John Goldsmith and Jerry Sadock were elected Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America. The Fellows program was established in 2005 to recognize extraordinary contributions and service to the discipline and the Society. There will be a recognition ceremony for the 2008 Fellows immediately before the Presidential Address at the LSA meeting on Saturday, January 5 at the Palmer House in Chicago. Congratulations, Jerry and John! This is a well-deserved recognition!
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Alan Yu’s Book Published
Alan Yu‘s new book, A Natural History of Infixation, has been published by the Oxford University Press, in their Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics series.
Other books published in that series include Jason Merchant‘s The Syntax of Silence: Slucing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis!
Susan Goldin-Meadow at the Workshop on Language and Cognition
Susan Goldin-Meadow (U. Chicago, Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor) will talk about “Gesture’s Role in Creating and Learning Language” at the Workshop on Language and Cognition on Friday, November 9 at 4pm in Green Hall, Room 104.
Chris Kennedy at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Chris Kennedy will be an expert panelist in a post-performance panel discussion of two short plays, written by Don DeLillo and Tanya Saracho, and staged as part of this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival. The topic of the Festival this year is ‘The Climate of Concern’, and all of the events take on the issue of global environmental and ecological disruption. For more info, visit http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=1950&sec=adult.
LSA and SSILA acceptances
A huge number of University of Chicago linguists will be presenting at the LSA and SSILA meetings on January 3-6, 2008. Presenters at the LSA include:
- Nikki Adams
- Lobke Aelbrecht (visiting grad student during winter quarter)
- Maximilian Bane
- Jacqueline Bunting
- Amy Franklin
- Victor Friedman
- Anastasia Giannakidou
- Susan Goldin-Meadow
- James Kirby
- Yaron McNabb
- Jason Riggle
- Osamu Sawada
- Jerrold M Sadock
- Kjersti Stensrud
- John Sylak
- Christina Weaver
- Suwon Yoon
Besides presentations during the regular sessions, John Goldsmith will deliver one of the plenary lectures and Salikoko Mufwene and Susan Goldin-Meadow will be the speakers in an organized session, entitled ‘Language in Light of Evolution’.
Presenters at SSILA (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas) are as follows:
- John Boyle (recent PhD)
- Amy Dahlstrom
- Erin Debenport
- John Lucy (Human Development)
- Patrick Midtlyng
- Eduardo Ribeiro
- Alan Yu