Category: talks
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GIS and sociolinguistics training sessions
Following on several highly informative sessions on using transcription interfaces, the Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Todd Schuble, our local expert on spatial analysis software (GIS), will be offering two sessions that will introduce us to the possibilities of linking linguistic and related social data to locationally coded databases. Many databases of…
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do Couto’s Talk on Monday
Professor Hildo do Couto (University of Brasilia) will be giving a special lecture on “Stress patterns and syllable structure in Brazilian Portuguese” on Monday, May 21, 3:00 – 5:20 PM, in Cobb 116. Professor do Couto is a Tinker fellow in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Linguistics this spring quarter.…
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Colloquium by Sadock this Thursday
Jerry Sadock will give a colloquium on Thursday, May 17, in Harper 130 at 3:30pm. The title of his talk is “English Tense and the Auxiliary System.”
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COMPOSITIONALITY LECTURE ON WEDNESDAY
On Wednesday, Richard Heck (Brown) is giving the lecture “What is Compositionality?” as part of a workshop series on 20th-century British philosophy. The talk will be at 4:30 at the Franke Institute.
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GUEST LECTURE IN SEMANTICS: URTZI ETXEBERRIA
This Wednesday there will be a guest lecture in Prof. Giannakidou’s Semantics 2 class, by Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS/University of the Basque Country). Urtzi will talk about the structure of quantificational phrases, and will examine a wide array of languages from Basque to Greek to Salish. The title of the talk is: “On how some languages…