The Circle is a weekly forum dedicated to discussion of the descriptive, experimental, and theoretical study of syntax and semantics, featuring presentations of ongoing research by members of the Berkeley Linguistics Department and other departments, as well as discussion of previously published works.

Mondays, 12:30-2:00 pm

1303 Dwinelle Hall

Amy Campbell
Clara Cohen

spring 2009
fall 2008
spring 2008
fall 2007
spring 2007
fall 2006
spring 2006
fall 2005

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics

NEXT MEETING:

23 november
Kimi Akita will present his work on the syntax and semantics of ideophones in Japanese.

UPCOMING MEETINGS:

30 november
Gary Holland

7 december
LSA Practice Talks

PAST MEETINGS:

16 november
Crossover meeting with the UC Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group. This meeting is intended to increase awareness of the kinds of research currently being pursued by both groups. To this end, several people from each group will present summaries of a current research project, including goals and methodologies.
Important note: This week only we will meet in Sutardja Dai Hall, room 254. Lunch will be provided beginning at 12:30, and the presentations will begin at 1:00.

9 november
Amy Campbell will deliver a practice talk for NELS entitled "Meaning Targets in Syntax and Morphology". This talk proposes a novel analysis of agreement in Hupa (Athabaskan) and explores one mechanism by which morphological processes may be compelled and constrained.

2 november
Syntax Circle will not meet this week due to QP Fest.

26 october
Russell Rhodes will present his work on tautologies.

19 october
Laura Whitton (Stanford University) will deliver a talk entitled "Can We Agree to Disagree? Gender Mismatches in Tigrinya".

12 october
Alice Gaby will speak on "For want of want: the encoding of desire in (a few) Australian languages".

5 october
Michael Ellsworth

28 september
[POSTPONED] David Burkett and other members of the UC Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group will present overviews of their current research projects. Important note: For this week only, we will meet from 1-3pm in 1229 Dwinelle.

21 september
Alex Bratkievich will give a talk entitled "The Coordination-Subordination Continuum in Chungli Ao".

14 september
Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz) will speak on "Subjects, Configurationality, and VSO Order". This paper considers how best to understand VSO order of one type, how the syntax proposed interacts with a supposedly universal obligatory subject requirement, and also how it interacts with constraints on ellipsis.

31 august
Clara Cohen will be presenting last year's Ling220B experiment in a talk entitled "An Empirical Approach to Nearly Free Control."