Sohini Ray
Senior Fellow
Center for the Study of World Religions
Harvard University
Senior Fellow
Center for the Study of World Religions
Harvard University
Peter Hallman is visiting professor of linguistics in the UNT Department of English. His current research concentrates on the relationships between morphology and syntax and between syntax and semantics. The first focuses on templatic morphology in Semitic and how it reflects its syntactic context, and the second on how quantification and case interact. He has previously worked extensively on verb-movement, in particular verb-second in Germanic and its alternations with verb-final and other non-verb-second orders. His presentation compares passivization in Lebanese Arabic and English and draws conclusions about the morphosyntactic composition of the passivization process and the syntactic role of arity changing morphology in general.
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S. Mufwene
Professor and Chair
Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
Wednesday, February 7th, 6:30 p.m.
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Professor Mufwene's recent research has focused on language evolution, including questions of language vitality and the development of creoles and of other varieties of European languages in their former settlement and exploitation colonies. His book on the subject matter is titled The Ecology of Language Evolution (in press, Cambridge UP). He has authored over 150 essays on these topics and on the semantics and morphosyntactic aspects of English, creoles, and Bantu languages.