Syntax Group is an informal weekly gathering of graduate students and faculty to read and discuss current work in syntax and semantics. All are welcome to attend. 
Thursdays, 5:30 
Line Mikkelsen's house 
Hannah Haynie
h j h at berkeley dot edu
Maziar Toosarvandani
mtoosarvandani at berkeley dot edu
fall 2005
spring 2006
fall 2006
spring 2007
fall 2007
Every week:
Syntax & Semantics Circle
February 8-10
BLS 34
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
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8 may
For our last meeting of the semester, we will be discussing Paul Elbourne's (2008) paper "Ellipsis sites as definite descriptions" (Linguistic Inquiry 39:191-220).
1 may
We are discussing Lynn's recent article in IJAL entitled "Zuni accusative intransitives" (2008, 74:115-40).
24 april
We will not be meeting.
17 april
We will discuss Stephen Anderson's (1971) response to "The case for case" entitled "On the role of deep structure in semantic interpretation" (Foundations of Language 7:387-396).
10 april
We will be reading Chuck Fillmore's classic paper "The case for case" (984 kb). Thanks Russell for the pdf!
3 april
We will be reading Jon Gajewski's paper "Neg-Raising and Polarity".
27 march
We will not be meeting (spring break).
20 march
We will not be meeting.
13 march
We will continue our discussion of metalinguistic negation in Chapter 6 of Horn's book.
6 march
We will be reading Chapter 6.1-6.4 of Larry Horn's "A natural history of negation". A photocopy is available in Maziar's box. We are still meeting at Hannah Haynie's house.
28 february
We will be reading Chapter 4 of Larry Horn's "A natural history of negation", a photocopy of which is in Maziar's box. Again, we will be meeting at Hannah Haynie's house.
21 february
We will be talking about Henry Davis' IJAL article entitled "On the syntax and semantics of negation in Salish" (2005, 71:1-51). We will be meeting exceptionally at Hannah Haynie's house.
14 february
We will discuss Mark Donohue's article "Negative grammatical functions in Skou" (2006, Language 82:383-398).
7 february
Joey Sabbagh will be giving a practice job talk. Pad Thai will be provided.
31 january
We will be reading Matti Miestamo's article "Negation—An overview of typological research" (2007, Language and Linguistics Compass). It will be posted here soon.
24 january
We will be having an organizational meeting at 5:30 to figure out the reading for the semester. The theme we agreed upon at the end of the fall was the syntax and semantics of negation.
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