Category: conferences
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More upcoming conference talks
In addition to several BLS talks mentioned below, Chicago researchers will be presenting at a number of other upcoming conferences. At the upcoming (Feb 11) 16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas, Ryan Bochnak, Tim Grinsell, and Alan Yu will be presenting “Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo”.…
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UChicago at the LSA
The Chicago linguistic community made quite a showing at this year’s recent annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, including talks and posters by: Jason Merchant: Agreement into and out of ellipsis sites Jonathan Keane, Erin Dahlgren, Jason Riggle: Variation in segment duration in ASL fingerspelling Max Bane, Peter Graff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),…
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Chicagoans in and out of SWAMP
Last month, Rebekah Baglini presented a paper called “The syntax and event structure of the get-causative” at the 4th Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle in Tuscon. In addition, the 2010 iteration of everyone’s favorite acronym, the Semantics Workshop of the MidWest & Prairies (SWAMP), is happening this weekend (Nov. 13) at the University of Michigan,…
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Recent conference appearances
On Saturday, September 4, Chris Kennedy participated in a workshop in Stuttgart on Dynamics in Semantics, Pragmatics and Logic, which was held to honor Professor Hans Kamp on the occasion of his 70th birthday. His presentation was called “Vagueness and Imprecision: Meaning and Use”. On Saturday, September 11, Peter Klecha presented his paper “Optional and…
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Summer conference activities
In Taipei later this month, Tommy Grano will be presenting “Explicit comparison to an implicit standard in Mandarin Chinese,” and Chris Kennedy will present “The composition of incremental change,” both at the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Morgan Sonderegger and Alan Yu will present “A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation” at the…