News & Events

Extending the vowel space: New phonetic data from languages of Cameroon

Friday, October 18, 2024
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Matt Faytak, University of Buffalo

Lattimore 201

Don’t wait for a change to happen: Find one!

Friday, September 13, 2024
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto

Lattimore 201

A Hockey-Based Persona: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Canadian English on American-Born Hockey Players

Friday, April 12, 2024
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Andrew Bray, University of Rochester

Lattimore 201

Question word distributivity: Which account works for which phenomenon?

Friday, April 5, 2024
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Mary Moroney, University of Rochester

Lattimore 201

CLS sponsored colloquium (title forthcoming)

Friday, March 29, 2024
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford

Lattimore 201

Investigating Chin Discourse Markers through Collaborative Fieldwork

Friday, March 22, 2024
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

J.C. Wamsley, University of Rochester

Lattimore 201

Modeling progress: causal models and the imperfective paradox

Friday, February 16, 2024
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Prerna Nadathur, Ohio State University

Lattimore 201

What does it seem that hyperraising blocks?

Friday, February 2, 2024
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota

Lattimore 201

RELATE-ing assimilation & dissimilation in syntax

Friday, October 27, 2023
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Sandhya Sundaresan, Stony Brook University

Lattimore 201

Regular and Idiosyncratic Meaning in The Roots of Words

Friday, October 20, 2023
Noon–2 p.m.

John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin

Lattimore 201

Lexical Representation, Lexical Semantics, and Syntax

Friday, October 13, 2023
Noon–2 p.m.

John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin

Lattimore 201

A Lexical Semanticist's Apology

Friday, October 6, 2023
Noon–2 p.m.

John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin

Lattimore 201

Seminar Series: Lexical Aspect, Word Categories, and Argument Realization

Wednesday, October 4, 2023
1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.

John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin

Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library

The trees and the roots: The role of syntacticians in language documentation

Friday, September 29, 2023
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida

Lattimore 201

Language ideology and pidginization in New Guinea

Friday, April 7, 2023
Noon–1:30 p.m.

William Foley, Columbia University

Lattimore 513

And what do you think language is? Language documentation and linguistic biases

Monday, April 3, 2023
10 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of ELDP and ELAR, Berlin

Lattimore 513

Causatives and High Applicatives: 2 Problems, 1.5 Solutions

Friday, March 3, 2023
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Neil Myler, Boston University

Lattimore 513

Derived Entities: Parallels Between Relativization and Nominalization

Friday, February 17, 2023
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Emily Hanink, Indiana University Bloomington

Lattimore 513

Intoxication Effects on Bilingual Speech

Friday, February 10, 2023
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Charles Chang, Boston University

Lattimore 513

TBA

Friday, April 8, 2022
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Laurel Perkins, University of California Los Angeles

TBA

“Isn’t she your mother?”: Learning the language of kinship in Datooga

Friday, April 1, 2022
9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.

Alice Mitchell, University of Cologne

Via Zoom (Registration required)

Lubukusu object marking: at the interface of pragmatics and syntax

Friday, March 18, 2022
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Michael Diercks, Pomona College

Lattimore 513

Morphological markedness and semantic interpretation in the nominal domain

Friday, March 4, 2022
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Mary Moroney, University of Rochester

Lattimore 513

Change of state: from the BECOME operator to the mereotopology of events

Tuesday, February 22, 2022
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Louis McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Lattimore 513

TBA

Friday, December 3, 2021
Noon

Ailis Cournane, New York University

Lattimore 513

Learning speaker- and addressee-centered demonstratives in Ticuna

Friday, November 19, 2021
Noon

Amalia Skilton, Cornell University

Lattimore 513

Data management for linguists: maintaining organization, collaborations, and accessibility for yourself and the community

Friday, October 15, 2021
Noon

Kate Lindsey, Boston University

Lattimore 513

Friday, April 23, 2021
Noon

Felix Ameka, Leiden University

Via Zoom (registration required)

Friday, April 2, 2021

Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh

Via Zoom (registration required)

How to Become a Direct/Inverse Language

Friday, February 12, 2021
Noon

Will Oxford, University of Manitoba

Via Zoom (registration required)

Relating universal quantifiers and information structure in Besemah

Friday, February 5, 2021
2 p.m.

Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Zoom (email linguistics@rochester.edu for link)

Natural language without semiosis

Friday, October 30, 2020
Noon

Omer Preminger, University of Maryland

Zoom (email linguistics@rochester.edu for link)

The lexical and compositional semantics of distributivity

Friday, October 16, 2020
Noon

Lelia Glass, Georgia Tech

Zoom (email linguistics@rochester.edu for link)

TDB

Friday, May 1, 2020
3 p.m.

Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Lattimore 513

Development and Maintenance of Black ASL at the Intersection of Race, Language, and Disability

Friday, February 28, 2020
3 p.m.

Joseph Hill, assistant professor, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), Rochester Institute of Technology

Dewey 2-110E

TBD

Friday, February 7, 2020
3 p.m.

John Bailyn, Stonybrook University

Lattimore 513

Morphological Doubling in Bantu Verb Suffixes

Friday, January 24, 2020
3 p.m.

Brent Henderson, University of Florida

Lattimore 513

The pragmatics of (non-)exhaustivity in questions

Friday, December 13, 2019
2 p.m.

