamilton) |
| Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
October 26, 2021 | A non-canonical view of causative alternation |
| David Barner, University of California San Diego |
November 19, 2021 | Inference, Alternatives, and Meaning In Language Acquisition |
| Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University |
December 3, 2021 | Compositionality in depiction and description |
| Roland Pfau, University of Amsterdam |
February 11, 2022 | Sign language negation – reconsidering typological classifications |
| Richard Meier, The University of Texas at Austin |
February 25, 2022 | ASL Was Once an Emergent Sign Language: A Quantitative View of the Early Signing Community at the American School for the Deaf and of Its Linguistic Ecology from 1817-1867 (or Since When Does UConn’s Linguistics Department Host Talks About the History of Hartford?) |
| Richard Kayne, New York University |
April 8, 2022 | Hypercomplex Inversion and the Status of Expletive Pronouns |
| Cleo Condoravdi, Stanford University |
April 22, 2022 | Only and the prejacent problem |
| 2020-2021 | ||
| Andrew Nevins, University College London | October 16, 2020 | Expressions of Paucity: Where is the Upper Bound? |
| Kamil Ud Deen, University of Hawai’i | October 23, 2020 | Empathy and Reflexive Binding in Child Japanese |
| Luisa Marti, Queen Mary University | December 4, 2020 | The numeral-noun construction: typology and semantics. |
| Laura Kalin, Princeton Univeristy | January 29, 2021 | Infixes really are (underlyingly) prefixes/suffixes: Evidence from allomorphy on the fine timing of infixation. |
| Jason Merchant, University of Chicago | February 12, 2021 | Do roots or words lexically select? New and old puzzles. |
| Hadas Kotek, MIT/Apple | March 5, 2021 | Gender representation in constructed example sentences. |
| Yasutada Sudo, University College London | April 23, 2021 | What primes what?: An experimental framework for exploring alternatives for scalar implicatures. |
| 2019-2020 | ||
| Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts | October 4, 2019 | |
| Masha Polinsky, University of Maryland | November 15, 2019 | |
| Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland | December 6, 2019 | |
| Hazel Pearson, Queen Mary University | February 21, 2020 | |
| Diane Brentari, University of Chicago | February 28, 2020 | |
| cancelled | ||
| Gary Thoms, NYU | April 24, 2020 | |
| 2018-2019 | ||
| Michael Wagner, McGill University | October 12, 2018 | The Contradiction Contour in Question Responses and Elsewhere |
| Ming Xiang, University of Chicago | October 26, 2018 | Bridging the Gap between Parsing and Interpretation through Bayesian Pragmatic Inferences |
| Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz | November 9, 2018 | Non-Intrusive Questions |
| Martina Wiltschko, University of British Columbia | November 30, 2018 | Nominal speech act structure and the distinction between grammatical person and speech act participants |
| Boris Harizanov, Stanford University | March 29, 2019 | Structural conditions on the pronunciation of movement chains: Evidence from verb doubling in Russian and VP resumption in Danish |
| Valentine Hacquard, University of Maryland | April 5, 2019 | What to learn in learning attitude and modal meanings |
| Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania | April 26, 2019 | Learnability vs. Grammar |
| 2017-2018 | ||
| Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University | September 29, 2017 | |
| Rajesh Bhatt, UMass Amherst | November 17, 2017 | |
| Florian Schwarz, UPenn | December 1, 2017 | |
| Tim Hunter, UCLA | February 16, 2018 | |
| Neil Myler, Boston University | March 2, 2018 | Some puzzles in isiXhosa causatives |
| Amy Rose Deal, Berkeley | March 30, 2018 | |
| Heather Newell, UQAM | April 6, 2018 | |
| 2016-2017 | ||
| Angelika Kratzer, UMass Amherst | September 9, 2016 | |
| Danny Fox, MIT | September 23, 2016 | |
| Rolf Noyer, UPenn | October 28, 2016 | |
| David Lightfood, Georgetown | November 18, 2016 | |
| Norvin Richards, MIT | December 2, 2016 | |
| Chris Collins, NYU | February 24, 2017 | |
| Roumyana Pancheva, USC | March 31, 2017 | |
| Ruth Kramer, Georgetown | April 14, 2017 | |
| 2015-2016 | ||
| Vera Gribanova, Stanford | September 4, 2015 | |
| Seth Cable, UMass Amherst | October 9, 2015 | The Curious Implicatures of Optional Past Tense in Tlingit (and Other Languages) |
| Brian Dillon, UMass Amherst | November 6, 2015 | Grammatical illusions in real time sentence processing: New findings and perspectives |
| Lisa Selkirk, Umass Amherst | February 19, 2016 | Edge-sensitivity in Bantu sentence tonology: Luganda, Xitsonga, Bemba |
| Klaus Abels, UCL | February 26, 2016 | Locality and identity in sluicing |
