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Alejandro Paz, Ph.D. candidate for the joint degree in Anthropology and Linguistics, has won the annual prize given by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology for a graduate student paper. “The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor: Gossip, Evidentiality and Authority in the Perspective of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel”  will appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

A job well done for Alejandro! His paper will also be presented at the upcoming American Anthropological Society meeting.

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which will be in San Francisco from November 19 through 23, will include a paper given by Chicago’s own Erin Debenport.

Erin’s paper, “Private Notice: Negotiating Secrecy in Public Uses of a Pueblo Language,” is part of the excitingly titled panel “Privates and Counterprivates,” which will focus on the modern conceptualization of the ‘private’ sphere in a world of ever-expanding ‘publics.’ We expect to hear good things after the conference!

Just a reminder to the many who have already heard the exciting news, and a happy word of announcement to those who may not have:

You may have been hearing rumors for the last year or so that CLS is hatching a plan to get the conference proceedings online. Well, the day has finally come!!!

Right now, volumes 39-41 are available, and new issues will be added as they are published. We’ll start posting back issues starting with volume 38 at the end of next summer.

The papers are available at http://cls.metapress.com and institutional access for the University of Chicago has already been set up, effective immediately. You can also link to individual papers through Google Scholar. . . .

Enjoy!

CLS 44 and 45

The Department of Linguistics was pleased to host Georgetown University’s Paul Portner last Thursday at our inaugural colloquium of the 2008-2009 series. This week, we will be having Diane Brentari of Purdue University giving a talk on tracking phonological emergence in sign languages.

We eagerly anticipate the scheduled speakers for the Autumn colloquia and invite you to join us for the remaining sessions, which generally commence at 3:30 p.m.

October 23: Paul Portner, Georgetown University

Two Problems about Permission

October 30: Diane Brentari, Purdue University

When does a system become phonological? Grammatical regularities at the interfaces

November 4: Matthias Brenzinger, University of Cologne

Changing roles for African languages in the past, present, and future

*Note special date, time and place: 4-5:30pm, Harper 103

November 13: Duane Watson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

November 20: Luis López Carretero, University of Illinois at Chicago

December 4: Alicia Wassink, University of Washington,

The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence in Children

See you there!