September 28
John Hale, Cornell
What a rational parser would do
October 5
Richard Kayne, NYU
Why is Syntax Antisymmetric?
October 12 &mdash Part of the Yale Historical Linguistics Series
Tony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Independence in Language Change
October 26
Edward Flemming, MIT
The Grammar of Coarticulation
November 9
Pauline Jacobson, Brown
The Short Answer: Implications for Direct Compositionality
November 16
Caroline Heycock, Edinburgh
Assessing variation in Germanic: Are the Faroes really between Iceland and Denmark?
November 30 Part of the Yale Historical Linguistics Series
Patience Epps, University of Texas
Valence change and the origins of modals: Evidence from Hup (Amazonia)
December 7
Erich Round, Yale University
Losing your modularity: the entwining of phonology and morphology in Kayardild