Month: October 2007

  • Andrea Sims Colloquium

    The Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series presents Andrea D. Sims Northwestern University “When synchronic motivation disappears: On probabilities, paradigms, and processes of lexicalization” Thursday, November 1, 2007 Cobb 201, 3:30pm ABSTRACT In this paper I explore some of the conditions under which inflectional structures become lexicalized, and why they persist once established in the lexicon.…

  • John Searle Colloquium

    The Department of Comparative Human Development Colloquium Series presents JOHN SEARLE Professor, Department of Philosophy University of California, Berkeley “Language and Social Ontology” Tuesday, November 6th, 2007, 4:30pm Social Sciences 122 ABSTRACT In this talk I will show how all of human institutional reality is created and maintained by a single logico-linguistic process. The work…

  • Marina Terkourafi Colloquium

    The Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago presents MARINA TERKOURAFI University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Cooperation revisited and renewed Thursday, October 25, 2007 Cobb 201, 3.30-5 pm Since (at least) Bach and Harnish (1979), several attempts have been made to clarify what might be “the accepted purpose…of the talk exchange” mentioned by Grice…

  • Max Bane at the Workshop on Language and Cognition

    Max Bane will be speaking at the Workshop on Language and Cognition on “Multilingual Learning as Parameter Co-occurrence Clustering” on Friday, October 26 at 4pm in Green Hall, Room 104 (The Harris Room).

  • John Searle Colloquium

    The Department of Comparative Human Development Colloquium Series presents JOHN SEARLE Professor, Department of Philosophy University of California, Berkeley “Language and Social Ontology” Tuesday, November 6th, 2007, 4:30pm Social Sciences 122 ABSTRACT In this talk I will show how all of human institutional reality is created and maintained by a single logico-linguistic process. The work…