Category: conferences

  • Chicagoans head to LSA!

    Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 89th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations to all! Asia Pietraszko “Discourse configurationality and agreement in Ndebele” Emily Hanink “The `Missing-P’ Phenomenon in German: Free Relatives are Super Light-headed” Alan Yu, Daniel Chen, Katie Franich, Yosh Halberstam, Jacob Phillips, & Betsy Pillion…

  • Photos from the Workshop on Sound Change Actuation

    The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation was a great success. In case you miss the action, here are some photos from the workshop: Album 1 and Album 2.

  • Francez and Bochnak at SALT 23

    Both Itamar Francez and Ryan Bochnak will be presenting at SALT 23 on May 3-5. The titles of their presentations are Ashwini Deo, Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden: From change to value difference in degree achievements Ryan Bochnak: Scale exhaustivity and the modification condition (talk alternate)

  • Workshop on Sound Change Actuation

    The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, a satellite meeting of CLS, will take place next Wednesday and Thursday (April 17-18). The Wednesday workshop will take place in the South Lounge of the Reynolds Club. The Thursday workshop will take place at the Franke Institute. The full program can be found here: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phonlab/sound-change-actuation/  

  • Beltrama and Xiang at PLC 37

    Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang presented “Rescuing exists! An experimental study on island violations and resumptive pronouns in Italian” at the Penn Linguistic Colloquium last weekend. Suwon Yoon (PhD, 2011) also presented “Main Clause Phenomena at the Syntax-Semantics Interface” there!