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.

Fridays, 4–5:30

287 Dwinelle Hall

Joey Sabbagh
sabbagh at berkeley dot edu

For web inquiries, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list:
Nick Fleisher
fleisher at berkeley dot edu

spring 2007
fall 2006
spring 2006
fall 2005

Every week:
Syntax Group

 

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics

PAST MEETINGS:

7 december
LSA practice talks.

30 november
Joshua Marker will lead a discussion of Tom Mylne's paper, "A feature-based system for classifying semantic roles."
Will Chang will discuss his recent work on null complementizers in English.

23 november
No meeting due to Thanksgiving break.

16 november
Michael Houser will present a talk on do so anaphora.

9 november
Alice Gaby and Rebecca Cover will present a talk on inclusory constructions.

2 november
Hannah Haynie will talk about her QP research on null complement anaphora.

26 october
Iksoo Kwon will lead a discussion of Danny Fox's 2002 paper, "Antecedent-contained deletion and the copy theory of movement" (Linguistic Inquiry 33: 63–96).

19 october
NELS practice talks. Maziar Toosarvandani will present a talk entitled "Obligatory movement and sluicing in a wh-in situ language." Nick Fleisher will present a talk entitled "Positive standards of comparison."

12 october
Hannah Pritchett will lead a discussion of chapter 2 of Alan Munn's dissertation, "Topics in the syntax and semantics of coordination."

5 october
Ange Strom-Weber will present a talk on Thomas Grano's thesis, entitled "'Me and her' meets 'he and I': Case, person, and linear ordering in English coordinated pronouns."

28 september
David Kamholz will present Kazenin and Testelets's paper, "Where coordination meets subordination: Converb constructions in Tsakhur (Dagestanian)" (from Haspelmath, ed., Coordinating Constructions, Benjamins, 2004).

21 september
Nick Fleisher will present a talk on his dissertation research.

14 september
Russell Lee-Goldman will present a talk on the "conditional-and" construction.

7 september
Joey Sabbagh will present a talk entitled "Clause structure and coordination in Tagalog."

31 august
Organizational meeting.