A reminder to all that the deadline for submitting abstracts for CLS 45 is THIS Friday. All abstracts MUST be submitted by 11:59 p.m. CST by Friday, January 16, 2009. Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by late February 2009.
Remember, in order to submit, you must first register via the Chicago Linguistic Society website and follow all submission guidelines.
CLS 45 eagerly anticipates this year’s contributions for another outstanding conference, to be held April 16-18. Don’t delay!
After our holiday hiatus, this year’s colloquium series resumes with the first of four (so far) scheduled talks for the Winter quarter. Tania Ionin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be presenting on “The scope of English indefinites: an experimental investigation” (abstract here).
As usual, this talk will take place on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Cobb 201, with department tea immediately following. We hope to see many people there as we kick off another quarter!
Mark your calendars – the Karen Landahl Center for Linguistics Research will be the site of two exciting linguistics talks this Friday, December 5.
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel/NYU) will be visiting the department to present some of his recent work. Van Craenenbroeck’s “What does silence look like? On the unpronounced syntax of sluicing,” in part a response to our own Jason Merchant, will be discussed from 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Then at 3:30 p.m., the University of Chicago’s Steven Small (Neurology/Psychology) will be the guest speaker at the latest meeting of the workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation. The abstract for his presentation, “The Biology of Face-to-Face Communication: Action, Understanding, and Language,” can be found here.
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Elsewhere on campus, Neuroscience lab post-doc candidate Kenny Vaden (UC Irvine) will be giving a talk entitled “Adaptation to Phonologically Similar Words in Bilateral Superior Temporal Sulci.” It will be in the Brain Research Imaging Center conference room (Q300) on Friday at 9:00 a.m.
All great ways to finish up the quarter before the long break. We hope many of you can make it!
. . . are due to two fourth-year Ph.D. students, Osamu Sawada and Jackie Bunting!
Osamu’s manuscript “Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison: An economy-based approach” was accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Pragmatics. As department chair Chris Kennedy has expressed, “This is a very impressive achievement indeed — well done, Osamu!”
Meanwhile, Jackie’s manuscript, “‘Give’ and take: How dative gi contributed to the decline of detransitive taki,” has been accepted for publication into the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Nice work!
April Grotberg’s poster submission, “Reconstructing protohistorical language contact from non-linguistic data,” was recently accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The meeting, which will be held here in Chicago, is scheduled for February 12-16, 2009. Those who are in the area and who will be attending the conference are highly encouraged to stop by!