Prof. Giannakidou Announced as 10th Annual PLA Symposium Keynote Speaker

The Purdue Linguistics Association will be hosting its 10th Annual Symposium on April 10th and 11th. They are a regional symposium that highlights the work of exceptional undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate linguists. In addition to presentations from students representing a diversity of research topics in linguistics, they will have a special session titled ‘Scalar and Non-scalar Negative Polarity Items: Prosody, Syntax, and Semantics’ presented by Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou of the University of Chicago. Please visit their website [pla.purdue.org/symposium] for a detailed program.

Please feel free to email plasymposium@gmail.com with any questions.

Dates: April 10th – 11th
Location: Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Chicago Linguists at WCCFL 33

WCCFL is just around the corner and two Chicagoans will be presenting their work there:

  • Andrea Beltrama (U of Chicago). Flat-out metalinguistic. Extreme degree modification as speaker’s preference evaluation
  • Julian Grove (U of Chicago). Semantic Layers in DP

Way to go!

Congratulations, Tim!

Tim Grinsell has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2015-16 to complete his doctoral dissertation “Semantic Indecision.” Well done, Tim!