WINTER 2008 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

January 10
Bernard Comrie and Tania Kuteva
UCSB and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
"Complexity and Relative Clauses: The Case of Creole Languages"

January 24
Toshio Ohori
University of Tokyo
"Suspended Clauses in Japanese Discourse: Their Functions and Acquisition"

January 31
Mira Ariel
Tel Aviv University
"Or Constructions: Meaning and Use"

February 14
Wally Chafe
UCSB, Linguistics Department
"What Language Can Tell Us about the Nature of Thought (and Why We Should Care)"

February 28
Suzanne Wertheim
Center for Advanced Study of Language, Univerity of Maryland/University of California, Los Angeles
"The Macro-, the Micro-, and the Morphosyntactic: Social Context and Influential Grammar"

March 6
Paul Hopper
Carnegie Mellon
"Typology and an Emergent Biclausal Construction in English"