First Meeting:

Date: Friday, June 28th, 2002
Time: 2:00pm
Place: English Dept. lounge, on the first floor of the Humanities Classroom Bldg.
Abstracts page ( html )

Second Meeting:

Date: Friday, July 26th, 2002
Time: 2:00pm
Place: English Dept. lounge, on the first floor of the Humanities Classroom Bldg.
Abstracts page ( html )

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Historical Linguistics Research Group (HLRG):

First Meeting:

Topic: Is the Catawba language really dead?
Speaker: Claudia Heinemann-Priest
Date: Friday, 7 December
Time: 7:00pm
Place: 3206 Wilmot Av. Home of Kurt Goblirsch and Katja Froeba.
Directions: take Devine St. away from Five Points. Turn right at Sims (stoplight). Go past Blossom and Wheat St to Wilmot (the third street), following the jog in Sims. Turn left. Go one and one fourth blocks. The house
is on the right side.
Note: Claudia Heinemann-Priest is studying in the M.A. Program in Linguistics at USC and works at the Catawba Project. The topic is her own research on the Catawba Indian language.

Second Meeting:

Topic: The Voicing of Fricatives in the West Germanic Languages. (abstract)
Speaker: Kurt Goblirsch
Date: Saturday, 23 March
Time: 7:00pm
Place: At the home of Cheryl Fitzgerald, 151 Wood Ride Lane, Columbia, 29209
Phone: (803) 783-9273
Directions: From the University, take Devine Street east. It turns into Garners Ferry Road which you take until you turn right on Old Woodlands Drive (Old Woodlands is the stoplight right after Target and Eric's San Jose restaurant- there is a gas station right before the light as well.) Take Old Woodlands until it ends and go left on Hampton Trace for a very short way, then right on Chimney Hill. Stay on Chimney Hill (which winds around a bit) going through Hampton's Grant and into Hampton Crest. Continue on Chimney Hill and take a left on Wood Ride Lane until number 151.
Note: As always, there will be a potluck before the talk.

Third Meeting:

Topic:When the shift hit the fan: competing theories on the origin and spread of the second consonant shift.
Speaker: Craig Callender
Date: Friday, May 17
Time: 7:00pm
Place: At the home of Cheryl Fitzgerald, 151 Wood Ride Lane, Columbia, 29209 (Hampton Crest Subdivision)
Phone: (803) 783-9273
Directions: From the University, take Devine Street until it turns into Garners Ferry. Continue on Garners Ferry until you take a right on Old Woodlands (right after Target and right before USC Medical School) at a stoplight with a gas station. Take Old Woodlands until it ends. Go left on Hampton Trace for a very short distance and then turn right on Chimney Hill. Stay on Chimney Hill for about a mile as it winds around and then make a left on Wood Ride. The house number is 151.
Note: As always, there will be a potluck before the talk.

Links to previous activities of Professional Development Workshop: 98-99 ; 99-00 ; 00-01

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Graduate Student Linguistics Organization(GSLING): GSLING Fall Organizational Meeting

First Meeting:

Date: Wednesday, August 29th., 2001
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Hunter-Gatherer
Who: All USC linguistics students are encouraged to attend

Graduate Student LinguisticsOrganization (GSLING): Professional Development Workshops

Workshop 1:

Date: Friday, November 9th., 2001
Time: 3:30pm
Guest Speaker(s): Stan Dubinsky, Hyeson Park and Eric Holt
Topic: dissertation/thesis writing
Place: English Dept. lounge, on the first floor of the Humanities Classroom Bldg.

