Carol Myers-Scotton
Linguistics Program and English Department, University of South Carolina

The many implications of looking at morphemes from the standpoint of production

Place: Gambrell 151
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, September 29, 2000

Stanley Dubinsky
Linguistics Program and English Department, University of South Carolina

Event structure licensing of extractions from NP

Place: Gambrell 151
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday & Saturday, October 27-28, 2000

Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor (Bio Sketch)
English Department, North Carolina State University

Workshop on community-based sociolinguistic studies in the Carolinas

Place: Gambrell Hall 428-429
Time:  October 27, 2000 (2:00-4:30) and Saturday, October 28, 2000 (10:00-12:30)

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program, the Department of English, and the College of Liberal Arts.

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Friday, November 10, 2000

Sarah Blackwell
Linguistics Program/Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia

Why use a pronoun?
Cognitive and pragmatic constraints on the use of overt null subjects in Spanish narratives

Place: 151 Gambrell Hall
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

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Friday, December 1, 2000

Darrell Dernoshek
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of South Carolina

A comparison of a reductive grammar approach with other mainstream methodologies in the teaching of Spanish as a second language

Place: 151 Gambrell Hall
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

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Thursday, January 25, 2001

Susan Cook
Yale University

Urban language and language ideology in post-apartheid South Africa

Place: 318 Hamilton
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

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Friday, January 26, 2001

Dennis Preston
Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University

The linguistic theories of real people

Place: 151 Gambrell Hall
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, English, and Philosophy, and the Linguistics Program.

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Thursday, February 1, 2001

Janina Fenigsen
Brandeis University

Old modernities and new:
Language, alienation, and postcolonial selves in Barbados

Place: 318 Hamilton
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

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Friday, February 2, 2001

Janice Jackson
Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas-Austin

Difference versus disorder in African-American English:
The role of linguistic theory

Place: USC Speech & Hearing Center Conference Room
          (1601 St. Julian Place, off of Forest Drive between Two Notch and Beltline)
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of Communication Disorders.

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Friday, February 16, 2001

Craig Melchert
Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sociolinguistics in the Hittite Empire: Hittite and Luvian

Place: 151 Gambrell Hall
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by Linguistics Program.

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Friday, February 23, 2001

Walt Wolfram
English Department, North Carolina State University
and
Tracey Weldon
Linguistics Program and English Department, University of South Carolina

Dialects:
Myths and realities about the way we speak

Place:
Midlands Technical College
LET 110–Beltline Campus

Time:  9:30-11:00 a.m.

Sponsored by the Humanities, English, and Developmental Studies Departments of Midlands Technical College, and their Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement.

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Friday, March 2, 2001

Joaquim Camps
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida

Processing form and meaning in the input:
Pronominal reference in Spanish as a foreign language

Place: 151 Gambrell Hall
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

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Monday, March 19, 2001

Joe Opala
Department of History, James Madison University

The African-Gullah connection

Place: Russell House University Union Theater
Time:  7:00-9:00 P.M.

Sponsored by Organization of Africans at USC, Department of Anthropology, the Linguistics Program, and International Programs for Students.

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Friday, April 6, 2001

Frederick Newmeyer
Department of Linguistics, University of Washington

Formal linguistics and functional explanation: Bridging the gap

Place: 151 Gambrell Hall
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, April 13, 2001

Elizabeth Joiner
Department of French and Classics, University of South Carolina

The impact of sound stimulation training on foreign language listening comprehension and pronunciation:
Some recent findings

Place: TBA
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Thursday, April 26, 2001

Matthew Ciscel
Pearson Award Winner
Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina

Title: Social transfer and identity in second language acquisition
 

Place: 250 Gambrell Hall
Time:  3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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