Research Groups: Friday, February 8

Note the irregular meeting times/places this week.

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in SS 4043
Psycholinguistics Group

TBA

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in SS2119
Syntax Group
Liam Donohue (MA): "Making perfect sense: The curious case of the Georgian present perfect(s)."
Georgian possesses two verb forms which are called 'perfect' and translated in English as present perfects. One is periphrastic (composed of a past participle plus auxiliary verb) and the other is synthetic (agglutinated). In this presentation I will show how the patterns of distribution for these two forms differ in significant ways, possibly yielding insight into the broader tense/aspect landscape of Georgian.

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM in SS 560
Fieldwork Group
Group discussion led by Andrew Peters (Ph.D.): Vander Klok, Jozina (2013). Pure possibility and pure necessity modals in Paciran Javanese. Oceanic Linguistics, 52(2), 341-374.