Past Talks and Proseminars
Spring 2021
Thursday, March 25
3:30-5:00pm
(UT Austin)
Complement clauses in Teotitl¨¢n del Valle Zapotec: why are they unique and how might typology support our understanding of them even without defining them?
Monday, March 29
3:30-5:00pm
(University of Louisville)
Abstract: The complex exponence relations of tonal inflection in San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino verbs
Thursday, April 1
12:40-2:00pm
(University of Arizona)
naat ?a maqlaqsyalank hemkank¡¯la: Sustaining tribal sovereignty through community-based language research
Friday, April 9
11:00am-12:20pm
Jalon Begay (University of New Mexico)
Reconceptualizing Navajo word formation and holoxemic relations
Friday, April 21
4:00-5:30pm (MT)
(University of Michigan)
Cognition and Sociolinguistic Knowledge of African American English
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Fall 2020
Wednesday, December 9
4:00-5:30pm
Miriam Aguilar (Naso; Universidad de Panam¨¢)
Natalia Berm¨²dez (University of Chicago)
Centering Indigenous Methodologies in Linguistic Fieldwork: Creating the Naso Cultural Encyclopedia
Spring 2020
Wednesday, January 22
4:00pm, CLRE 302
Valentina Schiattarella, University of Naples & Fullbright Visitor to CU Linguistics
Title: "Reference System in Siwi (Berber, Egypt)"
Wednesday, January 29
4:00pm, MUEN D430/D28
, Ohio State University
Title: "Modeling Syntax Acquisition with Cognitive Constraints"
Friday, January 31
4:00-5:30pm Presentation and roundtable discussion
5:30-6:30pm Social hour with light bites
Roundtable with SoundHound: Insights on Lingusitics Roles in Speech Recognition Technology
*Special off-campus location: SoundHound Boulder (1468 Pearl St, Suite 200)*
Tuesday, February 18
6:00pm, CASE Auditorium
David J. Peterson
Title:
Do you conlang? Linguist David J. Peterson created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for HBO's Game of Thrones, as well as languages for The Witcher, Thor: The Dark World, Doctor Strange, Into the Badlandsand more. Join us as he talks about the linguistic tools he uses when he envisions, develops and evolves new languages.
Note: This event is sponsored by the CU Undergraduate Linguistics Club; it is a ticketed event, but tickets are free. Reserve your free tickets at the Eventbrite link above.
Monday, February 17th
4:00-5:30pm
MUEN D430/D28
, Stanford University
Title: "Modeling Utterance Interpretation in Context"
Wednesday, February 19th
4:00-5:30pm
MUEN D430/D28
, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research / New York University
Title: "Is the association of nouns to gender classes truly arbitrary?"
Wednesday, April 1
4:00-6:30pm
British Studies Room
, Northwestern University
Title: "The Imperfect Futures of Generation Z: Spelling Bees and Childhood in the New Millennium"
Note: This event is co-sponsored by the CU Literacy Practicum, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Anthropology.
Wednesday, October 9
4:00pm
Hale 230
, University of New Mexico
Meagan Vigus, University of New Mexico
Title: "Extending Semantic Annotation Schemes across Languages: Balancing Diversity and Comparability"
Thursday, November 7
5:00pm [with reception to precede the talk at 4pm]
Humanities 150
Undergraduate Distinguished Speaker: , University of Chicago
Title: "The Linguistic Construction of Race and Place in Rochester, New York"
Note: this event is co-sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, English, Communication and Women's Studies.
Wednesday, January 23
4:00pm
Clare Small 209
William J. C'Hair, Chairman of the Northern Arapaho Language & Culture Commission of Wyoming
James Sleeper, Language Lead for the Southern Arapaho of Oklahoma
Discussion: "2019: The UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, and the Future of Native American Languages"
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Native American & Indigenous Studies (CNAIS)
Monday, February 4
4:30pm
Clare Small 209
, Colorado State University
"Language Diversity: Space, Time, and Influences on Design"
Wednesday, February 6
4:30pm
Clare Small 209
Shahar Shirtz
"(Re-)expanding Typology: Intra-linguistic Variation, Discourse"
Monday, February 11
4:30pm
Clare Small 209
Danielle Barth
"Kinship: Morphological Change, Kintax, and a Typology of Human Reference"
Friday, February 15
4:00pm
Hellems 247
Vsevolad Kapatsinski, University of Oregon
"Explaining morphological change: Productivity, competition, and the contents of the grammar"
Wednesday, February 20
4:00-5:30pm
Clare Small 209
, Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris
"What Are Constructions and What Can They Do?"
