Discussion Groups

The Computational Linguistics Tea
Meets: Friday 10-11, Parlin 10
Current Tea czar: Chris Brown
Contact information: Katrin Erk, Jason Baldridge, Chris Brown

Natural Language Learning
This is a reading group for papers in computational linguistics
Meets: Friday 10-11, ACES 3.408 (every 2nd week, alternating with Compling Tea)
Contact: Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk, Jason Baldridge

Historical Linguistics Circle Discussion Group
HLC is an informal interdepartmental forum for the presentation and discussion of in-progress or completed research related to language change. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are all welcome to attend and/or present.
HLC organizers: Eric Campbell, Niamh Kelly, Vijay John
Group mailing list: hist-ling-ut@utlists.utexas.edu
Unless otherwise noted, meetings will be held on (some) Fridays at 3:00 p.m. in Parlin 302.

Spring 2012 Schedule:
2/3 Aimee Lawrence (Dept. of Linguistics) - Reconstruction of Proto-Kampa verbal morphology
Kyle Jerro (Dept. of Linguistics) - NP-internal person agreement in Bantu
2/24 Nyoman Udayana (Dept. of Linguistics) - Two passives in Balinese: historical and pragmatic perspectives
3/9 Na'ama Patel (Middle Eastern Studies) - The Amharic definite pronoun in typological and historical context
3/30 Tammi Stout (Dept. of Linguistics) - The Loss of Case from Sanskrit to Hindi
Daniel Valle (Dept. of Linguistics) - From independent pronouns to agreement markers: evidence from the Panoan linguistic family.
4/20 Annemarie Verkerk (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) - The evolution of motion event encoding in Indo-European
Adam Tallman (Dept. of Linguistics) - Algonquian and her sisters: A talk on the methodology and history of comparative lumping