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Spring Semester 2007, Linguistics Talks and other events

• Thurs, Jan 25: Angelika Kratzer, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
  Exhuastivity Everywhere
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• Fri, Jan 26: Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe Univ.
  12:20 PM, Room 106 Morrill
  Topic-Prominency in the Japanese Language
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• Thurs, Feb 15: Abby Cohn, Cornell
  The State of Phonology and Laboratory Phonology
  
  
• Thurs, Mar 1: James Matisoff, UC Berkeley (co-sponsored with Southeast Asia Program)
  Morphological elaboration and syntactic parallelism in Lahu religious poetry
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• Sat & Sun, Mar 10 & 11: Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
  106 Morrill Hall
  
  
• Tue, Mar 27: Kobayashi Yoshinori, Nam P'ung-hyon and John Whitman
  A symposium: Hanmun~kugyol=kambun~kunten: Pointing, Reading, and Appropriation of Language in Korea and Japan, 9th-14th Centuries
  4:30, 106 Morrill Hall
  Description of the symposium
  
  
• Thurs, Mar 29: Julie Legate, Cornell Univ.
  Morphological and Syntactic Ergativity in Dyirbal
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• Thurs, Apr 5: Charles Yang, U. Pennsylvania
  Tipping Points
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• Thurs, Apr 12: Mark Steedman, U. Edinburgh/IRCS, U. Pennsylvania
  The Surface-Compositional Semantics of Intonation
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• Thurs, Apr 19: Carlos Gussenhoven, Queen Mary, University of London, and Radboud University (co-sponsored with Cognitive Science)
  Why long vowels are raised and short vowels are lowered
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• Thurs, May 3: Craig Melchert, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  The Problem of the Ergative Case in Hittite
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• Sat, May 5: Syntax and Prosody in the Northeast, workshop
  

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