Wednesday, April 17
4:00-5:30pm
Clare Small 209
, University of Bayreuth
"Integrating Stability into Historical Linguistics: Arabic and its Paradoxes"
Wednesday, December 5
4:00-5:30
University of Alberta
Monday, October 1
4:00-5:30
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado, Boulder
Monday, October 15
4:00-5:30
Claire Bonial
Computational and Information Sciences Directorate
Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Event semantics in text constructions, vision, and human-robot dialogue
Monday, November 5
4:00-5:30
Lisa Rutta (with Angie Howard, Maisy Wieman, and Melissa Little)
Ops and Technical Project Management, SoundHound
Linguistic Roles in Speech Recognition Technology: Optimizing for Success!
Wednesday, December 5
4:00-5:30
Antti Arppe
University of Alberta
Monday, February 5
4:00-5:30
Paris Diderot University
Monday, March 12
4:00-5:30
Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
A mental space analysis of tense and modality: A progress report
Monday, April 16
4:00-5:30
Special location: Hellems 199
University of Sussex
Separated by a Common Language?: The Complicated Relationship between American and British English
[Co-sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics, Communication, and English]
Wednesday, April 18
4:00-5:30
University of New Mexico and University of Rochester
Breaking with Tradition, (Re)assessing Navajo Word-Formation: A Case Study
Friday, April 20
3:00-4:30
Special location: Hellems 137
Senior Researcher, Comit¨¦ National de la Recherche Scientifique
Monday, April 30
3:00-4:30
Special location: Hellems 285
Post-Doctoral Scholar, CLEAR, CU-Boulder
Monday, December 10
4:00-5:30
Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics
University at Buffalo
Title: Representational gesture when it¡¯s not expected: Can referent characteristics predict gesture?
Wednesday, November 15
4:00-5:30
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Merced
Title: The Role of Grammar in Computer-aided Metaphor Research
Tuesday, October 31
3:30-5:00 in MUEN D430 [note special location]
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Title: From Naive Physics to Connotation: Modeling Commonsense in Frame Semantics
A video of the talk is available .
Monday, October 30
4:00-5:30
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Co-director,
Macquarie University
Title: Prosodic Effects on the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes
Monday, September 18
4:00-5:30 (with reception following the talk)
British Studies Room [note special location]
LingCircle Capstone Speaker
Seth Merrin Professor of
Co-director,
Tufts University
Title: Relational Morphology in the Mental Lexicon
Note: Prof. Jackendoff's visit is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive Science. He will give a talk on Friday, September 15.
Wednesday, February 22
Profs. Michaelis and Scarborough
Proseminar: Surviving the Synthesis
Monday, February 27
Associate Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: The Strategic Incorporation of Linguistic Analysis into Modern NLP
Wednesday, March 22
Profs. Narasimhan and Hulden
Proseminar: Planning a Thesis / Writing a Prospectus
Monday, April 3
Melvatha Chee
University of New Mexico
Title: Child acquisition of the Navajo verb construction
Monday, April 10
4:00-5:30 in Hellems 199
TJX/Feldberg Chair of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Title: The Semantics of Doing and Seeing in Simulated Worlds
Click here for a PDF of the slides from the talk
for a video of the talk
for a video of the Q&A session
Wednesday, April 12
Prof. Hall
Proseminar: Publishing in Journals
Wednesday, April 19
Proseminar: Developing Courses and Syllabi
Thursday, April 27
4:00-5:30 in Hellems 181
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Carleton University
Title: Templates, paradigms, and morphological typology: Perspectives from Dene languages
Monday, May 1
Meichun Liu („¢ÃÀ¾ý)
Professor and Head
Department of Linguistics and Translation
City University of Hong Kong
Title: The Chinese Mind: What does Chinese Tell us about Grammar?
Monday, November 7, 4:00pm
Hellems 229
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida
Wednesday, February 10, 4:30
Hellems 285
Graduate Workshop: Converging on Inclusive Excellence
Wednesday, March 2, 3:00-5:15
Inclusive Excellence Discussion followed by Proseminar Panel Session
- Converging on Inclusive Excellence II (3:00-4:00)
- Preparing for the job market: Rebecca Scarborough (4:00-4:15)
- Collaboration: Zygmunt Frajzyngier (4:15-4:30)
- Web presence: Laura Michaelis and Jonnia Torres (4:30-4:45)
- Goal setting: Andy Cowell, Martha Palmer (4:45-5:00)
- General discussion: 5:00-5:15
Friday, September 25, 12:00
Dean of Arts and Science, Bentley University
Grammar and the Culturally Articulated Unconscious
The above lecture is jointly sponsored by Linguistics and the Institute of Cognitive Science.
