Category: talks
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Tom Griffiths at the Language and Cognition Workshop
Tom Griffiths (Berkeley) will be speaking at the Language and Cognition Workshop on Friday, May 2, in Green Hall, Room 104 at 4:00pm.
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Luis Vicente LingLunch on April 23
Please mark your calendars for a syntax LingLunch talk by Luis Vicente (PhD Leiden, currently postdoc at UCSC) on Wed April 23 from 11am-12pm in the Lounge. “Deriving word order variation in Basque through prosody” Basque scholars agree that the word order of the language is constrained by discourse (topic/focus) factors. Traditionally, this intuition has…
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Enoch Aboh Colloquium on Friday
There will be a special colloquium next Friday from Enoch Aboh of the University of Amsterdam and MIT. The title of the talk is “A Typology of Adpositions” and you can find the abstract here: http://clml.uchicago.edu/svn/filedetails.php?repname=CLML+Repository&path=%2FPapers%2FPrePostpositionsChicago.pdf The talk will be held at the normal colloquium time in the normal colloquium location (3:30 in the CSL)
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Erin Debenport at the Semiotics Workshop
The Semiotics Workshop: Culture in Context & Workshop on US Locations are pleased to announce: “Language Use at Sandia Pueblo: Ideologies, Revitalization and Institutionalization” Erin Debenport Ph.D. Candidate Linguistics Discussants: Elise Kramer & Gabe Tusinski (Anthropology) Tuesday March 11th (Note, this workshop is on a Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Haskell Hall, Room Mezz 102 The paper…
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Melchert Lecture on Thursday
The Department of Near Eastern languages and Civilizations and The Oriental Institute present: The Rise of Hittite Literacy: A Third Way H. Craig Melchert Professor of Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:00 noon The LaSalle Banks Room – Oriental Institute