yale linguistics

Monday Colloquia Schedule - Fall 2009

Mondays, 4pm, Rosenfeld Hall, corner of Grove and Temple Streets.
(Preceded by coffee hour: 3:15pm, Rm201, 370 Temple St.)

September 28
John Hale, Cornell
What a rational parser would do

October 5
Richard Kayne, NYU
Why is Syntax Antisymmetric?

October 12 &mdash Part of the Yale Historical Linguistics Series
Tony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Independence in Language Change

October 26
Edward Flemming, MIT
The Grammar of Coarticulation

November 9
Pauline Jacobson, Brown
The Short Answer: Implications for Direct Compositionality

November 16
Caroline Heycock, Edinburgh
Assessing variation in Germanic: Are the Faroes really between Iceland and Denmark?

November 30 &mdash Part of the Yale Historical Linguistics Series
Patience Epps, Edinburgh
TBA

Linguistics at Yale University