Category: talks

  • Panel discussion on Language (In)Tolerance

    Breaking Grounds: Connecting the Americas Series on History, Culture & Language Forum/Panel on Language (In)Tolerance Tuesday, November 20, 6-8pm Library Lounge of Ida Noyes

  • Interdisciplinary Panel on Artificial Intelligence

    Are you interested in – What are intelligence and thought, and how can they be emulated? Where is current AI research heading? Will computers ever be able to truly model the mind? Will robots become our new overlords? The UofC ACM presents: An Interdisciplinary Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Related Fields Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:00pm…

  • Pauline Jacobsen at Semantics & Philosophy of Language Workshop

    Pauline Jacobson (Brown University) will talk about “What Ellipsis tells us about (Direct) Compositionality – and Vice Versa” on Friday, November 9th in Wieboldt 111 at the Semantics and Philosophy of Language Workshop.

  • 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.

  • Andrea Sims Colloquium

    The Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series presents Andrea D. Sims Northwestern University “When synchronic motivation disappears: On probabilities, paradigms, and processes of lexicalization” Thursday, November 1, 2007 Cobb 201, 3:30pm ABSTRACT In this paper I explore some of the conditions under which inflectional structures become lexicalized, and why they persist once established in the lexicon.…