Linguistics Colloquy Series

Fall 2003

September 22
Osama Abdel-Ghafer, Department of Linguistics
Functional categories and Checking Theory

October 6
No colloquy

October 20
Yuwen Lai, Department of Linguistics
Perturbation of aspiration onTaiwanese tones

November 3
Sara Rosen, Department of Linguistics
Animacy agreement

November 17
Bob Rankin, Department of Linguistics
Romance dialectological counter-evidence for Ohala's acoustically motivated sound changes

December 8
Anita Herzfeld, Department of Latin American Studies
Guaraní, English and Spanish in Paraguay: an unequal encounter