The Research Training Group hosts two to three visiting professors each year. There is a block course in July by the Brugmann fellow. In addition, shorter block courses are offered by other visiting professors.
2020
No Brugmann fellow due to Covid19.
2019
Dr. Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester)
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| Talk | English /aɪ/-raising: new insights into an old problem |
2018
Prof. Dr. Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania)
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| Course | Beyond Active Voice: Variation and Argumentation: |
| Recent research has demonstrated remarkable variation in the typology of voices that are not active, including for example multiple types of passives, impersonals, object voice, and embedded voices. This class situates these constructions in a framework of morphosyntactic variation, examines the tests and argumentation used as diagnostics, and discusses serveral case-studies in depth. | |
| Talk | Case Relationships |
2017
Prof. Dr. Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
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| Course | Stratal OT in Phonology and Morphology |
| Talk | Typologies as Fitness Landscapes: Modeling Word Order Change |
2016
Prof. Dr. Donca Steriade (MIT)
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| Course | Cyclicity, Correspondence, Exponence: a unified analysis of cyclic and related phenomena |
2015
Prof. Dr. Chris Collins (New York University)
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| Talk | NEG raising, deletion, and parentheticals |
2014
Prof. Dr. Andrew Nevins (UC London)
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| Talk | Brazilian Portuguese confronts experimental methods and morphological productivity |
| Talk | Georgi's Pattern III in phonology: Nonfinal chains of tone |
2019
Prof. Dr. Rachel Walker (U of Southern California)
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| Course | Surface Correspondence Theory |
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Prof. Dr. Robert D. Borsley (Essex)
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| Course | An Introduction to Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar |
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| Talk | Issues in Welsh Syntax |
2017
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Bruening (U of Delaware)
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| Course | Consolidated Morphology |
| Talk | Idioms, Collocations, and Structure |
2016
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn)
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| Course | Case and Agreement without Abstract Case |
| Talk | Features, structure, and morphological universals |
2015
Prof. Dr. Sara Finley (Pacific Lutheran University)
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| Course | Phonological Learning: Representation and Typology |
| Talk | Morpheme Segmentation in Adult Learners: Effects of Frequency and Regularity |
2014
Prof. Dr. Rajesh Bhatt (Amherst)
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| Course | Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) |
| Talk | Polar questions and disjunction: clues from Hindi-Urdu 'kyaa' |