Due to job talks this month, the 2009-2010 colloquium series has had a delayed winter-quarter start. For all those waiting in eager anticipation, colloquia will finally resume next week, Thursday, February 25, with a talk by UChicago’s Katherine Kinzler (Psychology). More on her lab’s research can be found here. As usual, we’ll begin at 3:30 in Cobb 201, followed by tea at 5:00 in the department lounge. See you there!
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Winter 2010 colloquia
The Department of Linguistics will have its first colloquium of the (new) decade in a few weeks. For now, you can content yourself with our colloquium schedule for Winter quarter 2010 (abstracts available soon):
- February 25: Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago
- March 4: Craige Roberts, Ohio State University
- March 11: Marcela Depiante, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
This is also a good time to remind everyone to hit up the various graduate workshops affiliated with our department. There’s something for everybody, including Semiotics: Culture in Context, Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy of Language, Workshop on Language and Cognition, and Workshop on Language Variation and Change, all of which have several talks scheduled for the coming weeks and months.
CK in HK
Last week, Chris Kennedy was out of the department—and the country—to give a four-part lecture series on “Vagueness and Comparison” (abstracts), kindly hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at Chinese University, Hong Kong.
Chris and his class at CUHK
Thanks for the photo, Chris!
Last LVC talk of the quarter today
Join us today at 3:30 in Harper 130 for the fifth and final talk of the Language Variation and Change Workshop. Kelly Maynard (Center for East European Russian/Eurasian Studies) will be giving her talk on “Balkan Sprachbund Features in Samsun Albanian” (abstract). Stick around afterwards for snacks, drinks, and hobnobbing.
Merchant talks
Jason Merchant has given several invited talks this fall, beginning in September and just wrapping up last week:
- Context and ellipsis. Invited colloquium talk. University College London. 11 November 2009.
- What price ellipsis? Invited talk. Workshop on ellipsis. Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. 9-10 November 2009.
- Context and types of ambiguity. Invited talk. Interdisciplinary symposium “Dimensions of ambiguity”. Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany. 5-7 November 2009.
- Inaudible syntax. With Lyn Frazier. Invited talk. Context and communication network; Leverhulme Foundation workshop series. San Francisco, 15 September 2009.
Follow the links above for more information on these events and on Jason’s presentations.