<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Forwarded through several steps. The location is Room 103, 10 Washington Place, New York City (Google maps: <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/Gp5qT">http://goo.gl/maps/Gp5qT</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Linguistics <<a href="mailto:linguistics@gc.cuny.edu">linguistics@gc.cuny.edu</a>></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Sep 23, 2013 2:14 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[penguists] FW: NYU Syntax Brown Bag: Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University), Friday, September 27, noon, Rm 103 of 10 WP</b><br></span></div><br><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">See below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Vera Zu [mailto:verazu@nyu.edu] <br><br></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The second talk of this year's syntax brown bag series will be given by <a href="http://ccsu.academia.edu/HelenKoulidobrova" target="_blank">Helen Koulidobrova</a> (Central Connecticut State University) this coming Friday, at noon, in room 103, 10 Washington Place. The title and abstract are as follows:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">---<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Elide me bare: null arguments (and related phenomena) in American Sign Language</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I examine the nature of the null arguments (subjects and objects) in American Sign Language (ASL) and argue that the traditional analyses must be abandoned. It is typically assumed that in the presence of agreement, the null argument is a silent pronoun (pro, e.g. Rizzi 1986), while with lack thereof, the null argument is a topic-bound variable (e.g. Huang 1984). I introduce novel data that pose a problem for the traditional view. As the null argument is subjected to a variety of diagnostics, I demonstrate that it is best analyzed as an instantiation of ‘surface anaphora’ – namely, ellipsis of the bare NP argument. Along the way, a few other phenomena are addressed, such as VP-ellipsis, syntax of bare NPs, and the contribution of space to agreement in Sign Languages.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">---<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I'd also like to draw your attention to two more additions to the brown bag schedule: <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Phoevos Panagiotidis (U Cyprus) will be giving a talk on Oct 24 (Thursday) and Sjef Barbiers </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(<span style="color:#031448">Meertens Instituut)</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> will visit us on Nov 12 (Tuesday). Both talks will start at the special time of 5:00 pm. The venue will be the usual room 103 of 10 Washington Place.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The full schedule is as follows, which can also be found on the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/nyusyntaxbrownbag/home" target="_blank">Brown Bag Website</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999;background:white">Sept 6, Itamar Kastner (NYU)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sept 27, Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oct 4, Edwin Williams (Princeton)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oct 11, Richard S. Kayne (NYU)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oct 24, Phoevos Panagiotidis (U Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nov 8, Thomas Graf (Stony Brook)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nov 12, Sjef Barbiers </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(<span style="color:#031448">Meertens Instituut)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nov 15, Francisco Ordonez (Stony Brook)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dec 6, Neil Myler (NYU)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All are welcome! Snacks and drinks will be provided as always. I look forward to seeing many of you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>Vera Zu<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Department of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">New York University<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">10 Washington Place<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">New York, NY 10003<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:verazu@nyu.edu" target="_blank">verazu@nyu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://files.nyu.edu/xz500/public/ " target="_blank">https://files.nyu.edu/xz500/public/<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>