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, 3:00-4:30
279 Dwinelle Hall
Line Mikkelsen
mikkelsen at berkeley dot edu
Lynn Nichols
nich at berkeley dot edu
fall 2005
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
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27 january
Karen Sullivan will present on "Metaphoric extension
and invited inference in semantic change".
3 february
Richard Rhodes will present an introduction
to Relational Grammar.
10 february
We won't meet so that we can go to
BLS32.
17 february
Russell Lee-Goldman will be presenting on a
"A typology of rhetorical questions".
24 february
No Circle this week; instead, we'll be going to
this talk by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.
3 march
We will start exceptionally at 3:45 and continue
until 5:00. Michael Houser,
Line Mikkelsen,
Ange Strom-Weber, and
Maziar Toosarvandani will present a talk entitled
"Gųre-support in
Danish".
10 march
Alex Bratkievich will present on "The existential/canonical
alternation in Brazilian Portuguese".
17 march
Jenny Lederer will present on "Anaphoric
distribution in the prepositional phrase: Similarities
between Norwegian and English".
24 march
Rebecca Cover will give a talk entitled "Reflections
on inflection: TAMP in Badiaranke".
31 march
No meeting; spring break.
7 april
Ange Strom-Weber will present on a recent analysis
of ditransitives in the literature as well as discuss
scope in dative constructions with heavy NP shift.
14 april
Noah Constant (U. California, Santa Cruz) will give
a talk entitled "On
the disambiguating effect of rise-fall-rise intonation".
Background reading on conventional implicatures
and focus can be found
here and
here respectively.
21 april
Heriberto Avelino will present a talk entitled "Antecedentless binding construction: Yalįlag Zapotec
vs. the world (A phonetician's account of binding)".
28 april
No Circle this week.
5 may
Nicholas Fleisher will present a talk entitled "Russian Dative Subjects, Case and Control". The paper
can be found here.
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