Cornell Linguistics, Schedule of Invited Speakers, Fall 2001
Thursday 10/11 Rachel Hastings, Cornell, "Evidence for the Genetic Unity of Southern Khoesan" and
Jiahong Yuan, Cornell, "Synchronic Diversity as Evidence of Historical Change: Reconstruction
of the Affricate Initials in Early Mandarin"
Monday 10/15Chilin Shih, Lucent Technologies, "Stem-ML: An Articulatory-Based Prosodic Model"
Monday 10/22Claire Kramsch, Berkeley Language Resource Center, "The Predicament of Culture in Language Study"
Thursday 10/25 Chris Collins, Cornell, "Quotative Inversion Revisited"
Thursday 11/1 Jacqueline Toribio, Penn State, "English-Spanish Code Switching Among U.S. Latinos"
Thursday 11/8 Howard Lasnik, "How Can You Repair an Island by Destroying It?"
Friday 11/9 Howard Lasnik, "Verb-Particle Constructions, Clause-Mate Conditions, and the EPP"
Thursday 11/15 Young-Mee Cho, Rutgers, "A Historical Perspective on Nonderived Environment Blocking: The Case of Korean Palatalization"
Thursday 11/29 Andrew Garrett, Berkeley, "The Historical Syntax Problem"
Friday 11/30 Andrew Garrett, Berkeley, "How Infixes Evolve: A Case Study from California"
