Past Schedules

For current events, see the current schedule

Fieldwork in Indonesia

Peter Svenonius and Minjeong Son travelled to Indonesia to conduct fieldwork on Indonesian languages in January 2008.

Courses in India

Hyderabad

In the week of November 26-30, Peter Svenonius held a course on cross-linguistic expressions of Space and Directed Motion at the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad.

Approximate schedule
Wednesday 28.11 Thursday 29.11
10-1: Introduction to Adpositions 10-1: AxParts
2.30-4.30: Meaning and Structure

2.30-4.30: Directed Motion

Delhi

In the week of December 3-9, Peter Svenonius held a course on cross-linguistic expressions of Space and Directed Motion at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and Professor Gillian Ramchand held a related course on Complex Predicates (marked in red below) which continued Monday, December 10.

Tentative schedule
Tuesday 04.12 Wednesday 05.12 Thursday 06.12 Friday 07.12 Saturday 08.12 Sunday 09.12
        11-1, Room 101: AxParts 11-1, Room 101: Directed Motion

Ramchand 2-4

2-5 Committee Room: Introduction to Adpositions

Ramchand 2-4

2-5 Room 101: Meaning and Structure 2-4 Decomposition 2-4 Summary

 

Readings for both Courses

Relevant readings for both courses include the following:

Svenonius, Peter. To appear. Spatial P in English, in The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, vol. 6, edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi. Oxford University Press.

Svenonius, Peter. In press. Adpositions, Particles, and the Arguments they Introduce, to appear in Argument Structure, ed. by Eric Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Giorgos Spathas. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 71-110.

Svenonius, Peter. 2006. The Emergence of Axial Parts, Nordlyd 33.1:49-77.

Questionnaires for both courses

1. Locative Relations and Spatial Configurations: Wordy version (with instruction) Short version (for writing answers)

2. Basic Expressions of Location: Wordy version (with instruction) Short version (for writing answers)

3. Expressions of Location and Directed Motion: Wordy version (with instruction) Short version (for writing answers)

4. Directed Motion with Manner of Motion: Wordy version (with instruction) Short version (for writing answers)

5. Semantic Roles: Wordy version (with instruction) Short version (for writing answers)

Other past events

July 2007: The Physiology of P at the LSA Summer Institute at Stanford University

June 2007: Miniconference

Spring 2007: Joint seminar with Gillian Ramchand on Paths and Scales

February 2007: Minicourse on P at UCLA

Fall 2006: No semester-long seminar

Anatomy of the category P at EALing at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris 18-26 September, 2006

Spring 2006 Semester-long seminar in Tromsø

P: Anatomy of a category at the LOT Winter School in Amsterdam in January 2006

Fall 2005 Semester-long seminar in Tromsø

For prior events, see the previous schedule.