• Friday, October 12, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Andrew Kehler (UCSD)
    Coherence and the (Psycho-)Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation

  • Friday, October 26, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Patrick Pantel (USC Information Sciences Institute)
    Modeling and Explaining Similarity

  • Friday, November 9, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
    Modeling Local Coherence

  • Wednesday, November 14, 5:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    (refreshments at 5:15pm)
    Phillip Wolff (Emory)
    Force Dynamics and the Semantics of Negative Causation
    (cosponsored with SPLaT!)

  • Friday, November 16, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    William Foley (University of Sydney/Stanford)
    Inversion and Paradigm Collapse? in the Lower Sepik Family
    (cosponsored by the Linguistics Colloquium Committee)











  • Friday, January 18, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Danny Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Lauri Karttunen, Tracy Holloway King, Valeria de Paiva, and Annie Zaenen
    (PARC Natural Language Group)
    Computing linguistically-based textual inferences

  • Thursday, February 7, 5:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Brian McElree (NYU)
    Real-time evidence for semantic coercion
    (cosponsored with SPLaT!)

  • Friday, March 14, 2008, All Day, MJH Rm 126
    Semantics Fest




  • Friday, April 18, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Olga Kagan (UCSC)
    Maximizing Assertion: The Case of Verbs of Motion in Russian

  • Friday, April 25, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware)
    Acquiring meaning: From lexical content to pragmatic inference

  • Friday, May 23, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126
    Christopher Potts (UMass, Amherst)
    Pragmatic Enrichment Via Expressive Content