The Circle is a weekly forum dedicated to the
discussion of the descriptive, experimental, 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.
Fridays, 3:30-5:00
215 Dwinelle Hall
Line Mikkelsen
mikkelsen at berkeley dot edu
Lynn Nichols
nich at berkeley dot edu
fall 2005
spring 2006
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
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1 september
Organizational meeting.
8 september
Michael J. Houser,
Reiko Kataoka, and Maziar Toosarvandani
will present a talk on 'Pluractional Reduplication in Western and Central Numic'.
15 september
Nick Fleisher will present a talk on 'Attribution and Evaluation'. You can read his paper here.
22 september
Judith Aissen (U. California, Santa Cruz) will present a talk on 'Accusativity in Mayan'.
Background reading:
Larsen, T. W. and W. M. Norman (1979)'Correlates of Ergativity in Mayan'.
In F. Plank (ed.) Ergativity: Towards a theory of grammatical relations, pp. 347--370. New York: Academic Press.
Aissen, J. (1999) 'Agent Focus and Inverse in Tzotzil'. Language 75(3):451-485.
Stiebels, B. (to appear) 'Agent focus in Mayan languages'. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
29 september
Russell Lee-Goldman will present on 'Relative Proform "as": An (In-Progress) Primer'.
6 october
Hannah Haynie will lead a discussion of Judith Aissen's 1999 NLLT paper 'Markedness and Subject Choice in Optimality Theory'. You can read the paper here.
13 october
Thera Crane will present on Malillo Morolong and Larry Hyman's 1977 Studies in African Linguistics paper, 'Animacy, objects, and clitics in Sesotho'.
20 october
David Allison will present the 1993 Language paper by Gundel, Hedberg, and Zacharski, 'Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse'. You can read the paper here.
27 october
Stuart Robinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) will present a talk on 'Agent Focus and Voice in Tenejapa Tseltal'.
Background reading:
Robinson, S. (2002) 'Constituent Order in Tenejapa Tzeltal' International Journal of American Linguistics 68 (1):51-80.
Aissen, J. (1997) 'On the Syntax of Obviation' Language 73 (4): 705-750.
3 november
Alex Bratkievich will present the 1988 Language paper by Fillmore, Kay, and O'Connor, 'Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone'.
17 november
Thera Crane will present a talk on 'The force of o-: Focus, assertion, and other left-periphery interactions in Oshiwambo'.
1 december
Allegra Giovine, Marilola Perez, and Russell Rhodes will present John Du Bois's 1987 Language paper 'The Discourse Basis of Ergativity' as well as Andrew Garrett's 1990 Language paper 'The origin of NP split ergativity'.
8 december (LSA practice talks)
Russell Lee-Goldman will practice his LSA talk 'As -- two constructions, not single preposition', which is co-authored with Michael Ellsworth (ICSI).
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