Category: conferences

  • Conference on Gesture, Sign and Language

    We invite you to a conference inaugurating the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago.  The conference, which is jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities, will be held on March 8-9, 2013, in Breasted Hall in the Oriental Institute (see the attached poster and schedule or the…

  • Baglini and Francez at WCCFL 31

    Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez presented at WCCFL 31 recently: Rebekah Baglini. Deriving target and resultant states Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez. The implications of managing Our alum, Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) was there as well!  

  • Chicagoans head to BLS

    Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Congratulations to all! Dorothea Hoffmann: Mapping words and mapping worlds: Frames of Reference in MalakMalak Martina Martinovic: The topic-comment structure in copular sentences: evidence from Wolof Chieu Nguyen: Quantification in the left periphery: the duality of universal quantification and contrastive…

  • Chicago Linguists heading to LSA in Boston

    The University of Chicago has another great showing at the annual meeting of the LSA (Boston) this year! The following papers were presented: Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, and Karlos Arregi: Number marking in Western Armenian: a non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy Rebekah Baglini: The lexical semantics of derived states  (Poster) Rebekah Baglini, Lenore Grenoble, and…

  • Chatzopoulou gave two talks in March

    Aikaterini Chatzopoulou presented “Renewal and inertia in the history of Greek negation” at Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2012) on March 8th and “Jespersen’s Cycle Redefined” at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium on March 24.