about

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.

when

Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30 pm

where

14 Haviland Hall

coordinator

Amy Campbell
Michael Houser
Maziar Toosarvandani

previous semesters

fall 2008
spring 2008
fall 2007
spring 2007
fall 2006
spring 2006
fall 2005

events

Every week:
Syntax Group

 

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics



PAST MEETINGS:

12 may
CUSP Practice Talks: Rebecca Cover will present on "The modality of aspect in Badiaranke", and Maziar Toosarvandani will present on "Scalar additives and their interaction with focus". Important note: We will be meeting in 1229 Dwinelle.

5 may
Jed Guevara, Milla Nizar, and Line Mikkelsen will present the results of their ongoing corpus study on the use of coordinated pronouns (the project title is "You and me or just us?").

28 april
John MacFarlane (Department of Philosophy) will speak on "Ifs and oughts". Important note: We will again be meeting exceptionally in 1229 Dwinelle this week.

21 april
Russell Lee-Goldman will talk to us on "Reviewing motivations for constructions".

14 april
Iksoo Kwon will talk on "The Korean evidential marker te- revisited: Its semantic constraints and distancing effects in Mental Spaces Theory". Important note: We will be meeting exceptionally for this week only in 1229 Dwinelle.

7 april
Line Mikkelsen will present her current work on "On what comes first in a verb-second language".

31 march
Jess Cleary-Kemp will present her ongoing work on Saliba.

24 march
We won't be meeting because of Spring Break.

17 march
Clara Cohen will present her work on Russian participles.

10 march
Vera Gribanova (University of California, Santa Cruz) will present on "Ellipsis and verbal syntax in Russian".

3 march
Raul Aranovich (University of California, Davis), Title TBA

24 february
Robin Melnick (San Jose State University), Tom Wasow (Stanford University), and Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) will present a talk entitled "Numbers in the grammar? Evidence from experiments with English relativizer and complementizer optionality". Important note: For this week only, we will be meeting 2:30-4 pm in 1229 Dwinelle Hall.

17 february
Lev Michael will present on "Reality status in Nanti and the typological validity of the realis/irrealis contrast".

10 february
Gosia Szajbel-Keck will present a talk entitled "VP internal structure and word order in Polish questions".

3 february
Eve Sweetser will be talking on "(Multi-)frame semantics, metaphor and valence". Important note: For this week only, we will be meeting in 1229 Dwinelle Hall.

27 january
Adrian Brasoveanu (University of California, Santa Cruz) will present on "Sentence-internal readings of same/different as quantifier-internal anaphora".

20 january
Michael Houser will be presenting some of his ongoing dissertation work on do so anaphora in English.