Aikaterini Chatzopoulou presented “Renewal and inertia in the history of Greek negation” at Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2012) on March 8th and “Jespersen’s Cycle Redefined” at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium on March 24.
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CLS program announced
The tentative program of CLS 48, which will take place on April 19-21, is now available.
Merchant gave colloquium talk at McGill
Jason Merchant gave a colloquium talk on “More comparatives than you can shake a stick at: The case of Greek” at the Department of Linguistics at McGill University.
WSCLA 17 Program
The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) will take place at the University of Chicago on March 9-11 in Ida Noyes Hall. In addition to the general session, there will be a special themed session focus on information structure as well as a round table discussion with the invited speakers on the role of youths in language revitalization efforts. Due to generous financial support from various funding sources, there is no registration for this conference. Everyone is invited!
The workshop schedule can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/wscla17/.
Chicagoans to present at WCCFL 30
Several Chicago linguists will be presenting at WCCFL 30 at UC Santa Cruz!
- Peter Alrenga (former post doc, now at Boston University), Chris Kennedy, and Jason Merchant: A New Standard of Comparison
- Jesse Harris (BA/MA 2003, now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Pomona College)On the Semantics of Domain Adjectives in English
- Steve Sanpietro, Ming Xiang, Jason Merchant: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse in Ellipsis: Accounting for Voice Mismatch
Great job y’all!