Category: visits

  • Talk by Wagner on May 6

    Departmental Colloquium Information Structure Effects on Prosody: English vs. French Michael Wagner McGill University Cobb 201 2:30-4pm *NOTE NEW TIME* ABSTRACT: Germanic and Romance languages differ in how prosody is affected by information structure.  Ladd (2008), e.g., observes contrasts between English and Italian that reveal differences in how argument structure and  information structure affect prosody.…

  • Pesetsky here next week

    David Pesetsky (MIT) will be on campus next week on Thursday, March 4. He’ll give a talk on “Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories” (abstract below) at 10:30 a.m. He is also giving a different talk on islands (abstract here) at the University of Illinois at Chicago the following day. Abstract (for U. of C. talk) Sometimes it…

  • Kratzer on campus Friday

    This Friday, June 5, the Workshop on Philosophy of Language and Semantics, co-sponsored by the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, will be hosting Angelika Kratzer from UMass Amherst. Her talk will be in Cobb 110 from 1-3 p.m. Please join us!

  • Public conversation with Lila Gleitman on May 11

    The second in a series of public conversations entitled Lives in Linguistics Lila Gleitman Professor   Rutgers University   Monday, 11 May 2009 4 pm Franke Institute for the Humanities Regenstein Library The University of Chicago

  • Nicholas Ostler lecture on May 12

    “The Jungle is Neutral: Newcomer Languages Face New Media” Nicholas Ostler, President, Foundation for Endangered Languages Tuesday, May 12 4:00-5:30 pm with reception to follow at Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Co-sponsored by the Big Problems program in the College and the Franke Institute for the Humanities Nicholas Ostler is…