Category: conferences

  • Submission deadline reminders

    Phonologization symposium: January 15 WCCFL: January 15 This year’s WCCFL will be held at UCLA on May 16-18. The two special session topics are as follows: Experimental Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics Explaining Phonological Typology: Channel or Analytic Bias?

  • CLS 44 Call for Papers

    CLS44 will be held April 24-26, 2008. This year’s conference will include a main session on modeling language evolution, a general linguistics session, and three parasessions: non-truth conditional facets of meaning, code switching and non-verbal communication. Session descriptions and submission information can be found at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/call.html.

  • Adam Baker at 2007 Amsterdam Colloquium

    Adam Baker will present “Discourse coherence and VP ellipsis with split antecedents” at the 2007 Amsterdam Colloquium, one of the most prestigious conferences in semantics. Well done, Adam!

  • LSA and SSILA acceptances

    A huge number of University of Chicago linguists will be presenting at the LSA and SSILA meetings on January 3-6, 2008. Presenters at the LSA include: Nikki Adams Lobke Aelbrecht (visiting grad student during winter quarter) Maximilian Bane Jacqueline Bunting Amy Franklin Victor Friedman Anastasia Giannakidou Susan Goldin-Meadow James Kirby Yaron McNabb Jason Riggle Osamu…

  • The 1st Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle

    A bunch of U of C linguists will be presenting at the first Arizona Linguistics Circle meeting at University of Arizona, Oct 19-21: Jackie Bunting: ”Identifying the Antecedent: Slovak Pronouns and the PAH” Malcolm Elliott: ”Nonhuman Participants and zibun in Japanese” Kjersti Stensrud: ”Reanalyzing Unergative Pseudocoordinations in Norwegian”