1999 Colloquia

5 February
Penelope Eckert, Stanford University
The Social Geography of Variation: Connection the Local and the Global (abstract)

26 February
Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University
Phonological Grammar as Perception of Likelyhood (abstract)

2 April
Robert Ladd, University of Edinburgh (webpage)
Segmental Anchoring of Tonal Targets: Some Consequences (abstract)

14 April
William Croft, University of Manchester (webpage)
An evolutionary framework for understanding language (change) (abstract)

16 April
Anders Holmberg, University of Tromsö (webpage)
Stylistic Fronting: How any category can become an expletive (abstract)

23 April
Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania (webpage)
Discourse Linearization, an Effect of Modernity? (abstract)

7 May
Carson Schütze, University of California, Los Angeles (webpage)
Defaults: The Last Resort for Satisfying Formal Requirements (abstract)

28 May
Arman Maghbouleh, Stanford University
Convex Linguistic Processing (abstract)

29 October
Penelope Eckert, Stanford University
The Social Geography of Variation: connecting the local and the global (abstract)

12 November
Donca Steriade, University of California, Los Angeles (webpage)
Syllable boundaries and phonotactic conditions (abstract)

3 December
Michael Dukes, Stanford University and University of Canterbury
Verb-initial syntax and notions of subjecthood in HPSG -- the case of Polynesian (abstract)