Month: October 2007
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Symposium on Phonologization
The Phonology Laboratory will host a symposium on “phonologization” at the Franke Institute on April 25-26, 2008. Invited speakers include Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley), Beth Hume (OSU), Norma Mendoza-Denton (Univ. of Arizona), and Elliot Moreton (Univ. of North Carolina). The deadline for submission is January 15, 2008. For more info, please visit http://humanities.uchicago.edu/phonlab/phonologization.html.
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Chris Kennedy celebrated his 40th birthday in Paris!
Chris Kennedy turned 40 on October 3. He celebrated his birthday in Paris, where he was an invited speaker for the 2007 Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris. Before Paris, he gave talks at the International Conference on Adjectives in Lille, and at the Workshop on Measurability in Tromsø. Happy birthday, Chris!
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Merchant and Boyle to present at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference
Jason Merchant and recent alum John Boyle will be presenting at the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference to be held on October 26-28 at the University of Kansas. Jason will talk about “Spurious coordination in Vlach multiple wh-fronting” and John will present ”The Hidatsa mood markers revisited”.