Links to previous activities of SLARG, click 99-00 ; 00-01

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Second Language ResearchGroup (SLARG):

First Meeting:

Topic: (1) DeKeyser 'The Robustness of Critical period effects in SLA';
(2) Review for the first SLA exam.
Time: 5:00pm, October18, 2001 (Thursday)
Place: Second floor of Sammi's Deli (just across the street from the horseshoe)

Second Meeting:

Topic: Native v.s. Non-native Knowledge of the Effects of Discourse Status on Word Order
Speakers: Hyeson Park and Lan Zhang
Time: 7:45 pm, November 15, 2001 (Thursday)
Place: Lori's place--Park Circle #610 (Park Circle is the tall building on the corner of Pickens and Blossom. Go up to the building and press 164 on the call box interface to be let in).
Note: Potluck party. Bring food.

Links to previous activities of LangCult, click: 00-01

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Language and Culture Reading Group (LangCult)

First Meeting:

Topic: The Confederate flag debate and the absence of an African-American voice in this debate. ( abstract )
Speaker: Lori Donath
Time: 8:00pm, November 9, 2001
Place: Lori's place--Park Circle #610 (Park Circle is the tall building on the corner of Pickens and Blossom. Go up to the building and press 164 on the call box interface to be let in).
Note: Bring food or beverages.

Second Meeting:

Topic: Questionnaire on Southern English
Speaker: William Labov
Time: 6:00 pm, December 1, 2001 (Saturday)
Place:Cliff Apartments #612--the apartment of Petia Alexieva and Natalia Ramos-Silva.
Direction: Get on Pickens Street going away from campus, cross Blossom, then turn right onto Whaley Street at the stop light. Go down Whaley Street past the 2 green dorms; turn right at Cliff apartments into the smaller parking lot. (It's the brown building.) Get on the elevator (in case you forget), when you get out of the elevator go to the right-the apartment # is 612. Phone # is 544-0337 in case you get lost.
Preparation: You can prepare for the meeting by looking over Chapter 18 of the draft chapters of the Atlas of North American English on the website of the Telsur project: www.ling.upenn.edu/phonoatlas
Note: Potluck party. Bring food.

Third Meeting:

Topic: Self-Justification, Sri Lanka Style. ( abstract )
Speaker: Theresa McGarry
Time: 7:00 pm, March 7, 2002 (Thursday)
Place: Park Circle #610, home of Lori Donath. (Park Circle is the tall building on the corner of Pickens and Blossom. Go up to the building and press 164 on the call box interface to be let in).
Note: Bring food

Fourth Meeting:

Topic: Lord Simpleton and Banksby Get madly Gay: Dueling Voices in a Barbadian Burlesque. ( abstract , handout )
Speaker: Janina Fenigsen
Time: 7:00 pm, April 21, 2002 (Sunday)
Place: Apt A. 1006 Marion St. Home of Changyong Liao and Lan Zhang. ( It is a two story red brick house right on the corner of Pendleton and Marion.)
Note: Potluck party. Bring food

Syntax Reading Group (SynRG) [ SynRG webpage ]

First Meeting:

Time: 1:15 pm, February 1, Friday
Place: Immaculate Consumption
Topic: Everyone's research interests

Second Meeting:

Time: 2:15 pm, February 22, Friday
Place: Immaculate Consumption
Topic: c-selection and s-selection; student work discussion (Ana's abstract on quantifier).

Third Meeting:
Time: 12:00 noon, March 15, Friday
Place: Rising High (Five Points)
Topic: We'll talk about count and mass nouns, and obligatory adjuncts, and maybe some other stuff as well.

Fourth Meeting:
Time: 2:15 pm, March 29, Friday
Place: Rising High (Five Points)
Topic: Genitive case and quanitifer phrases (Ana's abstract); also, superiority (the linguistic kind).

Fifth Meeting:
Time: 2:15 pm, April 5, Friday
Place: Rising High (Five Points)
Topic: Superiority (the linguistic kind) and possessor phrases.

Sixth Meeting:
Time: 2:15 pm, April 26, Friday
Place: Rising High (Five Points)
Topic: Mila will be presenting her work on Bulgarian possessives.

Seventh Meeting:
Time: 2:00 pm, June 14, Friday
Place: English Dept. 1st Floor Lounge
Topic: Discussion of Carstens' article on serial constructions.