Winter Week 6 GM: Discourse, Sentence Intonation, and Word Order

Our next meeting is Wednesday, February 10th from 6-8pm, location Rolfe 2118 (note room change!)

Our Speaker: Professor Olga Yokoyama

Topic: “Discourse, Sentence Intonation, and Word Order”

Professor Yokoyama is a professor and the Chair of the Applied Linguistics Department at UCLA.  Some of her research interests include functional syntax and semantics, discourse grammar, Russian intonation and word order, gender linguistics, and folklore.  She teaches courses within the Applied Linguistics Department as well as GE courses, particularly in functional grammar and gender linguistics.