Linguistics Colloquium Series
Department of English, California State University, Chico

Series organizer:   Ela Thurgood (ethurgood@csuchico.edu)

Spring 2008

February 15 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

The uniqueness marker in Mandan abstract
Sara Trechter
English, CSU Chico

 

Fall 2006

October 27 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

The formation of the Chinese locative "collostruction" abstract
Chaofen Sun
Center of East Asian Studies, Stanford University

Spring 2006

February 24 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

Phonological Cues Predict Gender of Unfamiliar Names abstract
Saundra Wright
English, CSU Chico

 

April 20 (Thursday, not Friday), 4pm (Ayres 120) (Anthropology Forum)

The End of the Sentence in Siouan? abstract
Sara Trechter
English, CSU Chico

Fall 2005

A special guest

Acquisition of English fricatives by Japanese native speakers
Katsura Aoyama, Department of Communication Disorders, Texas Tech University

Spring 2005

January 28 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

Name Popularity and Feminization Trends abstract
Saundra K. Wright, CSU-Chico

 

April 15 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

Discovering Burundi's Cultural History Through Language abstract
Ellen Eggers, CSU-Chico

 

April 29 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

From Proto-Chamic to Tsat: Insights from Zheng 1997 and from Summer 2004 fieldwork abstract
Graham Thurgood, CSU-Chico

 

Fall 2004

September 17 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)

Pronunciation and Phonology: A Survey of Gendered Typology abstract
Sara Trechter, CSU-Chico

 

Spring 2004

January 30 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 206)

Who is Yo' English Teacher? abstract
Tracy Butts, CSU-Chico

 

March 26 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 206)

The use of phonation types in Javanese abstract
Ela Thurgood, CSU-Chico

 

A special guest

Sun Hongkai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Anong, the grammar of an endangered language.


Fall 2003

October 17, 3pm (PAC 206)

"First I unbuild it, ok?": Innovations in Un- Prefixation abstract
Saundra K. Wright, CSU-Chico

 

November 14, 3pm (PAC 206)

Language Contact, Structural Shift and Structural Borrowability:Evidence from Oroqen, Qiang and Tsat abstract
Frank Li, CSU-Chico

 

December 12, 3pm (PAC 206)

The Socialization of Taste abstract
Margaret A. DuFon, CSU-Chico

Spring 2003

January 24, 3pm (PAC 206)

Thai speakers of English in different language communities: A phonological comparison of word-initial stops abstract
Kate Wray, MA student, California State University, Chico

 

February 21, 3pm (PAC 206)

The sonority hierarchy and the typology of geminate consonants abstract
Katsura Aoyama, Department of Communication Disorders, Texas Tech University

 

March 5 (Wednesday, not Friday!!!), 4pm (Ayres Hall 120)

Ditransitive constructions in the world's languages: alignment types, alignment splits, and inverse patterns abstract
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Fall 2002

September 6, 3pm (PAC 206)

LANGUAGE DEATH AND NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES: THE CASE OF SAUK ALGONQUIAN abstract
Michael Reinschmidt, Department of Anthropology, CSU-Chico

 

October 11, 3pm (PAC 206)

Phonetic realizations of geminate affricates: A study of production abstract
Ela Thurgood, Department of English, CSU-Chicoo

 

November 15, 3pm (PAC 206)

The Tall and the Short of It: An Analysis of Children’s Ability to Acquire Gradable Adjectives abstract
Saundra Wright, Department of English, CSU-Chico

 

Spring 2002

January 22, 3pm  (Taylor 210)
Transitivity and Change of State Verbs abstract
Saundra Wright
Department of English, CSU-Chico

February 8, 3pm (PAC 206)
TheValue of 'Pi' abstract       
Sara Trechter
Department of English, CSU-Chico

March 8, 3pm (PAC 206)
A Cross-Linguistic Examination of Causative, Intensive, and Reciprocal abstract      
Frank Li
Department of English, CSU-Chico

April 5, 3pm (PAC 206)
The Influence of Chinese on Tsat, an Austronesian Language of Hainan abstract     
Graham Thurgood and Frank Li
Department of English, CSU-Chico