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

210 Dwinelle Hall

Joey Sabbagh
sabbagh at berkeley dot edu

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Nick Fleisher
fleisher at berkeley dot edu

fall 2007
spring 2007
fall 2006
spring 2006
fall 2005

Every week:
Syntax Group

 

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics

2 may
John Keesling will present Alex Alsina and Sam Mchombo's (1990) paper "The syntax of applicatives in Chichewa: Problems for a theta theoretic asymmetry." (Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8:493-506).

25 april
Michael Houser will present a talk on his research.

18 april
No meeting this week.

11 april
Line Mikkelsen will give a talk entitled "Conditions on fronting."

4 april
Helena Cousijn will present a 2007 paper by Cynthis K. Thompson et al., entitled "Neural correlates of verb argument structure processing" (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19:1753-1767).

28 march
No meeting due to spring break.

21 march
Falam Fest

14 march
Yi Zhang will lead a discussion of two articles by Yafei Li: "The thematic hierarchy and causativity" and "V–V compounds in Chinese".

7 march
Hannah Pritchett will lead a discussion of Sandra Chung's 1976 paper, "An object-creating rule in Bahasa Indonesia" (LI 7: 41–87).

29 february
Maziar Toosarvandani will present a practice talk for SALT 18 entitled "Letting negative polarity alone for 'let alone'."

22 february
Joey Sabbagh will lead a discussion of chapter 5 of Mark Baker's 1985 book, Incorporation.

15 february
Organizational meeting.

8 february
No meeting due to BLS 34.

1 february
Line Mikkelsen will present a BLS practice talk entitled "Specification under discussion."

25 january
Raj Singh (MIT) will present a talk entitled "Intermediate accommodation and the strongest meaning hypothesis."