WINTER 2009 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

January 15
Tsuyoshi Ono
University of Alberta
Sandra Thompson
UC Santa Barbara Linguistics
"Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical ('part-of-speech') category"

January 29
Marta López-Izquierdo
Paris VIII
Viola Miglio
UC Santa Barbara Spanish and Portuguese
"How (Historical) Pragmatics and Genre Affect Spanish 'dizque' as an Evidential Strategy"

February 12
Alejandra Vidal
CONICET-CIC.Argentina
"The Chaco region as a linguistic area"

February 26
Ben Rampton
King’s College, London
“Style Contrasts, Migration, and Social Class”


March 5
You-Jing Lin
Academia Sinica and UCSB
“Tone and Intonation in Zhuokeji rGyalrong”

March 12
Suzanne Stevenson,
University of Toronto
Academia Sinica and UCSB
“Bridging the Gap between Syntax and the Lexicon: Computational Models of Acquiring Multiword Lexemes”