Monday, October 26, 4:00
University of New Mexico
Force-dynamic Image Schemas and their Analysis
Monday, December 7, 4:00
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
University of Colorado, Boulder
Yer in, yer out: Exaptation of an Epenthesis Rule into Morphology
Monday, Feb 2, 4:00
CLRE 209
Astrid De Wit
Â鶹ÊÓƵ and University of Antwerp
The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages
Monday, Feb 9, 3-4:30
MUEN D430
Chung Hye-Han
Simon Fraser University
Synchronizing Structure and Meaning Using Tree Adjoining Grammar
Wednesday, February 18, 4:00
CLRE 209
Bhuvana Narasimhan
Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Proseminar: Interdisciplinary Research
Wednesday, March 4, 4:00
Hellems 285 (the LING conference room)
Nick Williams
Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Proseminar: Workshop on Constructing a Web Presence (you will set up a website during this event)
Note: This is a joint Proseminar and Graduate Teacher Program event.
Wednesday, March 11, 4:00
CLRE 209
Rebecca Scarborough
Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Proseminar: Managing Teaching, Coursework and Research
Friday, Mar 13, 12:00
Institute of Cognitive Science Colloquium Series
MUEN D428/430
Adele Goldberg
Princeton University
Explain me this: how we Learn what not to Say
Note: This talk is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive Science.
Monday, April 6, 4:00
CLRE 209
Michael Barlow
University of Auckland
Idiolects and Exemplars
Wednesday, April 8, 4:00
CLRE 209
Martha Palmer,
Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Proseminar: Wowing both your Thesis Proposal Committee and a Conference Audience
Monday, Sep 8, 4:00
CLRE 209
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
University of Colorado
Monday, Sep 15, 4:00
CLRE 209
Kris Stenzel
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/University of Colorado
Monday, Sep 22, 4:00
HLMS 267
Gary Miller
University of Florida/University of Colorado
Monday, Oct 13, 4:00
HLMS 267
Irina Vagner
University of Colorado
Friday, Oct 24, 4:00
Eaton Humanity 125
Paul Kiparsky
Stanford University
Monday, Nov 3, 4:00
HLMS 267
Andy Cowell
University of Colorado
Monday, Nov 10, 4:00
HLMS 267
Suzanne Kemmer
Rice University
Monday, Nov 17, 4:00
HLMS 267
Kris Stenzel
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/University of Colorado
Monday, September 23
Independent Lexicographer and CU Department of Linguistics
Thursday, October 10, 11-12:15
VAC 1B90
Gary Miller
University of Florida
Wednesday, October 23
Recruiting Event: English Language Fellow and English Language Specialist programs, Georgetown University and US Department of State
Margarita McAuliffe
Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State
Monday, November 11
CU Department of Political Science and Center for Asian Studies
The Politics of Gendered Languages: Third-Person Pronouns and Women's Rights
Wednesday, November 13
Career Advising Session
Monday, November 18
Ver¨®nica Mu?oz Ledo
Linguistic doctoral candidate, UC Santa Barbara
Problems of Categorization: The 'Middle Voice' in SLP Huasteco
Monday, Feb 3, 4:30
HLMS 241
Ewan Dunbar
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Sup¨¦rieure/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Computational Approaches to Theoretical Problems in Phonology
Friday, February 7, 4:00
HLMS 241
Philip Roberts
University of Oxford
Theoretical Computational Phonology in Practice
Monday, February 10, 4:00
HLMS 241
Gaja Jarosz
Yale University
Learning Probabilistic Phonology: Integrating Theoretical, Computational, and Developmental Perspectives
Friday, February 14, 4:00
HLMS 241
Kevin Cohen
University of Colorado
Phonology meets Computation meets Fieldwork
Monday, February 17, 4:00
HLMS 241
Mans Hulden
University of Helsinki
Where's the Leak? Formal Verification in Phonology
Friday, February 21, 3:00
HLMS 241
Arturas Ratkus
University of Vilnius, Lithuania
Gothic Modifiers in -ata and Inflectional Variation in the 'Strong' Paradigm
Wednesday, March 5
Proseminar: Grant Writing and Networking
Martha Palmer
Monday, March 10, 4:00
HLMS 241
Georgetown University
Life after a Linguistics Degree: Career Paths and Professional Development
Monday, April 21, 4:00
HLMS 141
David Peterson, MA
Game of Thrones Language Design
The Man I Saw: External Constraints on Relative Clause Construction in Created Languages for the Big and Small Screen
Monday, April 28
HLMS 241
University of Antwerp
Modality and Mood: A Pair Apart