Category: talks

  • Linglunch on April 11

    Linglunch will feature two presentations on Wednesday, April 11 at noon down in the Landahl Center: 12.00 Andrea Beltrama – Italian-issimo: intensification at the semantic/pragmatics interface 12.30 Julia Thomas and Tim Grinsell – ‘Finna’ as a Socially Meaningful Quasi-Modal in African American English

  • Nunberg Colloquium on November 3

    Geoffrey Nunberg (School of Information, UC Berkeley) will give a colloquium talk titled “On Having a Word for It” on Thursday, November 3, 3.30 pm at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Abstract: What does it signify that a language “has a word for” such-and-such a notion? For the general public, it sheds light on…

  • Meet the visitors

    Several scholars are visiting the department this quarter. Please give them a warm Chicago welcome! Elizaveta Bylinina (Lisa Bylinina) will spend this quarter in Chicago as a visiting student. She is  in a project on degree semantics in Utrecht Institute of Linguistics in Holland, but spend most of the time in Moscow with her family.…

  • 2010-11 colloquia

    Another year, another colloquium series: today kicks off our fantastic 2010-2011 lineup. Join us for Annika Herrmann’s talk (link to abstract found below) at 3:30 p.m. in Cobb 201; all are invited to Tea immediately following in the department lounge. Schedule for Autumn quarter October 7: Annika Herrmann, University of Göttingen The split nature of…

  • Last LCC workshop of the year

    The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computation (along with our other graduate workshops, Language Variation and Change and Semantics and Philosophy of Language) is wrapping up another academic year. Please join us this Friday at a special time for the final LCC talk of the year, presented by the U. of C.’s James Kirby. He will be…