Month: October 2007

  • Jason Stanley’s talk on Friday

    Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language presents Jason Stanley Rutgers University Sly Pete: Indicative Conditionals and Context Dependence October 19, Friday, 11am – 1pm, Wieboldt 111

  • LSA and SSILA acceptances

    A huge number of University of Chicago linguists will be presenting at the LSA and SSILA meetings on January 3-6, 2008. Presenters at the LSA include: Nikki Adams Lobke Aelbrecht (visiting grad student during winter quarter) Maximilian Bane Jacqueline Bunting Amy Franklin Victor Friedman Anastasia Giannakidou Susan Goldin-Meadow James Kirby Yaron McNabb Jason Riggle Osamu…

  • The 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle

    A bunch of U of C linguists will be presenting at the first Arizona Linguistics Circle meeting at University of Arizona, Oct 19-21: Jackie Bunting: ”Identifying the Antecedent: Slovak Pronouns and the PAH” Malcolm Elliott: ”Nonhuman Participants and zibun in Japanese” Kjersti Stensrud: ”Reanalyzing Unergative Pseudocoordinations in Norwegian”

  • William Croft Colloquium

    William Croft University of New Mexico When is a modifier a modifier? A Radical Construction Grammar approach Thursday, October 11, 2007, 3:30-5pm, Cobb 201

  • Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language

    The topic of this year’s Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language, organized by Chris Kennedy and Anastasia Giannakidou this year, along with Josef Stern from Philosophy, is “compositionaltiy”. External speakers this fall include Zoltan Szabò (Oct 12), Jason Stanley (Oct 19), and Polly Jacobson (Nov 9). For more details, visit the workshop website at…