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| 2003-2004 Series |
| Mercedes Nino-Murcia, Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Iowa, The Alphabet on the Andean Heights: Its fortune in Two Villages. |
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| 2002-2003 Series |
| Elena Gavruseva, Linguistics Department, University of Iowa, Discovering the Bare Essentials of Bilinguals Syntax: A Case of Bare Predicates. |
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| Brigittine French, Mellon Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College, Mayan Language Revitalization in Guatemala. |
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| 2000-2001 Series |
| Karen Van Hoek, Michigan Language Center, Perspective taking and pronominal anaphora.'' |
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| Adele Goldberg, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Constructing meaning.'' |
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| Chris Brew, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Linguistic applications of natural language processing.'' |
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| 1999-2000 Series |
| Stephanie Harves, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Truth, Meaning, and the Chomskyan Revolution: A Case Study in Formal Semantics. *Alumni Scholar Lecture* |
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| Randi C. Martin, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Short-term memory, language processing, and language learning: evidence from neuropsychology.'' |
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| Daniel O'Connell, Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, Typical Clinton: Brazen it out?'' |
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| Zhizhong Yang, Department of Applied Foreign Language Studies, Nanjing University, A brief comparison between English and Chinese idioms.'' |
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| 1998-1999 Series |
| Mary Buchholz 1990, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 'Emotional intelligence' and interactional intelligence: the sociolinguistic competence of nerds.'' *Alumni Scholar Lecture* |
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| Andrew Pessin, Department of Philosophy, Kenyon College, Do future-tense sentences have a truth-value?'' |
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| Gary Ebbs, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, A puzzle about sameness of extension across time.'' |
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| William Davies, Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Free word order without the freedom.'' |
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| Salikoko Mufwene, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Ebonics: When ethnicity is rated over global history.'' |
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| 1997-1998 Series |
| David Stern, Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, Language and practice. |
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| Barbara Matthies, Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University, Helping people learn English.'' |
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| 1996-1997 Series |
| Dell Hymes, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Native American narrative as poetry.'' |
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| Jerrold Sadock, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Parallel structures in grammar.'' |
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| 1995-1996 Series |
| Michael Pomper, Speech Services of East Central Iowa, Speech and language errors have rules, too.'' |
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| Ron Casson, Department of Anthropology, Oberlin College, Where does color come from? Linguistic innovation in English and Turkish color terminology.'' |
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| 1994-1995 Series |
| Diane May, Hillhaven Corporation, Language speech pathology: why talk isn't cheap.'' |
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| Brenda Farnell, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Getting to the point: space, time, and the semantics of storytelling in Plains Indian sign language.'' |
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| Kara Soyhun, Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College, The assertion fallacy revisited.'' |
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| William Davies, Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Linguistic theory and second language studies: where the pendulum is now.'' |
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| Heimir Geirsson, Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College, Meaning and reference: giving Humpty Dumpty his due.'' |
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| 1993-1994 series |
| Russell Tabbert, Department of English, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Linguistic variety in America: will we all speak `general American'?'' |
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| Nora England, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Mayan languages.'' |
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| Stephen Neale, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, Form and representation.'' |
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| Russell Tabbert, Department of English, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Language authority in America: in grammar and Webster we trust.'' |
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