Conferences & Presentations

Language Diversity, Linguistic Theory and Cultural Identity in South Asia

Jim Wood and Catarina Soares present their work on Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese

Jim Wood and Catarina Soares their paper “Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations” in Palermo, Italy, on May 26th.

Veneeta Dayal to deliver Annual Henry and Teresa Biggs lecture at Washington University

Veneeta Dayal will deliver the Annual Henry and Teresa Biggs lecture at Washington University, St. Louis, MO on April 1, 2022. She will be speaking on “Genericity and (In)definiteness: A Cross-linguistic Perspective”. In this talk, Dayal acknowledges that understandng of genericity and (in)definiteness are largely shaped by how these concpets are understood from an English language perspective, being the language in which these concepts were first studied.

Milena Šereikaitė gave a talk at Georgetown Speaker Series.

In this talk, Milena examines properties of complex event nominalizations (CENs) and passives in Lithuanian, and what they can tell us about Case Theory and the typology of Voice more broadly. Since the seminal work of Grimshaw (1990), CENs, just like passives, have been claimed to demote an external argument. She provides novel evidence from Lithuanian showing that CENs do not include passivization. Both CENs and passives have a thematic VoiceP that introduces an external argument theta-role.

Michael Wilson, Jackson Petty and Bob Frank present at Jabberwocky Words in Linguistics

Veneeta Dayal to give Henry and Theresa Biggs lecture at Washington University

Veneeta Dayal will give the annual Henry and Theresa Biggs lecture on April 1, 2022 at Washington University, St. Louis MI. The talk will be on ‘Genericity and (in)definiteness: A cross-linguistic perspective’.

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