Recent Invited Presentations
Anthony S. Kroch
May 1, 2005

April 2005

"Principles of morphosyntactic change." Lectures at the École Doctorale of the University of Geneva."

April 2005

"Morphological and syntactic evidence in language stability and language change." Department of Linguistics, Yale University."

March 2005

"The dynamics of language change." Lectures at the Department of Language Sciences at the University of York, UK.

January 2005

"The dialectic of competence and performance in the modern cognitive science of language." Department of Linguistics, Harvard University."

November 2004

"Language learning and language change." Conference on connectivity in multilingual settings, University of Hamburg.

October 2004

"The history of the English infinitive: some implications for the theory of grammar." University of Konstanz workshop on infinitives.

October 2004

"Modeling the time course of syntactic change." Keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.

March 2004

"Against drift." Keynote speaker at the University of North Carolina annual linguistics symposium.

January 2004

"Revisiting do." Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. University of Tübingen, Germany.

September 2003

"Lectures on Syntactic Change." Ecole d'Automne de Linguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

July 2003

"If at first you don't succeed: the time course of language acquisition." LSA Workshop on UG Principles and Input Data. Michigan State University.

March 2003

"Language learning and language change." Annual meeting of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN), Rio de Janeiro.

March 2003

"Imperfect learning and language change." Workshop on Explaining Linguistic Universals: Historical Convergence and Universal Grammar. University of California at Berkeley.

November 2002

"Imperfect learning and language change." Workshop on diachronic clues to synchronic syntax. University of Stuttgart, Germany.

September 2002

"Variation and change in the historical syntax of English." Henry Sweet lecture, fall meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Manchester, England.

July 2002

"Modeling language change: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" Guest lecture of SFB 441, University of Tübingen, Germany.

May 2001

"Topics in general and theoretical linguistics: a three lecture series." Beijing University Language and Culture Press, Beijing.

May 2001

"The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English and the Middle English Dictionary." Dictionary Society of North American Biennial Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

April 2001

"The status of the independence assumption in quantitative diachronic syntax." University of York, England.

February 2001

"A grammatical and quantitative perspective on the historical syntax of English." University of Helsinki, Finland.

February 2001

"Statistical regularities in grammatical change: evidence from diachronic corpora." University of Tübingen, Germany."

December 2000

"Recent advances in English historical syntax." Universidade Classica de Lisboa.

October 2000

"Grammar and Statistics in Syntactic Change." NWAVE 29, Michigan State University.

November 1999

"Statistical fingerprints of grammar in historical texts." University of California at Irvine.

February 1999

"Statistical Fingerprints of Dialect Variation and Language Change." Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Science, Michigan State University.

September 1998

"Statistical fingerprints of grammar in historical English texts." Workshop on historical corpus construction and use, Institute for Language Studies, University of Campinas, Brazil.

May 1998

"Dialect variation in the transition from XV to VX in Early Middle English." Fifth Biennial Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, York, England. (with Ann Taylor)

May 1998

"Revisiting do." Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. (with Chung-hye Han)

November 1997

"Inversion and equation in copular sentences." ZAS Workshop on (pseudo)clefts, Berlin, Germany. (with Caroline Heycock)

May 1997

"Pseudocleft connectivity: implications for the LF interface level." Tübingen Workshop on the Syntax/Semantics Interface. Tübingen, Germany. (with Caroline Heycock)

April 1997

"Pseudocleft connectivity." New York University Department of Linguistics.

April 1997

"The unity of opposites: the role of grammatical and social factors in the historical syntax of English." International Linguistic Association, New York.

March 1997

"V2 in Old and Middle English: implications for comparative syntax and language change." The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics.

January 1997

"Old English clause structure and Attract F." Twelfth Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, The Free University Amsterdam.