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Attention Slavicists:

Kelly Maynard of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has announced a new web page dedicated to the Albanian Linguistics Workshop which was held on February 28, 2009 at the University of Chicago. Speakers included Eric Hamp, Brian Joseph, Jerry Morgan, and others.

Audio recordings of many of the talks accompanied by .pdf files of the handouts or screen captures of the presentations (combined audio recordings and slides) are available.  Scrolling down, there’s even a video of Eric Hamp’s full 90-minute lecture. Enjoy!

CLS 45 is here!

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society starts tomorrow!

The conference will be held at the International House from Thursday through Saturday. U of C students attend for free, so just go right to the “pre-registration check-in” table. All others can check in at the registration table.

As you know, our theme this year is “Locality in Language,” and we will kick off the conference Thursday morning with talks on locality in phonology and syntax.

Note: There will be no tea in the linguistics lounge this week, but all graduate students are invited to attend the grad-student mixer on Thursday evening at 8 pm in the pub, and all conference attendees are invited to the CLS banquet on Saturday night.

We hope to see you this weekend!

Upcoming talks for Dahlstrom and Kirby

This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July.

James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech in Portland on May 23. Six days later, James will be presenting “Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese” at the 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society in Saigon.

Fun, fun, fun: QP Fest next week

Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows:

March 16 (Location: Harper 140)

1-1:30

Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda

1:30-2

Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign

2-2:30

Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean

Break

 

3-3:30

Pat Rich: French expletive negation

3:30-4

Luisandro Mendes De Souza: Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese and the Verbal Domain

4-4:30

Pete Klecha: The Modality of English Futures


March 17 (Location: Harper 130)

9-9:30

Andy Dombrowski: Albanian-Slavic Phonological Contact

9:30-10

Juan Bueno Holle: Reference-tracking in Isthmus Zapotec

10-10:30

Alice Lemieux: Washo Bipartite Stems

Break

 

11-11:30

Max Bane: Grammatical Correlates of Variation in the English Dative Alternation

11:30-12

Yaron McNabb: Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic

12-12:30

Susan Rizzo: Grandfather Effects and Derived Environment Effects in Harmonic Grammar