Morgan Moyer, Rutgers University

Lattimore 513

Talking with Spirits: Eco-Intimacy and Spirit Exorcism in the Nigerian Sahel

Friday, December 6, 2019
2 p.m.–5 p.m.

Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology

Lattimore 513

Subject inversion in (Proto-)Bantu relative clauses

Friday, October 18, 2019
3 p.m.–5 p.m.

Fatima Hamlaoui, University of Toronto

Lattimore 513

A Theory of Kinds for Generics?

Friday, April 12, 2019
2 p.m.–5 p.m.

Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University

Dewey 2-110E

Exploring crosslinguistic variation in the expression of grammatical categories: an Amazonian case study

Friday, February 22, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Adam Singerman, University of Chicago

Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library

The meaning of an exception

Monday, February 18, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon

Dustin Chacón, University of Minnesota

Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library

A Syntactic Side of Word Formation

Friday, February 15, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Asia Pietraszko, University of Connecticut

TBA

From syntax to postsyntax and back again

Monday, February 11, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon

Martina Martinovic, University of Florida

Humanities Center Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library

Negation in Finno-Ugric verb clusters. Evidence for post-syntactic operations

Monday, February 4, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon

Martin Salzmann, University of Leipzig

Humanities Center Conference Room D. Rush Rhees Library

Sociolinguistic approaches to the study of multilingualism and language shift

Friday, February 1, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Maya Abtahian

Humanities Center Conference Room D

The exotic syntax of spoken discourse: Challenges from spontaneous narration in Wan (Mande)

Monday, January 28, 2019
10:30 a.m.–Noon

Tatiana Nikitina

Humanities Center Conference Room D

Capturing Linguistic Diversity: Grammatical Tone in Gyeli

Friday, January 25, 2019
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Nadine Grimm

Dewey 2-110E

Linguistics Department Colloquia Series co-sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences

Friday, November 9, 2018
3:30 p.m.

Daniel Siddiqi, Carlton University

513 Lattimore Hall, reception to follow

Legal Interpretation by Big Data

Friday, October 12, 2018
2 p.m.

Larry Solan, Brooklyn Law School

513 Lattimore Hall

Cognitive Science Dinner Talk

Monday, April 16, 2018
6:15 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Benjamin Van Durme, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

366 Meliora Hall

Cognitive Science Dinner Talk

Thursday, March 22, 2018
6:15 p.m.–9 p.m.

Aaron White, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester

366 Meliora Hall

Syntactic Projection and Distribution

Friday, February 16, 2018
9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.

Jim Blevins, Cambridge University

Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D

The Proper Approach to Definite Articles

Monday, February 12, 2018
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Dr. Ora Matushansky, SFL (CNRS/Université Paris-8)/UiL OTS/Utrecht University

Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D

Retrieving antecedents with the grammar: c-command, D-type pronouns and f-features

Friday, February 9, 2018
9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.

Keir Moulton, Simon Fraser University

Rush Rhees Library, Humanitites Conference Room D

Enriched Meanings

Thursday, February 1, 2018
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Professor Ash Asudeh, Oxford University & Carleton University

Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D

On the interaction between syntax and postsyntax in Uzbek (non-)verbal predicate formation

Monday, January 29, 2018
11 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Vera Gribanova, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University

Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D

Regionalizing Race: Exploring Sound Change and Racial Identity

Thursday, January 25, 2018
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Sharese King, Stanford University

Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Conference Room D

Seenku argument-head tone sandhi: Morphosyntax, phonology, or both? 

Friday, November 17, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.

Laura McPherson, Dartmouth College

513 Lattimore

Prosodic Recursion and Syntactic Cyclicity inside the Word

Friday, November 3, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.

Peter Guegkuezian, University of Rochester

513 Lattimore

Return to Richard

Friday, October 27, 2017
3:30 p.m.

Ash Asudeh, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University & Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Oxford University

Lattimore 513

Qualified Bare Nouns in Scopal Contexts in Yorùbá (Oládiípo` Ajíbóyè, University of Lagos)

Friday, September 22, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.

513 Lattimore Hall

Hitting a point and wiping a region: The argument realization of manner verbs

Friday, September 8, 2017
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.

Beth Levin, Stanford University

513 Lattimore Hall

Norma Tourangeau, ASL Program

Tuesday, April 11, 2017
7 p.m.–9 p.m.

Morey 321

4th Symposium on American Indian Languages at RIT

Friday, April 7–Sunday, April 9, 2017

Rochester Institute of Technology

Jalon Begay, Navajo Language Program & Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico

Wednesday, April 5, 2017
9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Lattimore 513

Prof. Nadine Grimm, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester

Friday, March 31–Saturday, April 1, 2017

NYASA (NEW YORK AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION)

Prof Abby Cohn, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University

Friday, December 9, 2016
2 p.m.–4 p.m.

513 Lattimore Hall

Zhong Chen, Rochester Institute of Technology

Friday, December 2, 2016
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.

Lattimore 513, River Campus, University of Rochester

Dr D. Robert Ladd, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh

Thursday, October 6, 2016
11 a.m.–Noon

513 Lattimore Hall

Dr Andries Coetzee, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan

Friday, September 30, 2016
3 p.m.–5 p.m.

513 Lattimore Hall

Dr Gennaro Chierchia, Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University

Wednesday, September 16, 2015
4:03 p.m.–6 p.m.

321 Morey Hall, River Campus