Category: conferences
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Chicagoans to NELS 42
Many current and former Chicago linguists will be heading to Toronto in November for NELS 42: Ryan Bochnack: The non-universal status of degrees: Evidence from Washo Jon Keane, Diane Brentari, & Jason Riggle: Co-articulation in ASL fingerspelling Martina Martinovic: The subject/non-subject asymmetry in Wolof Yaron McNabb: Hebrew and Arabic definite marking as post-syntactic local dislocation…
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Chicago semanticists in Europe
Chicago semanticists were busy making a name for themselves this summer! Many were in Utrecht for Sinn und Bedeutung: Rebekah Baglini: The scalar source of stative passives Tim Grinsell: The imperfective imperative Peter Klecha: Positive and conditional semantics for gradable modals Yusuke Kubota (Post-doc 2010-11, now at University of Tokyo): Scale compatibility and scale composition:…
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CLS 47: April 7-9!
The 47th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society is coming up, April 7-9 in Ida Noyes Hall. The conference program has been posted, and pre-registration for CLS 47 is now open on the CLS website until March 31. Prices are $20 for pre-registered students and $40 for pre-registered faculty and other attendees. Mailing pre-registration…
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Chicagoans to Barcelona
First year, Andrea Beltrama, will be presenting “Can a decent student get into Harvard? A study on scalar implicature and gradable adjectives” at the upcoming XPRAG, an experimental pragmatics conference, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, on June 2-4, 2011. Chris Kennedy and our alumna, Asli Ozyurek (joint PhD in Psych and Ling, 2000), are among…
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Grano and Kennedy to SALT
Tommy Grano will present “Mental action and event structure in the semantics of ‘try’” at SALT 21 to be held at Rutgers University on May 20 – May 22, 2011. Chris Kennedy is also one of the invited speakers.