Category: talks
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Reminder about colloquium
Due to job talks this month, the 2009-2010 colloquium series has had a delayed winter-quarter start. For all those waiting in eager anticipation, colloquia will finally resume next week, Thursday, February 25, with a talk by UChicago’s Katherine Kinzler (Psychology). More on her lab’s research can be found here. As usual, we’ll begin at 3:30…
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Winter 2010 colloquia
The Department of Linguistics will have its first colloquium of the (new) decade in a few weeks. For now, you can content yourself with our colloquium schedule for Winter quarter 2010 (abstracts available soon): February 25: Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago March 4: Craige Roberts, Ohio State University March 11: Marcela Depiante, University of Wisconsin-Eau…
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CK in HK
Last week, Chris Kennedy was out of the department—and the country—to give a four-part lecture series on “Vagueness and Comparison” (abstracts), kindly hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at Chinese University, Hong Kong. Thanks for the photo, Chris!
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Last LVC talk of the quarter today
Join us today at 3:30 in Harper 130 for the fifth and final talk of the Language Variation and Change Workshop. Kelly Maynard (Center for East European Russian/Eurasian Studies) will be giving her talk on “Balkan Sprachbund Features in Samsun Albanian” (abstract). Stick around afterwards for snacks, drinks, and hobnobbing.
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Merchant talks
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…