Sunday, October 24, 2010

Upcoming talks

Here is what we have on tap for the next several weeks (Tuesdays at 10:00):

Oct. 26: Grant Goodall on work he has been doing with John Grinstead and Mariana Vega-Mendoza on wh-questions in child Spanish.

Nov. 2: Boyoung Kim will do a practice version of her WECOL talk.

Nov. 9: Kate Davidson on using experimental syntax techniques for getting pragmatic judgments.

Nov. 16: Discussion of "The need for quantitative methods in syntax and semantics research" by Edward Gibson & Evelina Fedorenko.

Nov. 23: open

Nov. 30: Bethany Keffala on resumptive pronouns.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Simone Gieselman on negative islands

We will meet on Monday, Oct. 18, at noon to hear a practice version of Simone's upcoming NELS talk on "Isolation of Independent Processing Factors in Negative Island Contexts".

See you then!  And if you'd like to present a practice talk of your own (or just present results of work in progress), let me know.