Events

This seminar has been postponed to November 7, 2025.   Aaron White Department of Linguistics University of Rochester   The Conceptual and Contextual Correlates of Argument Structure: A case study of intentional events and states   This talk explores how intentional events and states are expressed in natural language, focusing on the linguistic realization of […]

Jonathan David Bobaljik Harvard University   The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Composing Clusivity   he Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages have a complex agreement pattern that includes both prefixes (marking subjects) and suffixes (marking transitive objects or intransitive subjects). Intransitive subjects are thus doubly marked, once by the prefix and again by the suffix. Older texts show a previously […]

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up for a spot, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu    Constantina Theofanopoulou Herbert and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor Rockefeller University   Neurobiology of social communication: from speech to dance   Dr. Theofanopoulou’s overall goal is to dissect the neural […]