| 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 |
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| Masha Polinsky, University of Maryland |
November 15, 2019 |
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| Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland |
December 6, 2019 |
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| Hazel Pearson, Queen Mary University |
February 21, 2020 |
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| Diane Brentari, University of Chicago |
February 28, 2020 |
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David Barner, UCSD |
March 27, 2020 |
cancelled |
| Gary Thoms, NYU |
April 24, 2020 |
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| 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 |
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| Rajesh Bhatt, UMass Amherst |
November 17, 2017 |
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| Florian Schwarz, UPenn |
December 1, 2017 |
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| Tim Hunter, UCLA |
February 16, 2018 |
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| Neil Myler, Boston University |
March 2, 2018 |
Some puzzles in isiXhosa causatives |
| Amy Rose Deal, Berkeley |
March 30, 2018 |
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| Heather Newell, UQAM |
April 6, 2018 |
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| 2016-2017 |
| Angelika Kratzer, UMass Amherst |
September 9, 2016 |
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| Danny Fox, MIT |
September 23, 2016 |
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| Rolf Noyer, UPenn |
October 28, 2016 |
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| David Lightfood, Georgetown |
November 18, 2016 |
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| Norvin Richards, MIT |
December 2, 2016 |
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| Chris Collins, NYU |
February 24, 2017 |
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| Roumyana Pancheva, USC |
March 31, 2017 |
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| Ruth Kramer, Georgetown |
April 14, 2017 |
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| 2015-2016 |
| Vera Gribanova, Stanford |
September 4, 2015 |
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| 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 |
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| Kristen Syrett, Ruters |
April 1, 2016 |
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| Heidi Harley, Arizona |
April 28, 2016 |
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| 2014-2015 |
| Julie Legate, University of Pennsylvania |
September 05, 2014 |
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| Philippe Schlenker, NYU |
September 26, 2014 |
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| Bob Frank, Yale University |
October 10, 2014 |
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| Jesse Snedeker(Harvard University) |
October 17, 2014 |
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| Elan Dresher, University of Toronto |
February 13, 2015 |
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| Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen |
February 17, 2015 |
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| Omer Preminger, University of Maryland |
April 10, 2015 |
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| Mats Rooth, Cornell University |
April 24, 2015 |
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| Paul Kiparksy, Stanford University |
May 1, 2015 |
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| 2013-2014 |
| Glyne Piggott, McGill University |
October 25, 2013 |
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| Mark Baker, Rutgers University |
November 22, 2013 |
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| Jim McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz |
January 31, 2014 |
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| Jon Nissenbaum, Brooklyn College, CUNY |
March 14, 2014 |
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| Liina Pylkkänen, NYU |
April 11, 2014 |
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| Sabine Iatridou, MIT |
April 25, 2014 |
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| Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware |
May 2, 2014 |
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| 2012-2013 |
| Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania |
September 28, 2012 |
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| Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers University |
October 26, 2012 |
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| Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland |
November 9, 2012 |
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| Uli Sauerland, ZAS, Berlin |
November 30, 2012 |
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| Jason Merchant, University of Chicago |
February 15, 2013 |
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| Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University |
April 5, 2013 |
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| Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland |
April 26, 2013 |
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| Lisa Davidson, NYU |
May 3, 2013 |
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| 2011-2012 |
| Kai von Fintel, MIT |
October 21, 2011 |
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| John McCarthy, UMass, Amherst |
October 28, 2011 |
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| Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago |
December 2, 2011 |
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| Tania Ionin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
December 8, 2011 |
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| Karin Stromswold, Rutgers University |
10 February, 2012 |
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| Alec Marantz, NYU |
23 March, 2012 |
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| Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University |
13 April, 2012 |
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| Rajesh Bhatt, UMass, Amherst |
27 April, 2012 |
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| 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 |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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 |