2001 Colloquia

19 January
Qing Zhang, Stanford University
Changing Economy, Changing Markets: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Yuppies (abstract)

26 January
Ida Toivonen, Stanford University (webpage)
Non-projecting words: Evidence from verbal particles in Swedish (abstract)

9 February
Kira Hall, Stanford University
Language Choice and Sexual Identity in New Delhi (abstract)

2 March
Henning Reetz, University of Konstanz and Stanford University (webpage)
All Features Great and Small (abstract)

9 March
Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan (webpage)
Internally and externally motivated language change: assessing the effects of `nature' and `nurture' (abstract)

11 May
Edward Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (webpage)
Syntactic integration difficulty in language comprehension (abstract)

1 June
David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (webpage)
The Syntax of Tense and the Nature of Case (abstract)
Co-sponsored by the semantics and pragmatics workgroup

8 June
Mark Steedman, ICCS Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (webpage)
Intonation, Grammar, and Spoken Language Processing (abstract)

5 October
Hans-Martin Gärtner, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie and Universalienforschung
Optimality Theory and "Unambiguous Encoding" (abstract)

12 October
Jim McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz
Locality, Optionality, and Long Movement in Irish (abstract)

16 November
Mary Bucholtz, Texas A&M University and Stanford University (webpage)
Accent performance and the negotiation of identity in science-fiction role-playing games (abstract)