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Conference on Gesture, Sign and Language
We invite you to a conference inaugurating the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago. The conference, which is jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities, will be held on March 8-9, 2013, in Breasted Hall in the Oriental Institute (see the attached poster and schedule or the…
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Baglini and Francez at WCCFL 31
Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez presented at WCCFL 31 recently: Rebekah Baglini. Deriving target and resultant states Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez. The implications of managing Our alum, Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) was there as well!
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Chicagoans head to BLS
Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Congratulations to all! Dorothea Hoffmann: Mapping words and mapping worlds: Frames of Reference in MalakMalak Martina Martinovic: The topic-comment structure in copular sentences: evidence from Wolof Chieu Nguyen: Quantification in the left periphery: the duality of universal quantification and contrastive…
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Cisneros co-authored journal publishing
Congratulations to Carlos Cisneros for having a co-authored paper published in a journal recently! Ivano Caponigro, Harold Torrence, Carlos Cisneros. (2013). “Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages”. International Jounal of American Linguistics 79(1): 61 – 96.
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NSF grants to three faculty
Diane Brentari has been awarded a five-year grant by the National Science Foundation for her project “The Typology of Handshape: Gesture, Homesign, and Sign Language“. Chris Kennedy and Ming Xiang have been awarded a three-year grant by the NSF for their project “Meaning in Context“. Congratulations!
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