Month: March 2008

  • CFP: 2008 LSA Summer Meeting

    2008 LSA Summer Meeting for Graduate and Undergraduate Students Language as Interface The Ohio State University, July 10-13, 2008 Abstracts for paper or poster presentations must be submitted by Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-summer08.cfm . Abstract review and notifications of acceptance will be done by April 30 at the latest. Registration for the LSA…

  • Suwon Yoon at WAFL

    Suwon Yoon will present “Mood in Abstract Complementizers: Altaic vs. non-Altaic languages” at WAFL 5 (The fifth Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics) at SOAS in London in May.

  • Kennedy at SALT 18

    The program for this year’s SALT has now been posted. Chris Kenndey will be presenting “What an ‘average’ semantics needs” with Jason Stanley from Rutgers.

  • Chicagoans at LabPhon 11

    A bunch of Chicago linguists will be heading to New Zealand this summer for LabPhon 11, hosted by the Victoria University of Wellington. The presentations include… James Kirby and Alan Yu: Morphological paradigm effects on vowel articulation. Partha Niyogi and Morgan Sonderegger: What determines the stability of variation? A dynamical systems study of a stress…

  • Sociolinguistics Fest in June at Indiana University

    Indiana University will host the Sociolinguistics Fest during the week of June 9th. During the week there will be a set of minicourses on the topic of Language, Gender, Identity, Variation and Ideology given by Mary Bucholtz, Scott Kiesling, Dennis Preston, Sali Tagliaomonte and Susan Herring/John Paolillo followed by a one day conference. Details on…