The Circle is a weekly forum for the discussion of the descriptive, empirical, and theoretical study of syntax and semantics that features the presentation of ongoing research by members of the Berkeley Linguistics Department and other departments, as well as the presentation of previously published works.

 

Mondays, 12:30-2:00

 

211 Dwinelle Hall

 

Line Mikkelsen

mikkelsen at berkeley.edu

Lynn Nichols

nich at berkeley.edu

 

 

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Linguistics

  

 

12 september

Keith Johnson will present on statistical methods in linguistics.

 

19 september

In preparation for Jóhanna Barðdal's colloquium talk,  Corey Yoquelet will lead discussion of an article entitled "The acquisition of subjecthood" (P. Cole, W. Harbert, G. Hermon, & S. N. Sridhar. 1980. Language 56:719-743).

 

26 september

Larry Hyman will present on noun phrase structure in Aghem.

 

3 october

Jisup Hong will lead discussion of Chris Kennedy's (2003) paper "Ellipsis and syntactic representation" (In Kerstin Schwabe and Suzanne Winkler, eds. The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structure. Benjamins, 29-53).

 

10 october

No meeting. (We will be resting after attending the Workshop on Identity in Ellipsis.)

 

17 october

Maziar Toosarvandani will present a talk entitled  "Leaving v behind: Ellipsis in Farsi complex predicates."

 

24 october

Marc Ettlinger will present a talk entitled "Varieties of serial verb constructions in Kuki-Thaadow (Tibeto-Burman)." (Background reading: Mark Baker & Osamuyimen T. Stewart. 2002. "A serial verb construction without constructions." Ms., Rutgers University. Download here.)

 

31 october

Judith Tonhauser (Stanford U.) will present a talk entitled "Temporality in the nominal domain: What 'future' means for individuals."  Abstract available here.

 

7 november

Simon Harrison (EAP Visiting Scholar) will present on aspects of sign language syntax.

 

14 november

Lynsey Wolter (U. California, Santa Cruz) will present a talk entitled "More remarks on this and that." Abstract available here.

 

21 november

No meeting. (We will be resting after attending the Workshop on Language Documentation.)

 

28 november (LSA practice talks)

Rebecca Cover. "Focus on ko: The syntax and semantics of identificational focus in Pulaar."

Nick Fleisher. "The syntax of possession-obligation modals: Evidence from expletives."

 

5 december (LSA practice talks)

Michael Houser & Maziar Toosarvandani. "A non-syntactic template for syntactic noun incorporation."

Yuni Kim. "Mobile affixes and affix ordering in Huave."