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	<title>BLING &#187; carissa</title>
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		<title>CLS 46 call for papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will be held April 8-10, 2010 at the University of Chicago. The conference will include a general session and three parasessions dedicated to Reevaluating the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Multilingualism, and Probabilistic Theories of Grammar.
We welcome papers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks as well as from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLA annual prize goes to Ben Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little birdie told us that Ben Smith (joint PhD candidate in Linguistics/Human Development) has won the 2009 Society of Linguistic Anthropology prize for Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student. His paper, &#8220;Of marbles and (little) men: Bad luck, Aymara boyhood and masculine identification,&#8221; will be published in the Journal of Lingusitic Anthropology. (By the way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U. of C. connection in latest Language issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The September 2009 issue of Language (Vol. 85, No. 3) contains a special section entitled &#8220;SIL and the disciplinary culture of linguistics,&#8221; comprising an important set of papers about the role of SIL&#8217;s linguistic work. Several of the contributors have connections to our department:  Lise Dobrin and Ken Olson are PhDs from our department; Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This weekend we&#8217;re SWAMPed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention all semanticists and acronym lovers: The Semantics Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies (SWAMP) will be taking place on campus this Friday, November 20.  The workshop brings together graduate student researchers from institutions across the Midwest. Ryan Bochnak and Tommy Grano are  among the presenters.
See the SWAMP website here, and do plan on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations, Osamu Sawada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already, give a big congratulations to Osamu Sawada (ABD), who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science to conduct research on his project &#8220;The semantics and pragmatics of scalar expressions: Their dimensionality and context-dependency&#8221;.
During the period of this fellowship (which will begin after he finishes his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merchant talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Merchant has given several invited talks this fall, beginning in September and just wrapping up last week:

Context and ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk. University College London. 11 November 2009.
What price ellipsis? Invited talk. Workshop on ellipsis. Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. 9-10 November 2009.
Context and types of ambiguity. Invited talk. Interdisciplinary symposium “Dimensions of ambiguity”. Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, [...]]]></description>
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