Category: faculty
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Friedman: here, there, everywhere
While in Macedonia this year on Fulbright-Hays and Guggenheim grants, Slavic linguistics professor Victor Friedman has still managed to faithfully update us on his prolific activities abroad. Here’s what he’s been doing: Recently published articles: “Turkish Presents in Romani Dialects.” Turcological Letters to Bernt Brendemoen (Festschrift), ed. by É. Csató & al. Oslo: Insitute for Comparative research in…
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Upcoming talks for Dahlstrom and Kirby
This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July. James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd…
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Jerry Sadock to be interviewed
The department’s own Jerry Sadock will be the first interviewee in a series of videotaped “Lives in Linguistics,” to be taped on April 21 in the Karen Landahl Center at 3:15. Friends are welcome to attend! We’ll be having two other guests in May: Catherine Chvany, on May 5, and Lila Gleitman on May 11, both…
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James D. McCawley, 1938 – 1999
Ten years ago today our dear colleague Jim McCawley died, very unexpectedly, of a heart attack. For those who have more recently joined the Department of Linguistics at Chicago, you might be interested in the memorial page for Jim. Those who were fortunate enough to know him still miss him very much. We remember Jim…
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Alrenga to be Assistant Professor at Boston University
Post-doc Pete Alrenga has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in semantics at Boston University. Congratulations, Pete!