Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language presents
Rutgers University
Sly Pete: Indicative Conditionals and Context Dependence
October 19, Friday, 11am – 1pm, Wieboldt 111
Monthly Archives: October 2007
LSA and SSILA acceptances
A huge number of University of Chicago linguists will be presenting at the LSA and SSILA meetings on January 3-6, 2008. Presenters at the LSA include:
- Nikki Adams
- Lobke Aelbrecht (visiting grad student during winter quarter)
- Maximilian Bane
- Jacqueline Bunting
- Amy Franklin
- Victor Friedman
- Anastasia Giannakidou
- Susan Goldin-Meadow
- James Kirby
- Yaron McNabb
- Jason Riggle
- Osamu Sawada
- Jerrold M Sadock
- Kjersti Stensrud
- John Sylak
- Christina Weaver
- Suwon Yoon
Besides presentations during the regular sessions, John Goldsmith will deliver one of the plenary lectures and Salikoko Mufwene and Susan Goldin-Meadow will be the speakers in an organized session, entitled ‘Language in Light of Evolution’.
Presenters at SSILA (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas) are as follows:
- John Boyle (recent PhD)
- Amy Dahlstrom
- Erin Debenport
- John Lucy (Human Development)
- Patrick Midtlyng
- Eduardo Ribeiro
- Alan Yu
The 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle
A bunch of U of C linguists will be presenting at the first Arizona Linguistics Circle meeting at University of Arizona, Oct 19-21:
- Jackie Bunting: ”Identifying the Antecedent: Slovak Pronouns and the PAH”
- Malcolm Elliott: ”Nonhuman Participants and zibun in Japanese”
- Kjersti Stensrud: ”Reanalyzing Unergative Pseudocoordinations in Norwegian”
William Croft Colloquium
University of New Mexico
When is a modifier a modifier? A Radical Construction Grammar approach
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 3:30-5pm, Cobb 201
Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language
The topic of this year’s Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language, organized by Chris Kennedy and Anastasia Giannakidou this year, along with Josef Stern from Philosophy, is “compositionaltiy”. External speakers this fall include Zoltan Szabò (Oct 12), Jason Stanley (Oct 19), and Polly Jacobson (Nov 9). For more details, visit the workshop website at http://semantics.uchicago.edu/workshops/spl/.