Week of April 25 The Department of Linguistics Fifteenth Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture Caroline Heycock (Professor of Syntax, The University of Edinburgh) "The Unbearable Lightness of be: Some of the strange and illuminating things that happen when we use nouns as predicates" Monday, April 25 | 3:00 pm | See your email for Zoom link (or request here) Abstract: Some... Read more about Week of April 25
Week of April 11 Language Universals Workshop Yoon Kim (MIT) Title: "Corpus-driven discovery of linguistic structures with neural networks" Abstract: : Natural language has inherent structure. Words compose with one another to form... Read more about Week of April 11
Week of April 4 Linguistics Circle Workshop (Virtual meeting) Asia Pietraszko (University of Rochester) Title: "Syntactic structure building: lessons from periphrasis" Abstract: Traditional approaches to verbal periphrasis (compound tenses) treat auxiliary verbs (be/have) as... Read more about Week of April 4
Language Universals Workshop
Linguistics Circle Workshop (Virtual meeting)