1996 Colloquia

19 January
Edward Flemming, Stanford University
Transparency Effects and Locality in Assimilation (abstract)

26 January
Dani Byrd, Haskins Labs
Phonological Influences on Articulatory Timing (abstract)

2 February
Abigail Cohn, Cornell University
Consonant phonation / vowel height interactions in Madurese (abstract)

9 February
John McWhorter, University of California, Berkeley
Re-examining the Birth and Significance of the Plantation Creole (abstract)

23 February
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University
Optimizing lexical choice: expletives and opaque clitics as cases of minimal violation (abstract)

1 March
John Haviland, Reed College
Gesture spaces and mental maps (abstract)

8 March
Stephen Neale, University of California, Berkeley
Chomsky's Minimalist Program: Philosophical Reflections on Logical Form (abstract)

15 March
Charles Lee, Stanford University
The Human Sentence Processor
Memory Structure and Accessibility: Can You Tell the Difference? (abstract)

5 April
Gabriele Diewald, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Stanford University
The German Modals: Relational Core-Meaning and Functional Differentiation (abstract)

19 April
Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine
On the Disputed Origins of Caribbean Spanish (abstract)

26 April
Hye-won Choi, Stanford University
Optimizing Structure in Context: the Case of Scrambling (abstract)

3 May
Paul Kay, University of California, Berkeley
Semantic Universals in Color Terminology (abstract)

10 May
Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University
Similarity and phonotactics (abstract)

17 May
Barbara Stiebels, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and Stanford University
Complex denominal verbs in German (abstract)

24 May
Miriam Butt, Universität Stuttgart
Tracy King, Stanford University
Distribution of objects in Urdu (abstract)

4 October
Dan I. Slobin, University of California, Berkeley
There's more than one way to talk about motion: Consequences of linguistic typology for narrative style (abstract)

11 October
Larry M. Hyman, University of California, Berkeley
y/Ø Alternation and the Phonology-Morphology Interface in Luganda (abstract)

1 November
Akio Kamio, Dokkyo University and University of Colorado, Boulder
Evidentiality and some discourse characteristics in Japanese (abstract)

8 November
Salvador Pons Borderí, University of Valencia and Stanford University
Measuring a prototype: The case of Spanish connectives (abstract)

15 November
Veerle van Geenhoven, The Max Planck Institute, Njimegen
West Greenlandic Incorporated Nouns are Predicative Indefinites (abstract)

22 November
Scott Schwenter, Stanford University
Adversativity, Argumentation, and Refutation (abstract)