Category: visits

  • Florian Jaeger visiting next week

    T. Florian Jaeger (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Univ. of Rochester) will be visiting next Thursday and Friday, May 7-8. He will be giving a talk in the Language, Cognition and Computation Workshop (abstract to come) on Friday at 3:30 in the Karen Landahl Center. He will also be giving two statistics tutorials: One (Thursday) on…

  • Two talks this Friday

    Mark your calendars – the Karen Landahl Center for Linguistics Research will be the site of two exciting linguistics talks this Friday, December 5. Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel/NYU) will be visiting the department to present some of his recent work. Van Craenenbroeck’s “What does silence look like? On the unpronounced syntax of sluicing,” in…

  • Coming soon: Chicago mini-workshop on Basque linguistics

    The department is proud to announce the first Chicago Mini-Workshop on Basque Linguistics will be held on Monday, October 27. The program will include talks by Ricardo Etxepare of the University of the Basque Country on “Ways of building syntactic focus in Spanish and Basque”;  U of C’s Anastasia Giannokodou on “Contextual domain restriction across languages”;…

  • Public screening of “The Linguists” on May 9

    A public screening of “The Linguists” will take place at the Franke Institute on Friday, May 9, at 2:30pm. The film will be followed by a discussion with David Harrison. All are welcome!

  • Luis Vicente LingLunch on April 23

    Please mark your calendars for a syntax LingLunch talk by Luis Vicente (PhD Leiden, currently postdoc at UCSC) on Wed April 23 from 11am-12pm in the Lounge. “Deriving word order variation in Basque through prosody” Basque scholars agree that the word order of the language is constrained by discourse (topic/focus) factors. Traditionally, this intuition has…