Category: Talks

S-Circle is pleased to host Manfred Krifka, director of ZAS in Berlin, for a research presentation at its next meeting: Friday February 21st in the Linguistics Common Room in Stevenson College. Manfred’s title is Focus in Polarity Questions, and the abstract is available here. Information about upcoming events in S-Circle is always available here.

On Friday February 14th at 3:30 in the Linguistics Common Room there will be a special meeting of S-Circle. The meeting will feature a presentation by a group of researchers from the Berkeley Linguistics Department who are developing a large syntactically-annotated corpus of the Karuk language. This is the first Treebank-style corpus developed for any Native American language and the presentation will discuss the motivation, goals, analytic decisions, implementation, and challenges of the project. A full abstract is available here and the S-Circle schedule for the rest of the quarter is available here.

The UCSC Department of Philosophy will host two talks in their Assistant Professor candidate series this week, both of which engage issues in contemporary cognitive science. Regina Rini works in moral philosophy and the philosophy of cognitive science. Her talk (What is the ‘neuro’ in neuroethics?) will take place on Tuesday February 11th in Humanities Two, Room 259. In the same room on Thursday February 13th Nicoletta Orlandi will speak on Seeing without Inference. Orlandi works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of language.

Since there is no colloquium in the coming week, there will be a meeting of S-Circle. Adrian Brasoveanu will present on Sentence-internal ‘same’ and its quantificational licensors: A new window into the processing of inverse scope (joint work with Jakub Dotlačil. There’s an abstract here. The meeting will take place on Friday February 7 at 3:30 p.m. in the Linguistics Common Room. For more information on upcoming S-Circle presentations, have a look here.

The third colloquium of the Winter Quarter will take place on Friday January 31st—at 4pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. This week’s speaker is Kathryn Pruitt from from Arizona State University. Kathryn’s title is Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism and the abstract for the talk is available here.

Annie Gagliardi of Harvard University will be our next colloquium speaker. Annie’s title is Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q’anjob’al relative clauses. The abstract is available here. The talk will be on Friday January 24th at 4pm in Humanities Two, Room 259.