Month: October 2011

  • Nunberg Colloquium on November 3

    Geoffrey Nunberg (School of Information, UC Berkeley) will give a colloquium talk titled “On Having a Word for It” on Thursday, November 3, 3.30 pm at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Abstract: What does it signify that a language “has a word for” such-and-such a notion? For the general public, it sheds light on…

  • Meet the visitors

    Several scholars are visiting the department this quarter. Please give them a warm Chicago welcome! Elizaveta Bylinina (Lisa Bylinina) will spend this quarter in Chicago as a visiting student. She is  in a project on degree semantics in Utrecht Institute of Linguistics in Holland, but spend most of the time in Moscow with her family.…

  • Chicagoans at NWAV 40

    Several Chicagoans presented at NWAV 40 at Georgetown University, Oct 27-31. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (BA/MA ’98) and Abby Walker: Vocalic accommodation in a cross dialectal shadowing task Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (BA/MA ’98): Measuring implicit dialect awareness using the IAT Salikoko Mufwene: The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective Morgan Sonderegger, Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Erin…

  • Update from Victor Friedman

    “I just got back from giving a keynote address on Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia as linguistic areas at the meeting of the International Congress of Slavists’ Balkan Commission in Iasi.  While I was in the Balkans, I also stopped in Lerin (Greek Florina) to participate in the book launch of the first Modern Macedonian-Modern…

  • Giannakidou in Korea

    Anastasia Giannakidou gave two talks at Seoul National University titled “Referential vagueness and negative polarity: evidence from Greek and Korean” and “Wh-interminates and free choice: the view from Korean.” She also jointly presented a talk with Suwon Yoon (PhD 2011) and Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) on “On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives” at…