March 19, 2010

Lansdowne Lecture Series

Dr Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz), this year's Lansdowne Lecturer for linguistics, will be presenting three talks next week:

Tuesday Mar.23
7:00-9:00pm, HHB 105
“How Universal Are Parts of Speech?"

Thursday Mar.25
11:30am-12:50pm, HHB 110
“Sound System and Writing System Clash”

Thursday Mar.25
3:30-5:00pm, CleA304
“The Syntax and Semantics of Chamorro Possessors”

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