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!
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
“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 the author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (2005) and Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin (2008). The first is an unparalleled account of major language expansions through colonization since antiquity, richly grounded historically in dynamics of trade, political domination, and other socio-economic interactions between different populations.
T. Florian Jaeger (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Univ. of Rochester) will be visiting next Thursday and Friday, May 7-8. He will be giving a talk in the Language, Cognition and Computation Workshop (abstract to come) on Friday at 3:30 in the Karen Landahl Center.
He will also be giving two statistics tutorials: One (Thursday) on mixed models (linear and logit) and how to run/read them in R; and one (Friday) consisting of Q&A.
Mark your calendars – the Karen Landahl Center for Linguistics Research will be the site of two exciting linguistics talks this Friday, December 5.
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel/NYU) will be visiting the department to present some of his recent work. Van Craenenbroeck’s “What does silence look like? On the unpronounced syntax of sluicing,” in part a response to our own Jason Merchant, will be discussed from 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Then at 3:30 p.m., the University of Chicago’s Steven Small (Neurology/Psychology) will be the guest speaker at the latest meeting of the workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation. The abstract for his presentation, “The Biology of Face-to-Face Communication: Action, Understanding, and Language,” can be found here.
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Elsewhere on campus, Neuroscience lab post-doc candidate Kenny Vaden (UC Irvine) will be giving a talk entitled “Adaptation to Phonologically Similar Words in Bilateral Superior Temporal Sulci.” It will be in the Brain Research Imaging Center conference room (Q300) on Friday at 9:00 a.m.
All great ways to finish up the quarter before the long break. We hope many of you can make it!
The department is proud to announce the first Chicago Mini-Workshop on Basque Linguistics will be held on Monday, October 27. The program will include talks by Ricardo Etxepare of the University of the Basque Country on “Ways of building syntactic focus in Spanish and Basque”; U of C’s Anastasia Giannokodou on “Contextual domain restriction across languages”; Vidal Valmala of the University of the Basque Country on “Topic and focus as triggers for quantifier float”; and U of C’s Karlos Arregi on “Wackernagel effects in Basque verbs.” This half-day event will take place in Rosenwald Hall, Room 301. We hope to see many of you there!
A public screening of “The Linguists” will take place at the Franke Institute on Friday, May 9, at 2:30pm. The film will be followed by a discussion with David Harrison. All are welcome!