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Prof. Giannakidou Announced as 10th Annual PLA Symposium Keynote Speaker

The Purdue Linguistics Association will be hosting its 10th Annual Symposium on April 10th and 11th. They are a regional symposium that highlights the work of exceptional undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate linguists. In addition to presentations from students representing a diversity of research topics in linguistics, they will have a special session titled ‘Scalar and Non-scalar Negative Polarity Items: Prosody, Syntax, and Semantics’ presented by Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou of the University of Chicago. Please visit their website [pla.purdue.org/symposium] for a detailed program.

Please feel free to email plasymposium@gmail.com with any questions.

Dates: April 10th – 11th
Location: Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Chicago Linguists at WCCFL 33

WCCFL is just around the corner and two Chicagoans will be presenting their work there:

  • Andrea Beltrama (U of Chicago). Flat-out metalinguistic. Extreme degree modification as speaker’s preference evaluation
  • Julian Grove (U of Chicago). Semantic Layers in DP

Way to go!

Tentative CLS 51 Schedule

Dear Chicago Linguists,

CLS 51 is pleased to share with you all the tentative schedule for the upcoming conference. The attached PDF is the tentative schedule and includes session titles, session members, paper titles, and invited speaker slots. Of course, this schedule is tentative, so the schedule may shift around a bit. Nevertheless, we wanted to share with all of you our exciting spread of talks!

CLS 51 Officers

Ksenia Ershova, Josh Falk, Jeff Geiger, Zach Hebert, Robert Lewis, Patrick Munoz, Jacob Phillips, Betsy Pillion

CLS51TentativeSchedule

Chicago Linguists at BLS

Chicago linguists will have another strong showing at the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society this year:

  • Andrea Beltrama (University of Chicago), Scale type totally matters! Intensification at the socio-semantics interface
  • Ksenia Ershova (University of Chicago), Non-canonical noun incorporation in Bzhedug Adyghe
  • Martina Martinovic & Peter Klecha (University of Chicago & Ohio State University), Exhaustivity, predication, and the semantics of movement

A full program of BLS 41 can be found here: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/bls41_schedule_01.pdf

Great job everyone!