Category: conferences
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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…
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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…
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Midtlyng at UIUC African Linguistics conference
Patrick Midtlyng gave a talk entitled “The effects of speech rate on initial plosives and click accompaniments in Zulu” at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The conference was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last Friday, April 10. Great job, Patrick!
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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…
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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…