The Linguistics Department’s end-of-year barbecue will take place this Friday, June 11, from 1:00–3:00 p.m. on the Midway Plaisance, right outside our very own Classics building. Come enjoy hearty BBQ fare, celebrate the end of another academic year, enjoy the late-spring sunshine at the home of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and say your goodbyes to some of our departing friends.
Happy summer!
We’ll be on hiatus for the next few weeks, enjoying winter and its holidays (traditional and academic!).
Have a great one!
On October 8, our 2009-2010 Colloquium Series kicked off with a fascinating talk by Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley) on lexical type-shift from Proto-IE to Proto-Slavic. Today, the fall series continues with a talk by Maria Polinsky (Harvard), who will be speaking on “Ergativity, Again” (abstract here). Join us at 3:30 in Cobb 201, to be followed by department tea at 5:00.
The rest of the fall schedule:
November 5: James Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
November 19: Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago
At long last—the (ostensibly) comprehensive list of U. Chicago representation presenting at LSA 2010:
Max Bane: “A Combinatoric Model of Variation in the English Dative Alternation”
Matthew Carlson, Colleen Balukas, Chip Gerfen (Psychology): “Suffix productivity and stem allomorph markedness in Spanish derivations with alternating diphthongs”
Andrew Dombrowski (Slavic & Linguistics): “Vowel Harmony Loss in West Rumelian Turkish”
James Kirby: “The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization”
Peter Klecha: “Context Dependence in English Futures”
Yaron McNabb: “Apparent Pharyngealization in French Loanwords in Moroccan Arabic”
Jason Riggle and Max Bane: “Choosing the right constraints (and the right theory of how they interact)”
Osamu Sawada: “The multidimensionality of the Japanese minimizers sukoshi/chotto ‘a little’”
Morgan Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi (Computer Science): “Combining data and mathematical models to study change: An application to an English stress shift”
Chris Straughn: “Grammaticalization without Grammaticalization: The Case of Uzbek Complementation” (poster)
Additionally, Jerry Sadock will be commenting on the talk by Alana Johns at the SSILA symposium on derivational morphology, while Lenore Grenoble (Slavic) co-organized a session with Doug Whalen on findings from targeted work on endangered languages. The session will lead off with their talk, “Leveraging small grants for maximum linguistic discovery: The Endangered Language Fund experience,” on Sunday morning.
Finally, Nassira Nicola‘s organized session, entitled “Interdisciplinarity and Current Trends in Undergraduate Linguistics Education,” was also accepted to the LSA. Very exciting!
Congrats to all of you, and enjoy Baltimore in January!
For the first time in its nine-year history, the annual meeting of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics will be hosted stateside, and the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics is proud to be the first American host for this important gathering!
The conference will take place on campus in the International House (on 59th Street) from October 29-31. Registration is free for ALL students, and talks (and Halloween candy!) should be plentiful.
Among the in-house presentations at ICGL are the following:
Eleni Staraki: Temporal anchoring in the DP: the case of na
Suwon Yoon: Metalinguistic comparatives from Greek to Korean
Anastasia Giannakidou & Stella Grylla: Intonation in Greek n-words
Jason Merchant: Ενας ψηλότερός της άντρας: Implications of clitic standards of comparison in Greek