Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held in South Hall 1430 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. every Thursday afternoon during the academic quarter. When our speaker is an out-of-town guest, dinner is held in her or his honor at a local restaurant (location to be announced immediately following the colloquium). All are welcome to attend.

Graduate students who attend the colloquium series should enroll in Linguistics 272 each quarter.

SPRING 2008 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

April 3
Marianne Mithun
UCSB, Linguistics Department
"Prosody, typology, and explanation"

April 17
Haj Ross
University of North Texas
"Corridors in poetry: The shape of meaning"

May 1
Chie Sakuta
University of Tokyo
"Intonation units in Japanese and British English interviews"
Huei-ju Huang
National Taiwan University
"Tsou clause structure"

May 8
Jennifer Garland
UCSB, Linguistics Department
"'That's a great expression': Authenticity, purism, and the construction of linguistic souvenirs"

May 15
Ritva Laury and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Univerity of Helsinki and University of Turku, Finland
"Finnish relative clauses in conversation: Main clauses as emergent formulas"

May 27-29
Tom Givón
Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon/White Cloud Ranch, Ignacio, Colorado
"The genesis of syntactic complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, cognition, and evolution"

I. "The diachrony of complex verb phrases"
Tuesday, May 27, 3:30-4:45, South Hall 3519
II. "The diachrony of relative clauses"
Thursday, May 29, 9:30-10:45, South Hall 3519
III. "The acquisition of complexity"
Thursday, May 29, 3:30-4:45, South Hall 1430

Audiences may attend all three lectures in the Givón series or any one or two.

WINTER 2008 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

FALL 2007 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

SPRING 2007 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

WINTER 2007 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

FALL 2006 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

SPRING 2006 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

WINTER 2006 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

FALL 2005 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE