Month: January 2009
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Chicagoans travel to Berkeley
The University of Chicago will be well represented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, which will be held February 14-16, with several members of our department featured in the program. Student presenters will include Ryan Bochnak, “Promiscuous modification and cross-categorical part structures”; Jasmin Urban, “A Modal Approach to Open Questions”; and Osamu Sawada and…
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Hark! The CLS abstract deadline approaches!
A reminder to all that the deadline for submitting abstracts for CLS 45 is THIS Friday. All abstracts MUST be submitted by 11:59 p.m. CST by Friday, January 16, 2009. Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by late February 2009. Remember, in order to submit, you must first register via the Chicago Linguistic Society website and…
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Colloquia back in action this week
After our holiday hiatus, this year’s colloquium series resumes with the first of four (so far) scheduled talks for the Winter quarter. Tania Ionin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be presenting on “The scope of English indefinites: an experimental investigation” (abstract here). As usual, this talk will take place on Thursday at 3:30…