Month: May 2009

  • Success! Even more QP defenses

    Congratulations to Juan Bueno-Holle, Alice Lemieux and Ryan Bochnak for each successfully defending a qualifying paper this spring! Juan defended his second QP, entitled “Lexical Tone in Isthmus Zapotec.” Meanwhile, Alice successfully defended her first QP, “A Reanalysis of Washo Bipartite Stems,” and Ryan defended his, “Half as a promiscuous modifier.”  Great job to all of you—may there be more to…

  • Nick Fleisher colloquium on May 14

    Attributive Adjectives and the Semantics of Inappropriateness May 14, 3:30-5pm, Cobb 201 Nick Fleisher, Wayne State University In this talk I discuss the syntax and semantics of a previously unexamined English attributive adjective construction and its implications for the study of gradable adjectives in the positive degree. The construction, which I call the nominal attributive-with-infinitive…

  • Public conversation with Lila Gleitman on May 11

    The second in a series of public conversations entitled Lives in Linguistics Lila Gleitman Professor   Rutgers University   Monday, 11 May 2009 4 pm Franke Institute for the Humanities Regenstein Library The University of Chicago

  • Nicholas Ostler lecture on May 12

    “The Jungle is Neutral: Newcomer Languages Face New Media” Nicholas Ostler, President, Foundation for Endangered Languages Tuesday, May 12 4:00-5:30 pm with reception to follow at Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Co-sponsored by the Big Problems program in the College and the Franke Institute for the Humanities Nicholas Ostler is…

  • Bauer on ultrasound in linguistic research

    Matt Bauer (Illinois Institute of Technology) will be giving  a special presentation the use of ultrasound  in linguistic research at 10:30am on May 11, 2009 in the Landahl Center for Linguistic Research. A short description of this presentation is given below: The use of ultrasound in linguistic research represents a non-invasive, easy to use, portable, and (relatively) inexpensive…