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, 3:00-4:30 pm

1303 Dwinelle Hall

Christine Sheil
Clara Cohen

fall 2010
spring 2010
fall 2009
spring 2009
fall 2008
spring 2008
fall 2007
spring 2007
fall 2006
spring 2006
fall 2005

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics

PAST MEETINGS:

29 april
Joint meeting with Dan Klein's NLP group

22 april
Scott Grimm (Stanford) on raising

15 april
Oana David (Berkeley) on Romanian object doubling

8 april
Clara Cohen (UC Berkeley) will lead workshop on Latex for Syntacticians

1 april
Jisup Hong (Berkeley)

25 march
Spring break. No meeting this week.

18 march
Cleo Condoravdi (Palo Alto Research Center) on the semantics of imperatives

11 march
Chao-Yue Lai (Berkeley, Computer Science) on Tibetan relative clauses

4 march
Elizabeth Koier (Leiden) on meaning and context in Ancient Greek particles

25 february
David Kamholz (Berkeley) on the cross-linguistic expressions of coreference and disjoint reference in counterfactuals

18 february
Tammy Stark (Berkeley) on relativization in Omagua

11 february
Eric Prendergast (Berkeley) on object doubling in Macedonian

4 february
Clara Cohen (Berkeley) on Hierarchies and the lack thereof in Imbabura Quichua subordinate clauses

28 january
Christine Sheil (Berkeley) on prepositional relatives in Scots Gaelic

21 january
Vera Gribanova (Stanford) On putative sluicing in a wh-in-situ language: the case of Uzbek