Category: talks

  • Kratzer on campus Friday

    This Friday, June 5, the Workshop on Philosophy of Language and Semantics, co-sponsored by the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, will be hosting Angelika Kratzer from UMass Amherst. Her talk will be in Cobb 110 from 1-3 p.m. Please join us!

  • Nick Fleisher colloquium on May 14

    Attributive Adjectives and the Semantics of Inappropriateness May 14, 3:30-5pm, Cobb 201 Nick Fleisher, Wayne State University In this talk I discuss the syntax and semantics of a previously unexamined English attributive adjective construction and its implications for the study of gradable adjectives in the positive degree. The construction, which I call the nominal attributive-with-infinitive…

  • Public conversation with Lila Gleitman on May 11

    The second in a series of public conversations entitled Lives in Linguistics Lila Gleitman Professor   Rutgers University   Monday, 11 May 2009 4 pm Franke Institute for the Humanities Regenstein Library The University of Chicago

  • Nicholas Ostler lecture on May 12

    “The Jungle is Neutral: Newcomer Languages Face New Media” Nicholas Ostler, President, Foundation for Endangered Languages Tuesday, May 12 4:00-5:30 pm with reception to follow at Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Co-sponsored by the Big Problems program in the College and the Franke Institute for the Humanities Nicholas Ostler is…

  • Bauer on ultrasound in linguistic research

    Matt Bauer (Illinois Institute of Technology) will be giving  a special presentation the use of ultrasound  in linguistic research at 10:30am on May 11, 2009 in the Landahl Center for Linguistic Research. A short description of this presentation is given below: The use of ultrasound in linguistic research represents a non-invasive, easy to use, portable, and (relatively) inexpensive…