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The Department of Linguistics**Please note! Since there is no colloquium, this Friday’s SynSem seminar will exceptionally meet from 11-1 in the conference room. ** Hilda Koopman will be presenting a (pre)practice talk for…
Read MoreThe annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will take place this weekend in Boston. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be presenting two talks there. Jessica Rett, Nina Hyams…
Read MoreOur founding chair, Robert Stockwell, passed away October 28, 2012, following a long illness. Bob was born June 12, 1925, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was educated at the University…
Read MoreMartin Walkow will be presenting in Syntax and Semantics Seminar this week. His talk is entitled: Variation and Repair in Person-based restrictions on Cliticization. All welcome! Speaker: Martin Walkow Date/Time: Friday, November…
Read MoreThe LSA Executive Committee voted to award the 2013 Best Paper in Language Award (for Volume 88, published in 2012) to Bruce Hayes, Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins) and Anne Shisko…
Read MoreThe 5th California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 5) will be held at UCSD on October 27 – 28, 2012. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be well-represented: Natasha Korotkova:…
Read MoreHilda Koopman was recently invited to the USC Undergraduate Linguistics Conference on October 12, where she introduced the audience to the the Syntactic Structure of the World’s Languages (SSWL and…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be speaking at MIT this Friday, October 26, as part of their colloquium series. Her talk is entitled: Prosodic Priming in Relative Clause Attachment. An abstract follows: In a…
Read MoreA number of graduate students and faculty will be giving practice talks for CUSP 5 which takes places next weekend at UCSD. Speaker: Various Date/Time: Friday, October 19, 1-4pm Location:…
Read MoreRobert Daland’s paper, “Variation in the input: a case study of manner class frequencies,” has appeared in the October Issue of Journal of Child Language. Congratulations Robert! In addition, Robert writes,…
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