Semantics Tea
Campbell Hall 2122Departmental Celebration of Biggs Chair
4 pm reception, 5 pm talk by Bruce Hayes on "Studying verbal art in linguistics: Meter and mimetic words in Dr. Seuss", California NanoSystems Institute
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallColloquium: Masaya Yoshida
Haines Hall A25Judith Kroll to speak at the Cognitive Forum
Judith Kroll will be giving a talk 3:30-5PM this Friday, November 1 at UCLA, at the weekly Cognitive Forum in Life Sciences Room 5826. She is a renown expert on bilingualism in language acquisition and language processing among other topics. She recently moved to UC Irvine from UC Riverside. Abstract: In the last two decades...
Syntax Seminar – Ed Keenan
Meet in Haines A28 Recursive Morphology in Malagasy Reciprocals Ed Keenan Baholy Ralalaoherivony We show that verbal affix reciprocals in Malagasy have several classically lexical properties: allomorphs, voice conditioning, semantic drift, several non-compositional forms. But we also show that two (maybe three) types of syntactically derived predicates also host reciprocal morphology (and meaning). So the...