January 18 Part of the Yale Historical Linguistics Series
James N. Stanford, Dartmouth
Variation in less commonly studied languages
January 25
Lynn Frazier, University of Massachusetts
Ellipsis and Acceptable Ungrammaticality
February 1 &mdash Part of the Yale Historical Linguistics Series
Arto Anttila, Stanford
Word Stress in Finnish
February 22
Adam Albright, MIT
Cumulative complexity effects and phonotactic acceptability
March 1
Miriam Butt, Konstanz
From Spatial Expression to Core Case Marker: Indo-Aryan Datives and Ergatives
March 22
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University
Coming of Age in African American English: Descriptive, methodological, and theoretical issues
April 5
Robert Port, Indiana
A language is a social institution not a cognitive system