| David Poeppel, NYU | March 25, 2016 | |
| Kristen Syrett, Ruters | April 1, 2016 | |
| Heidi Harley, Arizona | April 28, 2016 | |
| 2014-2015 | ||
| Julie Legate, University of Pennsylvania | September 05, 2014 | |
| Philippe Schlenker, NYU | September 26, 2014 | |
| Bob Frank, Yale University | October 10, 2014 | |
| Jesse Snedeker(Harvard University) | October 17, 2014 | |
| Elan Dresher, University of Toronto | February 13, 2015 | |
| Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen | February 17, 2015 | |
| Omer Preminger, University of Maryland | April 10, 2015 | |
| Mats Rooth, Cornell University | April 24, 2015 | |
| Paul Kiparksy, Stanford University | May 1, 2015 | |
| 2013-2014 | ||
| Glyne Piggott, McGill University | October 25, 2013 | |
| Mark Baker, Rutgers University | November 22, 2013 | |
| Jim McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz | January 31, 2014 | |
| Jon Nissenbaum, Brooklyn College, CUNY | March 14, 2014 | |
| Liina Pylkkänen, NYU | April 11, 2014 | |
| Sabine Iatridou, MIT | April 25, 2014 | |
| Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware | May 2, 2014 | |
| 2012-2013 | ||
| Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania | September 28, 2012 | |
| Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers University | October 26, 2012 | |
| Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland | November 9, 2012 | |
| Uli Sauerland, ZAS, Berlin | November 30, 2012 | |
| Jason Merchant, University of Chicago | February 15, 2013 | |
| Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University | April 5, 2013 | |
| Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland | April 26, 2013 | |
| Lisa Davidson, NYU | May 3, 2013 | |
| 2011-2012 | ||
| Kai von Fintel, MIT | October 21, 2011 | |
| John McCarthy, UMass, Amherst | October 28, 2011 | |
| Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago | December 2, 2011 | |
| Tania Ionin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | December 8, 2011 | |
| Karin Stromswold, Rutgers University | 10 February, 2012 | |
| Alec Marantz, NYU | 23 March, 2012 | |
| Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University | 13 April, 2012 | |
| Rajesh Bhatt, UMass, Amherst | 27 April, 2012 | |
| 2010-2011 | ||
| Norvin Richards, MIT | October 1, 2010 | Affix support and the EPP |
| Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware | November 12, 2010 | Embedded wa-phrases, predication & judgement theory |
| Danny Fox, MIT | December 3, 2010 | Relevance and Presuppostion projection |
| Martin Hackl, MIT | February 4, 2011 | |
| Rolf Noyer(University of Pennsylvania) | February 25, 2011 | Proto-Indo-European Accentuation |
| Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland | March 25, 2011 | Two Grammers for Bound Pronouns |
| David Embick, University of Pennsylvania | April 8, 2011 | Dimensions of, PF Interface Visibility |
| Nina Hyams, UCLA | April 22, 2011 | When tense and aspect compete in child language |
| 2009-2010 | ||
| Elena Guerzoni(USC) | October 2, 2009 | Negative Concord, Presuppositions and Focus |
| Raffaella Zanuttini(Yale) | October 9, 2009 | Subject-verb agreement in Appalachian English |
| Adam Albright, MIT | October 16, 2009 | Inflection class consistency without inflection class features |
| William G. Sakas, Hunter College | October 30, 2009 | Disambiguating Syntactic Triggers |
| Ashwini Deo, Yale | December 4, 2009 | Unifying the Imperfective and the Progressive: Partitions as Quantificational Domains |
| Heidi Harley(Univeristy of Arizona) | January 29, 2010 | The Cononical Use Constraint, Nouns, Roots, & Idiomatic Domains |
| Yosef Grodzinsky, Mcgill University | [cancelled] | |
| Masao Ochi, Osaka University/Harvard University | February 26, 2010 | On extended nominal projections in Japanese |
| Geert Booij, University of Leiden/Harvard University | March 26, 2010 | Construction morphology and the hierarchical lexicon |
| Norvin Richards, MIT | [cancelled] | |
| 2008-2009 | ||
| Morris Halle, MIT | October 2, 2008 | The Hard-Core Phonology of Modern Russian |
| Valentine Hacquard, UMD | October 9, 2008 | How Italians get what they want, or want what they get |
| Lila Gleitman, UPenn | October 16, 2008 | Fearful Symmety: ‘similar’ and similar concepts |
| Norbert Hornstein, UMD | [cancelled] | |
| Karin Stromswold, Rutgers University | [cancelled] | Who did what to whom: A cross-linguistic investigation |
| Paul Portner, Georgetown | [cancelled] | Permission and Modality |
| David Embick, University of Pennsylvania | [cancelled] | Roots, States Stative Passives |
| Maria Polinsky, Harvard | April 17, 2009 | Embedding, Relatively Speaking |