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Chicagoans at the 2013 LSA Institute

The 2013 LSA Institute will be held from June 24 to July 19 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Several Chicago faculty and (so-to-be) alumni of the Linguistics department will be teaching courses there:

  • Computational Modeling of Sound Change: James Kirby (PhD 2010, now at University of Edinburgh) and Morgan Sonderegger
  • Individual differences in sound change: Jeff Mielke (University of Ottawa) and Alan Yu
  • Introduction to Morphosyntax: Karlos Arregi
  • Language Variation and Thought: John A. Lucy (Comparative Human Development)

Metlay and Ribeiro defended dissertations

Double congratulations are in order to the two students who successfully defended their dissertations yesterday:  Don Metlay, for his dissertation on ‘[take] and the ASL Verb Complex: An Autolexical Account’, and Eduardo Ribeiro, for his dissertation ‘A Grammar of Karajá’.

Great job, Don and Eduardo!

Linglunch on April 11

Linglunch will feature two presentations on Wednesday, April 11 at noon down in the Landahl Center:

12.00 Andrea Beltrama – Italian-issimo: intensification at the semantic/pragmatics interface

12.30 Julia Thomas and Tim Grinsell – ‘Finna’ as a Socially Meaningful Quasi-Modal in African American English