Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Alumni update: Elaine and Alex Francis
A huge congratulation to Elaine J. Francis (Ph.D. 1999), who has recently been promoted to associate professor with tenure at Purdue University in Indiana, where she teaches in the English Department and the graduate Linguistics Program. For her 1999 dissertation Variation within Lexical Categories, she worked with advisor Salikoko Mufwene and committee members Amy Dahlstrom,…
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Paz dissertation defense
Alejandro I. Paz (joint Anthro/Ling) will be defending his dissertation next Thursday, April 29 at 12:30 p.m. in Haskell 101. Alejandro’s dissertation is entitled “Discursive Transformation: The Emergence of Ethnolinguistic Identity Among Latin American Labor Migrants and Their Children In Israel” (abstract available in Haskell 119). Of course, attendance is open to faculty and students. Best…
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Illinois Speech Day
Some readers may want to mark their respective calendars: Illinois Speech Day, a daylong meeting consisting of presentations and discussion on the theme of computational models of speech, will be happening in just a few weeks. Moreover, it’s happening a convenient two blocks or so away from campus, and is correspondingly full of U of C…
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Conferences for Grinsell
Second-year grad student Tim Grinsell will be presenting at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 19) at the University of Maryland this weekend. His talk will be on “Lithuanian modal comparatives: implications for the syntax and semantics of comparison in Slavic” (abstract here). You’ll also catch Tim at this year’s Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE3)…
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CLS 46 is underway
The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society begins TODAY and runs through Saturday evening (culminating in our world-renowed CLS banquet). A full program can be found here. U. Chicago participants include two invited speakers, the illustrious John Goldsmith (Main Session) and Jason Riggle (Probabilistic Theories of Grammar), as well as the following presenters: Eleni…
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