Month: April 2009

  • Paz and Debenport moving on up

    Alejandro Paz, joint PhD student in Linguistics and Anthropology, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto – Scarborough. The position is half in Linguistics and half in Intersections, Exchanges and Encounters in the Humanities. Meanwhile, Erin Debenport has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS postdoctoral fellowship for next year. Many congratulations to each of you, Erin…

  • Upcoming talks for Dahlstrom and Kirby

    This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July. James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd…

  • Jerry Sadock to be interviewed

    The department’s own Jerry Sadock will be the first interviewee in a series of  videotaped “Lives in Linguistics,” to be taped on April 21 in the Karen Landahl Center at 3:15. Friends are welcome to attend! We’ll be having two other guests in May: Catherine Chvany, on May 5, and Lila Gleitman on May 11, both…

  • James D. McCawley, 1938 – 1999

    Ten years ago today our dear colleague Jim McCawley died, very unexpectedly, of a heart attack.  For those who have more recently joined the Department of Linguistics at Chicago, you might be interested in the memorial page for Jim. Those who were fortunate enough to know him still miss him very much. We remember Jim…